Pricing consulting
Our Pricing Governance Process (PGP) consists of two phases:
Designing the pricing strategy through the initial strategic configuration of an analytical tool, and
Operating the pricing platform to make day-to-day pricing decisions (to learn more, click here).
During the initial configuration of our platform, your business’s new pricing strategy is designed. The scope is fully modular and tailored to your business’s specific needs:
Alignment
Initial assessment of your business’s pricing strategy to determine the scope of the consulting process.
Education and training of the executive team to align concepts and establish a common language.
Portfolio analysis
Competitive analysis to ensure consistency between overall price levels and competitive positioning.
Market segmentation to identify groups of customers with common consumption occasions and needs.
Product development that meets the needs of each target segment, based on the attributes they value.
Value maps to calculate solution prices, based on the price-value relationship of market alternatives.
List price menu by product/service to proactively and transparently manage the portfolio.
Price elasticity analysis to project the volume impact generated by price changes.
Portfolio review to adjust current prices, eliminate redundant offerings, and launch new solutions.
Incremental analysis (revenues and costs) to ensure the profitability of the new portfolio and maximize its competitiveness.
Customers analysis
Customers typification and definition of the criteria they must meet to qualify for discounts.
Commercial discounts calculation based on the expected profitability per customer and portfolio turnover.
Discounts menu to ensure a transparent and proactive relationship with distributors or direct customers.
Customers review to improve competitiveness with key clients and avoid leaving money on the table.
Value communication
Quantitative tools to be used as a sales argument for the most rational customers.
Sales scripts to manage all types of customers—price-focused, value-focused, relationship-focused, and convenience-focused.
Deployment
Hypothesis validation to confirm the assumptions defined during the initial strategic configuration.
Fine tuning of the platform's parameters based on market research results.
Change management to ensure proper implementation of the tools and suggested changes.
Ongoing follow-up and support to address questions throughout the implementation process.
Initial strategic configuration
Platform operation
Our platform enables autonomous management of your business’s pricing strategy, allowing you to make concrete and profitable day-to-day decisions. Each time it is updated, it provides the optimal price for each solution in the portfolio and the recommended commercial conditions for each customer. Additionally, it projects the financial results of closing the identified gaps.
With PGP, your business can easily identify:
Low-priced solutions where there is an opportunity to improve margins,
Overpriced solutions that put your portfolio’s competitiveness at risk,
Opportunities to launch new solutions to serve new customer segments,
Opportunities to streamline the portfolio by removing redundant solutions that don’t create value,
Over-rewarded customers who could damage market prices, and
Under-rewarded customers who might stop buying your solutions.
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FAQs
What does a typical pricing consulting project include?
The scope of our pricing consulting process is modular and tailored to your business’s specific needs. The five modules are:
Alignment, where we conduct an initial diagnosis and train the leadership team on pricing and revenue growth management concepts.
Portfolio Analysis, where we design the list price strategy for each solution your business sells.
Customer Analysis, to design the discount structure available to your customers, applied to your list prices.
Value Communication, where we develop sales scripts and quantitative tools that enable your sales force to increase customers’ willingness to pay.
Deployment, during the first two calendar months to validate hypotheses in the field and provide support to your team.
In which industries do you have pricing experience?
Since 2007, we have worked across multiple industries and sectors. Our methodology applies to businesses that sell products and services in both consumer (B2C) and industrial (B2B) markets.
What benefits can be expected from pricing consulting?
Through margin improvement, recovery of lost sales, and the launch of new solutions, our clients typically increase their gross contribution by 3% to 15% per year*.
* Refers to an absolute increase in gross contribution, not margin percentage points.
How is the impact of the consulting measured?
The primary outcome metric in a pricing management process is the increase in gross contribution. To ensure objective measurement, we compare the financial results of products/customers where pricing and discount adjustments were implemented against those where recommendations were not applied. Other process indicators include incremental changes in units sold, net revenue, margins, etc.
How long does a typical project take?
Depending on the modules included in the project scope, the initial strategic configuration phase (consulting) takes between 8 and 24 weeks.