Standard Pricing Capability Use Cases

Use cases and Personas

Sellers:

  • Request the latest prices from POS system, the POS system ensures it has the latest from the standard pricing capability for immediate use in sales activities

Pricing Manager:

  • Use the standard pricing capability as the source of truth for history of prices issued to client applications

System:

  • Publish pricing to client systems and keep a record with a price ID to ensure consistency across sales, contracting, and billing
  • Clients receive a dynamic price from the standard pricing capability
  • Clients can request for pricing that is relevant to a specific price zone from the standard pricing capability

General External Assumptions

PO&M (Pricing Optimization and Management) System

Pricing Manager

  • Use PROS to establish, authorize and analyze prices and publish to the pricing capability
    • Includes setting pricing rules, monitoring algorithmic pricing performance, and adjusting strategies based on market feedback
  • Utilize analytics to evaluate the performance of pricing strategies and their impact on sales volume, profitability, and margins
    • Support regular intervals for pricing managers to verify and approve necessary price changes in the market
  • Define price zone differences as needed for business criteria (local, markets, customer type... targeting criteria list TBD)