mpromo: end-to-end trade promotion management
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Today's fast paced business environment requires the sales team to have information at their
fingertips, so they can make critical business decisions on-the-go. Mobilizing Trade Promotion
Management (TPM) by allowing access to Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems
accelerates decision making, increases productivity and enhances customer service.
mPromo: end-to-end tradepromotion management
Business challenges Promotion negotiations based on outdated or irrelevant
data between the supplier sales team and retail
outlet representatives Inability to assess promotion performance, optimize and
evaluate with what-if analysis Difficulty in tracking promotion execution compliance at
the store level
Offline compliance check and zero-in on pending
promotions is error prone and inapt No single platform available, to view the entire promotion
event calendar across different stores or locations in the
account portfolio
Our solutionmPromo is a SAP mobile platform based solution that
empowers field personnel with tools to plan, execute and
track trade promotion events effectively. The power of
mobility enables instant decision making, which helps to
plan and negotiate promotion events with customers.
mPromo also executes a what-if analysis, tracking promotion
compliance and sends feedback to management with access
to SAP CRM.
This mobile application, with one view of the event calendar
across different stores in the account portfolio, provides a
one stop utility for account managers, field sales and
retailers during promotion planning, analysis, formalization
and finalization through compliance tracking. The inherent
challenges in offline conversations and compliance tracking
are overcome with this solution. Promotion event discussions
will be more information backed with promotion portfolio
analysis which can be performed with what-if.
A competitive edgemPromo is a highly intuitive app, presenting the user with
the necessary information to manage trade promotions.
It offers:
A consistent and holistic view of executed, planned and
on-going events, which helps to discuss and firm up
promotions or planned promotions
An ability to modify events and view modified calendar
Visual depiction and analysis of promotion
performance, with information and outcome-based
discussions to finalize promotion events
Promotion portfolio analysis, by facilitating negotiation
with reference to promotion performance, using a quick
what-if analysis on modified promotions
Map-based search: Narrows down to required store in a
particular location
The facility to capture promotion compliance feedback
by field sales. This further helps to zero in on
pending compliances
Data access control in the app, based on user mapping
and roles
Industry recognitionmPromo won the first prize at the recently held SAP TechEd
2013 conference held in Las Vegas on 23, October 2013.
Contesting under the ‘Retail Industry’, mPromo made it to
the finals after being hand-picked by juries consisting of
external specialists and SAP experts.
mPromo also won first runners-up at SAP Mobile App
Partners Program Contest 2012, felicitated at SAP TechEd
2012 held at Bangalore.
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