Go beyond the conventional approaches to a next level of profit optimization with IMA360

Even Though the global Pulp, Paper & Packaging industry size is expected to consistently grow in time, the industry still faces important challenges for the next decade. The industry is often labeled as a “traditional” industry, yet the confluence of technological changes, demographic shifts and resource constraints, require embracing changes that are anything but traditional. Protecting and increasing market volumes, identifying the appropriate pricing strategy, and ultimately finding the next level in profit optimization become critical challenges for companies in the industry.

Pulp, Paper & Packaging

Full suite of solutions to Configure, Price, Quote, Promote and Optimize

Full suite of solutions that will help reduce cost and complexity in end-to-end processes from planning-budgeting to execution in your profit generating systems with a tight control, visibility and optimization of your pricing and rebate programs.

Price Management

Maintain a single source of truth for all prices and discounts, with seamless integration to distribute data to ordering systems in real time.

Efficiently build and distribute price catalogs and generate real-time quotes with AI-powered margin analysis.

Analyze and establish product prices using multiple pricing strategies, leveraging historical data simulations to determine the optimal price.  Analyze margins when negotiating contracts with GPOs.

Efficient management of pricing validity dates, automated periodic pricing updates and traceability of changes.

Pricing engine that can easily handle the most complex products and key pricing figures, providing easy data access and visibility from Base/List Price to Net and to Margin.

Customer Rebates B2B

Rebate engine that allows to efficiently manage the Contract to Settlement process, including setup, eligibility, calculation, accruals, payment to your B2B partners including distributors, membership groups, buying groups and brokers.

Pre-configured solution to efficiently handle various rebates programs, such as flat rate, fixed amount, tiered volume with single and graduated scales and tiered growth.  Flexible configurable options to easily define formulas to determine rebate basis in units or amount and flexibility to use different units of measures for rate determination and rebate calculation.

Empower your partners with a collaborative portal that enables easy visibility and execution of rebate and chargeback agreements.

Full transparency and only source of truth in terms of program eligibility, incentive offering, claim processing and traceability with full integration to customer chargebacks.

Customer Chargeback B2B

Automate the entire chargebacks process seamlessly with EDI 844/845/849/867 mapping, delivered out of the box, and harness the power of blockchain capability for added efficiency and transparency.

Efficient process to estimate provisions and accrue chargebacks for those sales not yet attached to a claim.

Means to control distributors for not claiming more than their actual purchased quantities.  Tracking of Distributor’s inventory of units bought and not yet sold to end-customer and claimed.

Full integration with customer rebate contracts

Automatic translation of material numbers and End-customer numbers between your company and those from the distributor.

Efficient dispute and exception management process.

Profit Optimization Strategy

Boost your profits through optimized pricing, rebates and chargebacks.

Analyze real-time profitability at any level for a comprehensive understanding.  Drill down at any level for data-driven insights.

Leverage AI-driven sales forecasts to ensure precise demand predictions, empowering you to model your pricing and rebates effectively.

Rebate Costing & Budgeting

Ensure optimal evaluation, cost and funding of rebate programs through AI-driven sales forecasts and simulations. Adjust as necessary to maximize impact.

Streamline the allocation, tracking, and approval processes for marketing programs that empower distributors to promote your brand effectively. Keep a close eye on performance to drive success.

IMA360 Solution capabilities

Drive Growth and Profitability by analyzing and optimizing your Pricing, Rebates and Chargebacks with IMA360’s Profit Optimization software.

Unique features

  • Take advantage of IMA360’s platform as a service for greater flexibility.
  • Take advantage of pre-configured capabilities in the solution for the Pulp, Paper & Packaging industry, which will significantly ease and speed the deployment.
  • Leverage built-in, proven best practices, forms and workflows.
  • Trust IMA360 platform with advanced analytics, driven by AI and ML, to provide holistic and accurate insights of your pricing, rebates and chargeback management systems.

Digital Transformation/Smart Processing

  • Leverage IMA360 functionality on a scalable and secure cloud platform with configurable extensions and personalization, instead of customization.
  • Use out of the box EDIs formats to safely share information with external partners.
  • Collaborate easily with your channel partners without the need for emails with excel files on collaboration portal to settle claims and resolve claim disputes.
  • Optimize complex workflows and increase efficiency.
  • Single, unified, and integrated solution ensures integration with most ERP systems.

Decreases Operational Complexity

  • Ensure standardization of Pricing and Rebate processes across Division Groups, Product lines and Regions to support a Global Design and a Global visibility.
  • Run your entire business–every department, every site, every region and every country– on one platform and solution. One source of truth.
  • Ease price and rebate operational process on complex eligibility, calculation, accrual and payment rules.

Optimize Process, Achieve Profitability

  • Make sense of the complex and often error-prone processes of contract-setup, pricing, eligibility, claiming, calculation and settlement with a solution built to drive efficiency with full contract and program management capabilities.
  • Automatically manage your GPO, buying group member lists, and their activations to keep track of attached rebate and chargeback contracts.
  • IMA360’s reason for rejection dashboard allows for quick resolution.
  • Retroactive contract changes automatically calculate adjustment for the impacted periods and reflect in the approval workflow.

Analytics & Reporting

  • Analyze historical data to gain insights into deal win rates and profitability and uncover pricing leakage. Visualize pricing data by running price waterfall and funnel charts.
  • Make better decisions with proactive analytics and reporting.
  • Multiple dashboards available for deeper analysis. Configurable dashboards, Operational reports, and Self-serve zero code reports.

Security And Regulatory Compliance

  • Complete online real time tracking and audit trail for all types of rebates or pricing related data. Ability to route any price or contract change to the approval process ensuring compliance.
  • Robust and easy to configure security role designer, provides the means to address security and compliance requirements including SOD-Segregation of Duties.

Integrated with most ERP/CRM solutions including

IMA360 Automotive Solution capabilities

Drive Growth and Profitability by analyzing and optimizing your Pricing, Promotions, and Incentives with IMA360’s Profit Optimization software.

Unique features

  • Take advantage of IMA360’s platform as a service for greater flexibility.
  • Take advantage of pre-configured, automotive industry-specific capabilities for ease and speed of deployment.
  • Leverage built-in, proven best practices, forms and workflows.
  • Trust IMA360 platform with advanced analytics, driven by AI and ML, to provide holistic and accurate insights of your pricing, promotions and incentives management system.

Optimize Process, achieve Profitability

  • Make sense of the complex and often error-prone processes of contract-setup, pricing, eligibility, claiming, calculation and settlement with a solution built to drive efficiency with full contract and program management capabilities.

Digital Transformation/Smart processing

  • Leverage digital technology and data insights to manage your pricing and promotion execution, while optimizing margin and profitability. Analyze historical data to gain insights into deal win rates and profitability and uncover pricing leakage. Visualize pricing data by running price waterfall and funnel charts.
  • Leverage IMA360 functionality on a scalable and secure cloud platform with configurable extensions and personalization, instead of customization.
  • Use EDIs to safely share information with external dealer partners.
  • Optimize complex workflows and increase efficiency.
  • Ensure you can continue to securely integrate and access data from other systems. Single, unified, and integrated solution ensures integration with most ERP systems and easy to set up integrations for in-house legacy systems.
  • Make better decisions with proactive analytics and reporting.
  • Collaborate easily with your channel partners without the need for emails with excel files on collaboration portal to settle claims and resolve claim disputes.
  • Multiple dashboards available for deeper analysis. Configurable dashboards, Operational reports, and Self-serve zero code reports.

Decreases Operational complexity

  • Ensure standardization of Pricing and Promotions processes across Division Groups, Product lines and Regions to support a Global Design and a Global visibility.
  • Run your entire business–every department, every site, every region and every country– on one platform and solution. One source of truth.

Security and regulatory compliance

  • Complete online real time tracking and audit trail for all types of promotions, incentives or pricing related data. Ability to route any price or contract change to the approval process ensuring compliance.