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Specialty chemicals manufacturer recovers $1M a month in margin leakage with PROS

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• Algorithmic pricing guidance offered recommendations based on real - time market realities. • Sales representatives gained greater visibility into leakage. • The PROS Pricing Discipline Index allowed them to accurately track and measure their pricing improvement. Perstorp's pricing practices were inconsistent and slow, causing significant margin leakage and making it difficult to keep up with increasingly numerous competitors. • Between 2009 and 2013, the company's EBITDA had only grown by 1%, indicating that margin attainment and earnings were lagging even while revenue grew by 31% in the same period. • Updating prices to reflect the fluctuating costs of raw materials and freighting was too time - consuming. • The team lacked the ability to track their sales reps' pricing improvement and ensure consistency in their execution. Website: https://www.perstorp.com/ Headquarters: Malmö, Sweden Number of employees: 1,350 Founded: 1881 Industry: Manufacturing Revenue: $540 million BEFORE WITH PROS OUTCOME Eliminated margin leakage The company recovered approximately $1M in margin leakage per month. Accelerated basis - point growth Pricing guidance helped the company experience an EBITDA margin 20 basis points higher than their best year of the 2009 - 2013 recovery. Improved pricing discipline by 42% The sales team drastically reduced the percentage of transactions that were underperforming the value - based price recommendations. Specialty chemicals manufacturer recovers $1M a month in margin leakage with PROS PRO S SM A RT PO M PRO FIT A B LE G RO W T H

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