Data

In this article, we share the reasons why you should be pursuing transparent data with your trading partners.

On some level, making bad decisions is unavoidable. No one can always be right. But organizations can find ways to make fewer bad decisions. Using rebates as a strategic driver of growth is one way to mitigate bad decision making. Don’t believe us? Here’s how it works:

You may have heard the following key facts about rebates before, but what do they have to do with leveraging your data to drive revenue growth with rebates? In this blog post, we summarize the essence of a webinar on how to achieve this goal by improving how you manage rebates.

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Who is in charge of making the best use of your data? Before rules like GDPR came into effect the answer was, often, no one. Even today, without an effective data framework and a collaborative approach to sharing data, it may be rotting in siloes: unused and unusable. That has to change. In a recent report, Gartner makes the statement that data and analytics leaders must expand business value while managing cost and risk (in fact, that’s the title of their report). Why is this relevant to...

Producing reports on your rebate deals is necessary if you want your business to make trading decisions far more frequently and proactively while maximizing business performance. However, reporting on these deals is becoming more complex each year because of the wide range and types of deals involved and the tedious reporting processes organizations have in place. As organizations aggregate more and more rebate data from multiple departments and systems, finance and commercial teams face a...

As the uncertainty amidst the pandemic and economic disruption continues, companies need to use strategic insights to support decision-making around their rebate deals. However even if they have access to useful data doesn’t necessarily mean that companies are able to translate the data into meaningful strategic insights. According to a Forrester report, 41% of businesses struggle to turn data into decisions. There continues to be a large gap between access to data and the ability to derive...

With growing businesses and especially those dealing with rebates and B2B deals, manual data entry is commonplace despite its inherent drawbacks. At the start it just made sense, it’s a simple solution, sometimes cheap and processes can be easily completed. But as time goes on this method becomes less scalable and cost-effective. Whether it’s transferring data from one spreadsheet to another, copying and pasting data between tools, or manually entering data from paper documents into your ERP...

Data is the new oil - a vast (often untapped) reservoir built up over the years and buried deep in an organization which, when extracted and processed correctly, can fuel a revolution within both your industry and your business. As the world becomes more and more data driven, it becomes necessary to examine processes and identify whether utilizing more accurate and granular data will truly aid in the improvement of a function – providing significant benefits – or will simply waste resource...

At Enable we speak to a wide range of distributors challenged with managing the complexity of their rebates. A common theme running through these conversations is the desire they have to improve visibility and transparency of information. After all, data visibility doesn’t just affect one part of the business – it has the power to impact or improve every single process and department. Business inefficiencies are costly if your team wastes time searching for data that is siloed in disparate...