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  1. Executing Prices (Quoting)

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titleDive Deeper: Executing Prices (Quoting)

Price Execution in a Nutshell

Executing pricing involves setting list prices, determining pocket prices, and defining behaviors to incentivize through discounts and rebates. The challenge is ensuring effective implementation by sales teams without breakdowns. A robust pricing process includes knowing what to do, acquiring skills and permissions, ensuring sustainability, and demonstrating progress. Understanding who makes pricing decisions and where is crucial for automating pricing processes effectively. Identifying key decision-makers and roles streamlines pricing processes and optimizes decision-making, tailoring pricing strategies to different contexts for successful implementation.

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The Right Approach to Executing Prices

When it comes to executing pricing strategies, the focus shifts to setting list prices, establishing pocket prices, and defining behaviors that align with desired incentives for discounts and rebates. The challenge lies in ensuring that these strategies are effectively implemented by sales teams without encountering breakdowns.

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 Incorporating a deal pricing screen as done in Pricefx, integrated with a quote configurator can guide sales teams towards appropriate pricing decisions, emphasizing the importance of steering sales towards the right pricing rather than allowing independent price interpretations.

A robust pricing process involves understanding what actions need to be taken, acquiring the necessary skills and permissions, ensuring sustainability, and demonstrating progress to stakeholders. It is essential to grasp which pricing decisions are made by whom and where within the organization to automate pricing decision processes effectively.

Identifying key decision-makers and their roles within the pricing structure is critical for streamlining pricing processes and optimizing decision-making. By clarifying roles and responsibilities, companies can tailor pricing strategies to regional variations and organizational needs, ensuring efficient pricing management aligned with market contexts.

 

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Please complete the following quiz as a knowledge refresh of this Pricing Concepts 101 content: Pricing Concepts 101