In common with the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) sector, Consumer Electronics (CE) companies utilize promotional, incentive and rebate programs for direct customers, indirect customers and for consumers. However CE companies generally sell through channel partner and OEM arrangements where customer dynamics frequently change as a result of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.

Further complicating the situation, product life cycles are often short when compared to other CPG verticals and price changes to large product portfolios are likely to be frequent, requiring the sales channel to be “price protected”.

Trade+ for Dynamics AX has special additional functionality and processes for High Tech Consumer Electronic industries enabling:

• Versatile management of contract and complex pricing agreements
• Electronic loading of required channel partner supplied data such as inventories, shipment claims and price protection claims.
• Automated validation and auto correction of shipment claims, governed by partner shipment claim rules, along with exception based claim viewing and correction processes
• Automated validation of price protection claims with special exception based viewing and correction processes.
• Special routines to accrue for consumer rebates and price protections.

With the extended pool of integrated data that the additional functionality for Consumer Electronics provides, an organisation can ensure that all it’s staff can now enjoy expanded access to the key benefits of Trade+ for Dynamics AX, namely:

• Proper and accurate financial and revenue tracking, analysis and reporting.
• Better and more productive channel partner and consumer relationships.
• Reduced over-payments due to claim errors and duplicates.
• Reduced administration costs.
• Reduced regulatory compliance costs.
• Opportunities to increase sales, margins and market share.