FireTPM is Flexible

For Any and All TPM Business Process Variations

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Master Data

• Account Hierarchy - Ability to plan Promotions at multiple levels of the Account hierarchy and for multiple hierarchies, for rapid Program and Channel Promotion creation

• Product Hierarchy - Ability to plan at multiple levels of the product hierarchy to minimize data entry and data volumes and multiple product hierarchies for displays and shippers

 

Promotion Planning

• Customer Types - Ability to handle planning for Direct Retailers, Distributors or Indirect Retailers using Ex-Factory, Shipment, Sell-Through and/or Consumption data

• Discounting Strategies - Ability to capture discounts as % Off, $ Off, Price Point, BOGO, Bonus Product, in Cases or Units, and complex deals, involving hurdles, accelerators and caps

• Lump sums - Ability to set Lump Sum amounts at Promo Header or Promo Product levels and allocate Lump Sums set at Promo Header level by even spread or LE GSV fair share down to week level week, with a different possible logic for SKU level allocations

 

Volume Planning

• Time Granularity - Ability to manage annual sales volume in  weeks or months, with months of any fiscal definition to improve UX, Forecast Accuracy and Data Volumes and Performance 

• Sales Volume Types - Ability to plan based on best available sales data, Ex-Factory, Shipment, Sell-Through and Consumption

• Volume Planning Methodologies - Ability to plan promo volumes using a Baseline/Incremental,  Tota, Promoted/Non-Promoted and Promo Onlyl volume planning methodology

 

Reporting

• Latest Estimate Volume and Spend Calcs - Ability to take best of Predicted, KAM Estimated, Actual Shipment, Actual Sell-Though, Actual Consumption and Claim Payments data

• Trade Funds - Ability to manage Fixed and Accrual Funds at any level of the Account and Product hierarchies

• Customer and Promo P&L - Ability to report on Gross Sales, Net Revenue, Spend and Profit, by week, month, quarter, year, YTD,/YTG and YoY by Product dimension, by  Base, Incremental and Total, from Company and Customer POV

 

Financial Execution

• Settlements - Ability to have multiple payees per promotion, multiple claims per promotion and multiple promotions per claim

• Claim Payments - Ability to associate Claim Payments to Promo Header or Promo Product levels and allocate Claim Payments associate at Promo Header level by even spread or LE GSV fair share down to week level week, with a different possible logic for SKU level allocations

• Accruals - Ability update LE and intelligently allocate to week/month and SKU level based on promotion in-flight status and desired spread algorithms

 

Globalization

• Currencies - Ability to auto-translate between currencies in real-time, allowing Funds, Consumer Tactic, Deal Tactic and Claims to all be in different currencies for a single promotion

• Language - Ability to auto-translate from one master language to 35 different languages on a single instance