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    Dynamic Pricing & Margin Recovery

    Dynamic Pricing & Margin Recovery

    Recover 1-4% of gross margin from the pricing decisions you already make, without losing a single unit of volume.

    Dynamic Pricing & Margin Recovery architecture diagram
    Outcomes

    What changes once this is in

    1-4% gross margin recovered

    Typical growing wholesale or distribution business recovers 1-4% of gross margin in the first twelve months. No volume loss, because the recommendations are tuned against elasticity, not applied blind.

    Discount discipline restored

    Sales reps see the margin impact of every exception before they commit. Price-down decisions move from habit to conscious trade-off, and the category team can see the cumulative cost of the discount book.

    Monthly reviews, not annual ones

    Pricing reviews shift from a once-a-year political exercise to a weekly operating rhythm. Cost increases flow through in days, not quarters. Tender prices stop ageing in silence.

    A decision trail that survives audit

    Every recommendation, every approval, every override is logged against the person who made it and the margin impact at the time. Finance stops hunting for explanations after the close.

    A pricing analytics system that reads every SKU, customer, and channel in your ERP, flags where margin is leaking, and puts recommended price moves in front of your category managers for approval. Built for growing Australian wholesalers, distributors, and retailers. Recommendations go to humans. Approved changes go to the ERP. No auto-pricing.

    The Problem

    What usually breaks

    Most wholesalers and retailers in Australia still set prices the same way they did a decade ago. A cost-plus spreadsheet. An annual review. A sales rep with discount authority and a quota. Tender prices that haven't been looked at since the contract was signed. The category manager knows the top 200 SKUs cold and trusts the other 8,000 to the formula.

    That worked when input costs moved once a year. It does not work now. Freight has moved four times in two years. Suppliers push through cost increases monthly. Sales reps discount to hold volume. Nobody owns the long tail.

    The margin leak is real, and it is invisible in the P&L until the half-year close. By then the 2% is gone and the CFO is the one who has to explain it to the board.

    In Your Business

    How this lands inside your operation

    Your category team already has the data. It sits in NetSuite, Pronto, MYOB Advanced, SAP Business One, or whichever ERP runs your business. The problem is that nobody has the time, the model, or the tooling to look at all of it every week.

    We connect the ERP into the AgileData platform, layer a margin-and-elasticity model on top, and deliver a weekly queue to your category managers. The queue lists the SKUs, customers, and channels where pricing action is due, with a recommended move and the margin impact of making it. Your category manager reviews, approves, edits, or rejects. Approved changes flow back to the ERP. Every decision is logged. Nothing auto-applies.

    This is for you if…

    • You run a growing wholesale, distribution, building-products, industrial-supplies, multi-site retail, or hospitality business with pricing spread across ERP rules, spreadsheets, and sales discretion.
    • You have an ERP (NetSuite, Pronto, MYOB Advanced, SAP Business One, or similar) with at least two years of clean transaction history.
    • You have a category team of 2-15 people who own pricing and would use a weekly queue if one existed.
    • You suspect margin is leaking and cannot prove where or how much.
    • Your CFO is tired of finding out at half-year close.

    This probably isn't the right fit if…

    • You want full-auto real-time pricing with no human in the loop. That is not this product, and most growing businesses should not go there.
    • You do not yet have your cost data, customer master, and transaction history in one place. Fix the foundation first.
    Leak audit

    Where margin leaks

    Eight leaks we see across almost every wholesaler, distributor, and multi-site retailer we look at. The ranges are rough, drawn from the pattern of engagements rather than any single client.

    Leak typeWhat it looks likeRough impact on GP%
    Orphan discountsOne-off discounts granted years ago that nobody has reviewed since0.2-0.8%
    Price-point driftFloor prices eroded by small manual overrides that compound0.3-1.0%
    Cost-increase lagSupplier cost rises that took 60-120 days to reflect in sell price0.5-1.5%
    Freight recovery gapsFreight charged to the business but not passed through on mixed-freight customers0.2-0.6%
    Cross-customer price varianceTwo similar customers on materially different prices with no defensible reason0.2-0.7%
    Promo spillagePromotional prices that quietly stayed live after the promo window closed0.1-0.5%
    SKU tail neglectThe 80% of SKUs the category team doesn't have time to review0.3-1.0%
    Tender price obsolescenceContract prices that haven't moved since signature, while costs have0.4-1.2%

    Most businesses leak from six of the eight at once. The model finds them all in the first pass.

    How It Works

    The engagement, step by step

    1. 1

      Connect your ERP, cost feeds, and customer master into the AgileData platform as the single source of pricing truth.

    2. 2

      Build a margin model at SKU, customer, and channel level, calibrated on the last 24 months of trading.

    3. 3

      Run an elasticity layer on the lines that move enough volume to measure, flagging the rest as rules-based.

    4. 4

      Generate a weekly queue of recommended price moves with margin impact, volume risk, and rationale per item.

    5. 5

      Route the queue to the right category manager with approval, edit, or reject on each line.

    6. 6

      Push approved changes into the ERP or pricing system with a full audit trail.

    7. 7

      Feed the outcome of every approved change back into the model so next week's recommendations get sharper.

    Capabilities

    The capabilities behind this

    Advanced Analytics & ML

    Predictive models, recommendation systems, forecasting, and MLOps. Every model is measured against the decision it was built to serve.

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    AgileData Platform

    One governed data platform across your ERP, CRM, finance, and operational systems. We build it, we run it, and it is live in two weeks.

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    Insight-to-Action Systems

    The architecture that carries a number from your data to the person who acts on it, built so the loop closes instead of stopping at a dashboard.

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