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Implementing A Closed-Loop Pricing System
A Playbook For Planning & Controlling P&L Scenarios
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Implementing A Closed-Loop Pricing System
A Playbook For Planning & Controlling P&L Scenarios
Dick Sobel, Managing Director
The Pricing Analytic Group
www.pricing-analytic.com
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Before We Begin
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Today’s Speaker
Richard Sobel
Managing Director
The Pricing Analytic Group
With 17 years of direct pricing experience, Dick offers expertise in pricing analytics,
optimization, realization and strategy. He has directed Stage-Gate® new-product
development programs, value based and conjoint pricing engagements and has
developed closed-loop pricing strategies incorporating planning and controlling P&L
scenarios.
Dick’s distinguished career at Emerson Process Management, a business unit of
Emerson, included senior leadership positions in pricing, global marketing, S&OP
facilitation, product marketing, finance and cross-functional efforts. He was an early
proponent of pricing strategy within the Emerson group of companies, where he
developed, presented and implemented three- to five-year pricing plans that achieved
significant price realization and profit improvement.
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Implementing A Closed-Loop Pricing System
A Playbook For Planning & Controlling P&L Scenarios
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Starts With Connecting Price Actions To The P&L
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P&L
Financial Statements
KPI
Contribution Margin Price Realization
Material Cost Changes Volume & Mix Changes
Pareto Analysis
Transactions Forecasting
Price Actions
What Is Going On?
• Pricing Strategy in Use
• Price Audit
Making Sense Of The Data • Organize & Quantify
• Segmentation
Data Analysis • Quantitative & Qualitative
• Pricing Tools
Linking Results To Financials • Monitor Performance
• Create & Update Plans
Price Impact On Operating Profit
• Model P&L Scenarios
• Management Information Reporting
P&L Pyramid
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And Then Linking Results To How A Company
Financially Accounts For Its Business
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Data Analysis
Key Performance
Indicators
Financial Statements
& P&L
Qurter Ending:
June 2012
Percent Gross
Margin
Percent Discount
from List
Percent Price
Realization
Percent change
in List Price
Price
Realization
Dollars ($000)
Direct
Distributor
Subsidiary
New Products
+0.3%
(2.0%)
($2)
• Transactional Analysis
• Limit Of Authority
• Contribution Margin
• Price Realization
• Financial Statements
• P&L
• Key Performance Dashboard
• P&L Scenarios
• Spreadsheet Tools
• Analytic Pricing Software
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That Promotes Planning & Predicting P&L Scenarios
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Planned
Aggregate
Increase
Percent
Realized
Profit
Improvement
($000)
Percent
OP Profit
Gain
2% 1.4 % $1,450 14.5%
3% 1.9% $1,900 19.0%
4% 2.4 % $2,400 24.0%
For each $100MM Sales @ 10% OP
• Ensuring Planned Increases - Get Price Gain
• Linking Key Performance Indicators To Price Plan
• Implementing Mid-Course Corrections As Market &
Competitive Conditions Change
Not All SKU’s Get Increases
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And Tying Pricing Strategy To Closed-Loop Control
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P&L Scenarios
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What Are The Playbook Objectives?
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1. Building transactional databases and developing price
forecasting models
2. Recognizing and acting upon the factors that determine
average selling price
3. Performing SKU contribution margin analysis for price
realization, cost reduction and changes due to volume & mix
4. Utilizing Key Performance Indicator dashboards to forecast,
measure and monitor profitability drivers
5. Linking the pricing process to the P&L and closing the pricing
loop
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Start By Developing A Price Realization Forecast
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• Product SKU
• Sales & Units
• Average Discount From List
• % Gross Margin
• Average Selling Price
History
• % List Price Change
• Proposed Discount From List
• Material Cost Changes Inputs
• $ Price Realization
• % Price Realization
• Cost Reduction
• % Gross Margin
• Volume
Forecast
Building Transactional Databases And Developing Price Forecasting Models
Price Forecasting
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Then Maximizing The Average Selling Price
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List Price Management
Transactional Discounting
Waterfall
Limit of Authority
Channel Mix
Market Segmentation
Pricing Tools
Pareto Analysis
Contribution Margin
Price Realization
Average
Selling Price
Recognizing And Acting Upon The Factors That Determine Average Selling Price
Pricing Leaks
Product - Feature
Mix
Price Setting
Average Selling Price
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Limiting Uncontrolled Discounting 0
10%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45
%
50
%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
0
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10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
Cum
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tive
%
% Discount from List
[Average Discount From List]
Recognizing And Acting Upon The Factors That Determine Average Selling Price
Limit of Authority Transactional Discounting
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Source: McKinsey & Company
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Ensuring Pricing Leaks Are Plugged
Recognizing And Acting Upon The Factors That Determine Average Selling Price
Transactional Discounting
Waterfall
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Heavy Industry
Light Industry
Academic Projects Government OEM Institutional
Market Segmentation $30M
$20M
$10M
$0M
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Optimizing Market Segments With Pricing Bands
Sales ASP = 100
ASP Price Band
• ASP Varies By Segment
• Versioning To Markets
• Market Segmentation Impacts Margin
• Tightening Price Band
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Case History Industrial Automation Manufacturer Pruning Legacy Products With List
Price Increases Of From 3- 7%
• Segment By Sales Channel
• Consolidate & Tabulate SKUs For A Comparable Time Frame
• Prioritize & Rank
• Check For Price Sensitivity & Elasticity
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Case History Continued Contribution Margin Analysis – Product Pruning
Previous ($000) Material Volume - Current
Products Year $GM Price Cost Mix Year $GM
A $705 $141 $1 -$110 $735
B $424 $57 $3 $47 $525
C $315 $55 $24 -$123 $223
D $356 $36 -$14 $36 $442
E $797 $63 $8 -$315 $536
F $463 -$17 $5 -$198 $243
G $510 $49 $6 -$222 $331
H $94 $81 $3 -$50 $123
I $275 $5 $1 -$257 $22
J $26 -$2 $1 $9 $32
Totals $3,966 $468 $39 -$1,184 $3,211
40.2% 43.1%
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• SKU Contribution Margin Analysis Calculates Price Realization
• $468K Price Flows To Financial Statement
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40.2%
2.7%
0.6%
43.1%
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Percent Gross Profit
-0.4%
Sales
($000) $9,860 $7,454
Gross
Margin
($000)
$3,966 $468 ($1184) $39
$3,211
+ + - =
1% Pt. = $173K
1% Pt. = $98K
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Bridging Changes In Gross Margin
Overall GM % PT
Impact With Sales
Volume Reduction
Case History Continued
Change In Gross
Margin Percentage
Change in Gross
Margin Dollars
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Performance v. Objective: Key Performance Indicator Dashboard
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Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Dashboard Stakeholder Measuring, Controlling & Monitoring Pricing Actions
• Results
• Financial Statements
• Forecast
• Data Analysis
Stakeholders
• Ensuring Planned Increases Get Price Gain
• Linking Key Performance Indicators To Price Plan
• Quantitative Improvements Flow To The P&L
• Implementing Course Corrections As Market & Competitive
Conditions Change
Qurter Ending:
June 2012
Percent Gross
Margin
Percent Discount
from List
Percent Price
Realization
Percent change
in List Price
Price
Realization
Dollars ($000)
Direct
Distributor
Subsidiary
New Products
+0.3%
(2.0%)
($2)
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Summary: Plan & Control Your Pricing Actions…
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P&L Includes A
Price Entry Tied To
Planning Model
Qurter Ending:
June 2012
Percent Gross
Margin
Percent Discount
from List
Percent Price
Realization
Percent change
in List Price
Price
Realization
Dollars ($000)
Direct
Distributor
Subsidiary
New Products
+0.3%
(2.0%)
($2)
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Questions And Comments
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The Pricing Analytic Group
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Dick Sobel, Managing Director
The Pricing Analytic Group
The Pricing Analytic Group is led by Dick Sobel, Managing Director.
He is a partner with the Strategic Pricing Management Group (SPMG) and a
consultant for PricePoint Partners, providing pricing analytics, training, strategy,
optimization, and realization consulting services to B2B clients achieving
profitable growth.
Our pricing consultants provide analytic tools and evaluate price momentum
throughout the cash cycle.
We improve pricing for incumbent and new products with:
• Value based pricing & selling principles
• Pricing audits
• Developing effective pricing strategies
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 330-958-4036
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