Connect sales forecasting and trade planning for instant volume predictions, and seamless adjustments all in one system.
Forecasting in Excel is a tedious, time-consuming, and manual process which leads to inefficiencies and errors.
At Vividly, we automate the entire sales forecasting process. As the base forecast changes, promotion volume and spend estimates automatically adjust. Thus, if promotions change, so will the forecast. Vividly makes reforecasting dynamic and easy!
At Vividly, we help you take the guesswork out of forecasting. Once a base plan is created in Vividly, users will no longer have to manually calculate incremental volumes on promotion. Vividly provides an AI-powered approach by letting our system calculate the volume based on the parameters selected during promotion planning.
Easily set up and manage indirect customers with various distributors – this includes RTM and pricing changes occurring in the future.
Vividly provides a seamless and intuitive approach to managing your retailers and distributors!
Bottom's up forecasting provides granular, defensible detail for a broad number of questions that can come up when analyzing your AOP or just understanding accuracy.
By adding clarity and insight into your trade promotions, Vividly empowers you to focus more on growth, and less on busy work.
90%
Reduction in deduction-
processing labor
21%
Improvement in
planning accuracy.
74%
Increase in contract
backup compliance.
19%
Reduction in unexpected
trade dollars.
Vividly is a home run, there is no way to stay on top of trade without them and they are a critical piece of our 2021 and 2022 growth goals.
The Vividly software is intuitive and they provide exceptional support. Their team and system is helping our business manage trade with greater intention and accuracy.
Vividly gets trade spend. Their software and industry knowledge brought our team very quickly to a much more detailed, intuitive, and insightful place. I cannot be happier and am very excited for us to use Vividly going into 2021.
Vividly has allowed Lily’s to efficiently create and track promotion activity with direct and indirect accounts. Not only do we have better visibility to retailer level trade rates, we are able to tighten our accrual expense based on historical views of promotional activity. Vividly has provided us the internal controls we were missing which are permission structure and contract compliance. Questions? The embedded intercom app provides comfort to those in our organization that aren’t tech-savvy individuals.
The more we grow, the more we need a means of efficiently and effectively planning, tracking and analysing our promotion activity. Vividly offers a strong toolset that streamlines the process, helps us stretch every dollar as far as it will go, and gives us the firm control we need over trade spend.
Vividly provided us the ability to scan 100+ pages of larger retailer scan and coupon bill backs and quickly built out the ability of scanning a completely new back-up source we had trouble with. With its quick turn around time on implementation and development, we are now able to much more easily reconcile our top retailers’ trade spend.
“It's crazy in retrospect that we weren't being scientific about our trade spend considering it's one of the largest line items on our P&L. Vividly changed the game in a big way.”
“Vividly hosts biannual reviews with each of its clients. It’s a great company report card. Other TPM tools I’ve worked with never performed anything like this. Vividly really goes above and beyond for their clients.”
“Ensures accountability and thorough reconciliation of all trade activities. Our investors are big proponents of Vividly and now so are we.”
“We have become more efficient with our time and more knowledgeable about how to best execute our trade budget, giving us an advantage in the industry.”
“Streamlined our entire trade management system… the tools effectively track, forecast, and actualize our spend.”
“Choosing Vividly was a no-brainer. They have trade management for brands like us down to a science.”
Full workstream management
Multiple interfaces for specialized tasks
Calendar view of promotions
Advanced product search functions
Fully exportable to Microsoft Excel
Interface for multi-submissions/approvals
Create multiple promotions at once
Auto-mapped customers to distributors
Linked contacts & brokers to deals
Customizable GL account and product grouping structure
Attach backups, calendars, & contracts to specific promotions
Ledger style comments section for each promotion
Duplicate deals easily
Stack several types of deals into one promotion
Product information (UPCs, alternate names, pricing, product group assignments)
Customer mapping (retailer/ distributor organization)
Customizable notification system (deal declined, comments added, etc.). Option for daily emails
Contacts hub for brokers, buyers, account managers, etc.
Two-level permissions structure for users (Viewer, Admin)
Enhanced four-level permissions structure for users (Viewer, Director, Manager, Admin)
Customer assignments (silo each director's view to only accounts they manage)
Promotion approval guardrails (promo over $X must be approved by VP)
Revenue by customer (integrates with any accounting software)
Actuals vs expected comparisons by promotion
Promotion timing analysis (deductions received vs. deal realized)
Interactive actual vs. expected analytics table
POS data integration (SPINS /IRI/ Nielsen/ retailer specific portals- e.g. WFM, Target, etc.)
Bump chart feature (lift and compliance tracking)
Revenue, spend, and trade rates by customer
Live accruals interface with proposed reversals
ROI Analysis to improve spend efficiency
Utilize the Deductions Scanning Module to collate complex PDF files with an Excel based output
Ability to search for planned promotions and validate against deductions within ERP
Leverage an internal deduction matcher that automates promotion matching for deductions
Streamline transaction deposits within ERP by utilizing Deductions Reconciliation Module
Store all trade and non-trade expenses within the platform
Store retailer/distributor invoice back-up directly to the transaction for added transparency
Internal controls minimize mistakes and drastically simplifies the audit preparation process through our activity log & more
Flag for internal review or dispute to ensure timely resolution of expenses
Communicate cross depart-mentally within the Deductions Reconciliation Module
Full workstream management
Multiple interfaces for specialized tasks
Calendar view of promotions
Advanced product search functions
Fully exportable to Microsoft Excel
Interface for multi-submissions/approvals
Create multiple promotions at once
Auto-mapped customers to distributors
Linked contacts & brokers to deals
Customizable GL account and product grouping structure
Attach backups, calendars, & contracts to specific promotions
Ledger style comments section for each promotion
Duplicate deals easily
Stack several types of deals into one promotion
Product information (UPCs, alternate names, pricing, product group assignments)
Customer mapping (retailer/ distributor organization)
Customizable notification system (deal declined, comments added, etc.). Option for daily emails
Contacts hub for brokers, buyers, account managers, etc.
Two-level permissions structure for users (Viewer, Admin)
Enhanced four-level permissions structure for users (Viewer, Director, Manager, Admin)
Customer assignments (silo each director's view to only accounts they manage)
Promotion approval guardrails (promo over $X must be approved by VP)
Revenue by customer (integrates with any accounting software)
Actuals vs expected comparisons by promotion
Promotion timing analysis (deductions received vs. deal realized)
Interactive actual vs. expected analytics table
POS data integration (SPINS /IRI/ Nielsen/ retailer specific portals- e.g. WFM, Target, etc.)
Bump chart feature (lift and compliance tracking)
Revenue, spend, and trade rates by customer
Live accruals interface with proposed reversals
ROI Analysis to improve spend efficiency
Utilize the Deductions Scanning Module to collate complex PDF files with an Excel based output
Ability to search for planned promotions and validate against deductions within ERP
Leverage an internal deduction matcher that automates promotion matching for deductions
Streamline transaction deposits within ERP by utilizing Deductions Reconciliation Module
Store all trade and non-trade expenses within the platform
Store retailer/distributor invoice back-up directly to the transaction for added transparency
Internal controls minimize mistakes and drastically simplifies the audit preparation process through our activity log & more
Flag for internal review or dispute to ensure timely resolution of expenses
Communicate cross depart-mentally within the Deductions Reconciliation Module
