Pricing, Bids, Rebates
and Contracts
Pricing Key Features
MBS DEV's software for distributors utilizes pipeline technology to allow for modifying the hierarchy of pricing at the customer level.
- Contract pricing allows for fixed, fixed variable or locked variable contract types and allows users to set up pricing by priority of contract or lowest / highest pricing
- Dynamic pricing allows pricing by margin, cost up or list down and includes margin protection
- Product class dynamic pricing allows pricing by margin, cost up or list down with margin protection at the item level
- Consumer history price files allow for price to be captured the first time an item is purchased or a quote is entered. The pricing file is managed for reoccurring margin
- Matrix pricing allows items to be grouped together for pricing by margin, cost up or cost down
- Trade agreements allow quantity break pricing
- Floor and ceiling protection can be applied to any of the pricing schemes to manage pricing to stay above cost and below list pricing
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Bid Workstation Key Features
MBS DEV’s Bid Workstation allows users to create and modify professional customer bids for the sales organization.
- Track won and lost status
- Enter competitor’s items and price to show value over the competition
- Margin calculator built in for pricing entry
- Create a contract from won bids with the click of a button
- View won and lost history for future bid management using advanced search
- Load costs for margin calculations
- Brand, configure and customize for each potential prospect
Contract Workstation Features
MBS DEV’s Contract Workstation allows users to easily create and maintain contracts, like:
- Contract items with quantity breaks
- Competitor pricing contracts
- Fixed price, variable, and locked variable contracts. Contracts can be managed by margin, cost up or list down and calculated at the time of ordering or on a periodic basis.
- Contracts can be assigned to one ore more customers
- Contracts can be prioritized for a customer
- Customers with multiple contracts can be priced based on highest or lowest price
- Contracts can be easily reviewed
- Contracts can be delivered via electronic, hard, or faxed copies
- Contract items can be set up to prevent the global product cross reference and alternate item features
Deviated Cost Rebates
- Rebates can be captured at the warehouse or global level
- Rebate contracts can display only vendor products
- Rebate products can be added to rebate contracts by product number, commodity code or by all products within the vendor
- Rebate contracts can be calculated by percentage, dollar value or flat cost
- Purchase terms for rebate contracts can be tracked and purchase order terms updated during purchase order creation
- Rebate contracts can be back-dated and processed for transactions that have been recorded to the rebate contract
- Both customers and customer rebate groups can be attached to a customer rebate
- Vendor exclusion lists can be created
- Customer exclusion lists can be created to exclude a customer from a contract
- Rebate contracts are easily searchable
- Rebate contracts for products can be used in sales commission calculations
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