Take Control of Supplier Pricing, Rebates and P21 Price Page Updates

Supplier pricing changes can affect a lot more than a spreadsheet.

 

New costs need to be reviewed. Rebates need to be tracked. Existing Prophet 21 Price Pages may need to be compared against proposed pricing. Changes need to be approved, scheduled and deployed — without creating pricing mistakes that can affect margins or customers.

 

MindHARBOR develops supplier rebate and Price Page automation solutions for Epicor Prophet 21 that give your team better visibility and control over the process.

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Instead of managing complex pricing changes through disconnected spreadsheets, emails and manual updates, we can build tools around the way your business actually manages supplier pricing.

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From Supplier Price Change to P21 Update

A supplier sends new pricing. Now what?

 

COMPARE → REVIEW → APPROVE → SCHEDULE → UPDATE → AUDIT

The mechanics of changing a price may be simple.

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Determining what should change, when it should change and who approved it is where the real business process lives.

 

A custom workflow can help bring those steps together and provide users with a central place to manage supplier-driven pricing changes before they reach Prophet 21.

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Compare Proposed Pricing Before Making Changes

Before new supplier pricing is deployed, your team may need to understand how it compares with what's already in P21.

MindHARBOR can develop tools that allow users to compare proposed supplier pricing against existing Prophet 21 Price Pages before changes are made.

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That gives users an opportunity to review the impact, identify potential issues and make informed decisions before updated pricing reaches the system.

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The goal isn't simply to make price changes faster. It's to make them more visible, controlled and deliberate.

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Manage Supplier Rebates Alongside Pricing

Supplier rebates can add another layer of complexity to purchasing and pricing decisions.

Information may need to be tracked, reviewed and maintained as supplier programs and pricing change.

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A centralized solution can provide greater visibility into supplier rebate information while connecting that information with the broader pricing-management process.

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Instead of treating rebates and price updates as completely separate activities, the workflow can be designed around how your team actually manages both.

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Schedule Price Changes — Or Deploy Them Now

Not every supplier price change should take effect immediately.

Some updates may need to become effective on a specific date. Others may be ready for deployment as soon as they're reviewed and approved.

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A P21 pricing-management solution can allow authorized users to schedule price updates for future deployment or execute approved changes immediately.

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That puts the timing of pricing changes under your team's control rather than relying on someone to remember to make a manual update later.

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Know Who Changed What — And When

Pricing affects revenue, margin and customer relationships. Changes should be traceable.

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MindHARBOR can incorporate audit trails for user approvals and changes, helping provide a record of how pricing decisions moved through the process.

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That can give your team better visibility into:

What changed → Who reviewed it → Who approved it → When it was scheduled → When it was deployed

 

The result is greater accountability and a clearer history of supplier-driven pricing activity.

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Reduce Manual Effort — Without Giving Up Control

Automation doesn't have to mean automatically accepting every supplier price change.

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In many business processes, the better answer is to automate the repetitive work while keeping people involved where judgment or approval matters.

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A supplier pricing workflow can help reduce manual effort while still providing the review, approval and audit controls your business requires.

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Automate the process. Keep control of the decision.

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Built Around Your Prophet 21 Pricing Process

Every distributor handles supplier pricing a little differently.

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Your process may involve different suppliers, rebate programs, Price Pages, approval requirements, effective dates and internal responsibilities.

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That's why MindHARBOR doesn't approach this as a one-size-fits-all pricing product.

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We can develop a web-based application, portal, workflow or automation solution around your existing Prophet 21 environment and the way your team actually manages supplier pricing.

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The original solution behind this capability was designed specifically around a customer's business processes and integrated with its P21 environment.

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You May Not Need a Giant Pricing Project

• Maybe supplier price files are taking too long to review.

• Maybe your team is manually comparing spreadsheets against P21.

• Maybe rebate information is difficult to track.

• Maybe future price changes are being managed through calendars and reminders.

• Maybe you're worried that a pricing mistake could make it into production before someone catches it.

• Or maybe you've simply reached the point where the spreadsheet isn't cutting it anymore.

• That's enough of a place to start.

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Bring Us Your P21 Pricing or Rebate Challenge

Show us how supplier pricing reaches you today and what your team has to do with it before those changes reach Prophet 21.

We'll help look for opportunities to simplify the workflow, automate repetitive steps, improve visibility and keep the right people in control.