01
Data readiness
The number one cause of project delay — not budget, not technology.
- Is pricing data centralized and clean?
- Are cost allocation models reliable?
- Can you see customer-level profitability?
The real blockers
The promise of AI-powered pricing is real. So is the risk.
Vendors promise 2–7% margin gains through machine learning and dynamic pricing. They're right — but only if your organization is ready. Without these three foundations, expensive software becomes shelfware.
02
Organizational adoption
Kills more pricing projects than technology limitations ever do.
- Do sales teams trust the recommendations?
- Is pricing authority actually agreed?
- Is finance, sales and ops aligned?
03
No test-and-learn loop
Without a repeatable cycle, gains erode the quarter after go-live.
- Is there a process for testing changes?
- Do win/loss findings reach pricing?
- Who owns quarterly review?
68%
of pricing transformations fail to deliver expected ROI because of data quality and organizational readiness — not technology limits.
$2.4M
average annual margin leakage per $100M of revenue, from inconsistent execution and missing governance.
6–9 mo
to full ROI when foundation work comes first — versus 18 months when it's skipped.
Source: published pricing-transformation benchmarks. Replace with specific citations before launch.
Who we serve
Complex portfolios, thin margins, thousands of SKUs.
We work with mid-market and enterprise companies where pricing is genuinely hard — many products, many channels, many exceptions, and rules that no spreadsheet can hold.
Manufacturing
Discrete, process and building materials. Cost volatility and customer-specific agreements that need systematic margin protection.
Distribution
Food, industrial and specialty. High volume, low margin, where every basis point separates profit from loss.
Chemicals & process
Volatile inputs, formula-based pricing and deep product hierarchies demanding real-time margin visibility.
Typical profile
$100M – $5B+ revenue
5,000 – 500,000+ SKUs
Multi-channel
Complex pricing rules
Americas · EN & ES
Our approach
From assessment to value realization.
We don't just implement software. Four phases, each with a defined output you can hold your team to.
1Evaluate
Pricing readiness assessment
Current maturity, data readiness and organizational alignment — before you make any technology decision.
Output
Maturity scorecard + opportunity sizing
2Plan
Solution design & roadmap
Pain points mapped to capabilities, target architecture designed, phasing that balances quick wins against the long game.
Output
Business case + phased roadmap
3Implement
Pricefx deployment
Quoting, price management, agreements, rebates and analytics — configured by people who have done it before.
Output
Live platform + trained key users
4Optimize
Continuous improvement
Transformation doesn't end at go-live. Advanced capabilities, refined models, adoption driven across the organization.
Output
Quarterly review cadence + CoE
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Featured result
Global appliance manufacturer: six days to nine hours.
Pricing across 47 countries, each with its own currency, regulation and competitive dynamic. Quote approval took six days. There were no guardrails. Roughly half of all quotes were rejected outright.
We implemented intelligent quoting with pricing guardrails driven by data-based guidelines and elasticity models, then rolled it out across the Americas.
Talk to us about a comparable rollout →92%
fewer quote rejections
from ~50% to 4%
8×
faster approvals
6 days → 9 hours
$15M+
annual revenue uplift
from accelerated sales
12×
return on investment
within first 12 months
Patterns across engagements
Manufacturing
+4.2%
gross margin in 9 months; unprofitable SKU exceptions down 73%
Distribution
+$12M
annual margin captured with no volume loss; 94% sales adoption
B2B services
+31%
average deal size; discount requests down 45% via better positioning
Industrial products
−68%
pricing exceptions after authority matrix and guardrails
Client composite. Individual results vary — validate each figure before publishing.
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Pricing Readiness Assessment
20 dimensions across strategy, process, technology and organization. Instant maturity scorecard, peer benchmarking, and a prioritized roadmap for your stage.
10minutes
20dimensions
4pillars
Free12 min
Data Readiness Audit
20 dimensions over five pillars: quality, architecture, analytics, governance, operations.
Free12 min
Pricing Challenges Diagnostic
Where margin actually leaks: waterfall visibility, discount governance, quote-to-cash velocity.
Free8 min
ROI Value Model
Six value levers, three scenarios. NPV, IRR, payback and a print-ready business case.
Insights
Written for people who own the number.
The $100 Million Question
Quantifying the hidden profit drain from pricing inefficiency across manufacturing and distribution.
Engineering Pricing Excellence from Chaos
Building a Pricing Center of Excellence that delivers measurable results, not another committee.
Capturing Every Dollar of Value
Most B2B companies realize only 60–75% of list price. A tactical guide to closing the gap.