Gain control of trade spending in the face of rising prices

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MEI Computer Technology Group Inc.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10

GAIN CONTROL OF TRADE SPENDING IN THE FACE OF RISING PRICES

Meet the Experts

Presenter Joel Cartwright Director Pre-Sales Consulting MEI Computer Technology Group Moderator Rob Whynot Senior Project Manager MEI Computer Technology Group

Agenda

Who is MEI

The State of the Market

How Commodity Crunch is Affecting CPG

What You Can Do

Q&A

Who is MEI?

A leading developer of trade promotion

management software for the Consumer Packaged

Goods (CPG) industry

Offers a complete and proven solution that enables consumer packaged goods CPG companies to successfully plan, execute and analyze all aspects of the trade promotion management cycle

Established in 1983

Client base is made up 50 clients ranging

from $30M to $3B in sales

State of the Market

CPG

Grocers achieved growth as

consumers traded down; foodservice

felt the pinch

Commodity prices driving food inflation

Economy-weary consumers face price increases

following times of aggressive promotion

Consolidation opportunities

rising within retail and

manufacturing

Poll Question

State of the Market

http://www.warc.com/LatestNews/News/Promotions_lose_favour.news?ID=27833

State of the Market

http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/commodities/futures/

How It Affects CPG

What You Can Do

Price Increase Needs & Deliverables

•  Corporate Finance Responsibility -  Understanding the impact to plan. -  Allocation of funding for price protection -  Standardization with Key pricing indicators

•  Sales Operations -  Plan for category sensitive pricing -  Review risks and gaps to plan, and forecasts -  Forecast accuracy metric

•  Field Sales -  Review planning and identify volume loss going over pricing

thresholds -  Adhere to price in crease KPI in the category -  Review customer pricing compliance

Trade Reduction v. Price increase

•  Contribution & Its Impact to the Bottom-Line -  Sales operations management -  Annual planning of event activity -  Standard quarterly review

•  Rich Mix & Ability to Co-Promote -  Co-promotion of Margin Rich items -  Negotiation on price points or non- rich mix items -  KPI adherence on non rich mix items, “Penny Profit”

Topline Impact vs. Bottom-line Maintenance

•  Price increase planning individual Customer P&L -  Comparing the corporate planning P&L to the

live customer P&L to look for gaps and opportunities -  Sharing the customer P&L across the organization -  Mid Year trade deployment based on customer profitability

To Lead or Follow

Poll Question

Adjust the Sales Objectives

•  Understanding a price increase & the deliverable to the S&OP •  Adjusting spending & accrual objectives after a price increase

•  Comparatives to RPC spending, margin and price point

What to Do Next?

•  It’s all in the details

•  One plan in one place

Key Takeaways

Understanding the Impact to the Plan

Understanding the Impact to Contribution

Accruals & P&L

Objectives & the Plan

Leverage Technology

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Q&A

Contact Information

Presenter Joel Cartwright Director Pre-Sales Consulting jcartwright@meicpg.com Moderator Rob Whynot Senior Project Manager rwhynot@meicpg.com

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