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Channel Co-op & Market Development Fund (MDF) Best Tactics

Computer Market Research

Forecasting and Reporting. Partner POS data comes in many different formats (EDI, text files, Excel spreadsheets, zip files, etc.); it is essential your internal system can handle different sources so it can efficiently pull, cleanse and normalize diverse channel POS data formats. .); Checks and Balances.

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How ERP Improves Customer Service

ATAK Interactive

Allocate supply locations. Inventory forecasting software. ERPs can allow Point of Sale (POS) solutions that include: Processing sales and service orders quickly and efficiently. Sales forecasting. The system connects fulfillment management teams to sales order management personnel. Create service-level rules. Cross-sell.

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How to Align Marketing and Finance for Peak Performance

Allocadia

Purchase orders should be set up so that invoices can be correctly matched to POs and tracked expenses can be allocated to the correct budget line item. This ensures that any “rogue” Marketing costs are identified, scrutinized, and allocated to the appropriate expense category.

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How to Create a Successful Performance-Based MDF Program

Computer Market Research

Fixed Cost MDF Program : A Manufacturer will give one of their customers $8000 dollars per quarter for marketing; this is not measured against POS performance. This is measured against POS performance. Approval Process: A step-by-step workflow illustration of the submission, approval, and allocation process. ROI metrics).

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How ERP Improves Customer Service

ATAK Interactive

Allocate supply locations. Inventory forecasting software. ERPs can allow Point of Sale (POS) solutions that include: Processing sales and service orders quickly and efficiently. Sales forecasting. The system connects fulfillment management teams to sales order management personnel. Create service-level rules. Cross-sell.

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How ERP Improves Customer Service

ATAK Interactive

Allocate supply locations. Inventory forecasting software. ERPs can allow Point of Sale (POS) solutions that include: Processing sales and service orders quickly and efficiently. Sales forecasting. The system connects fulfillment management teams to sales order management personnel. Create service level rules. Cross-sell.

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Channel Incentive Program – 7 Things you Need to Succeed

Computer Market Research

Over the course of the past decade, there has been a continual shift in manufacturers’ perception in creating successful channel incentive program; a fluctuation in spending that has long divided channel teams, where the decision to slash channel incentive program investment or surge the allocation of trade promotional funds furiously bud heads.