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How PROS optimized pricing helped this process monitoring manufacturer rapidly expand margins

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BEFORE WITH PROS OUTCOME PRO FIT A B LE G RO W T H The company used PROS pricing solutions to: • Develop pricing methodologies based on continuously changing factors — including global pricing team targets, market profitability, and currency — that could be continuously monitored and tracked • Create a multilevel approval workflow to ensure that all submitted prices are reviewed and approved by 2 levels of authority quickly • Deliver prices for over 40,000 products across 85 geographies to corresponding destination ERP systems in a complex IT environment This process monitoring manufacturer needed to move away from its spreadsheet - based pricing strategy to a streamlined digital solution. • Pricing teams across the globe spent inordinate amounts of time maintaining price lists on hundreds of spreadsheets that were not always accurate. • The disparate and not always up - to - date pricing system caused inconsistent quoting and margin leakage. • The lack of a single pricing solution for all branches made the system difficult to audit and approval processes easy to circumvent. $5 - 6M in pricing improvements After the first 28 days of implementation, the company realized significant expansion in margins through pricing improvements. 40% time - to - market improvement Automated workflows and pricing method formulas from PROS delivered significant value in the first month. Cataloged 40,000 prices Using PROS, the manufacturer met its cataloging goal in a matter of weeks rather than months. Increased efficiency PROS delivered consistency and repeatability of pricing processes and ensured all users had access to updated price lists. How PROS optimized pricing helped this process monitoring manufacturer rapidly expand margins Company description: International engineering technology company Website: Headquarters: Number of employees: 50,000 - 150,000 Founded: Industry: Manufacturing Revenue: $ 1 - 3 billion PRO S SM A RT PO M

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