DemandTec Deal Management

Streamline processes and reduce errors through online collaboration.

• Using DemandTec Deal Management, lessen or eliminate the countless e-mails, faxes and spreadsheets that typically go back and forth between retailers and vendors
• Reduce the potential error often associated with unstructured communication.
• DemandTec Deal Management allows retailers to collaborate in a security-rich environment based on their rules of engagement.

Boost efficiency by offloading time-consuming, manual processes to vendors.

• Helps retailers to dramatically boost productivity by pushing data entry work to their vendors
• Allows vendors to enter deal information through a retailer-specific web portal
• Retailers deploying the full End-to-End Promotion Management solution can have deal information passed directly to other modules in order to plan promotional ads and events, as well as predict the performance of proposed deals and the net impact on the category

Maximize trade funds availability by reducing vendor funds held in reserve.

• Cuts time of settlement processes so that vendors do not have to hold trade funds in reserve
• DemandTec Deal Management provides a comprehensive, automated solution designed to capture the entire deal management process and share key information with suppliers
• Retailers can cut deal cycle time while lowering their cost to serve
• Vendors are able to clear deals faster and offer additional deals to their retailers

Accelerate the reconciliation and audit process with an electronic document archive.

• DemandTec Deal Management provides a seven-year online archive that virtually eliminates the need for costly post-deal audits to confirm that all deductions are fairly taken and accounted for
• The archive also provides an electronic audit trail for regulatory compliance, such as Sarbanes-Oxley requirements
• Can deliver invoices more quickly and cost-effectively by distributing uploaded invoices to vendors through email and tracking deliverability