Promotion Planning

Promotions play a vital role in retail campaigns to incentivise customers to take action and achieve marketing objects. It’s why it's critical to ensure effective promotion planning and orchestration utilising the latest product and price information.

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The Features Of Promotion Planning

 Get a handle on things with the power of Promotion Planning

Your marketing, and category/buying teams have defined the campaign strategy, messaging and promotional tactics. Executing these plans in your promotions can be complex to ensure customers are incentivised

Decide on the number of activities to plan during the year including length and frequency

Decide on the number of activities to plan during the year including length and frequency

Decide the themes to be run throughout the year according to events

Decide the themes to be run throughout the year according to events

View your planned marketing activities within a timeline by activity or supplier

View your planned marketing activities within a timeline by activity or supplier

Promotion Management

Making the right decisions when planning your promotions is important with many key considerations such as pricing, discounts, stock requirements, distribution costs, competitor activity and much more

Evaluate performance of past campaigns

Evaluate performance of past campaigns

Set the expectations for the performance of future campaigns

Set the expectations for the performance of future campaigns

Coordinate the conditions for each supplier’s products in future campaigns

Coordinate the conditions for each supplier’s products in future campaigns

Making Your Supplier Your Best Friend

Finalising a promotion and ensuring you have every detail in order before sending it for production is a considerable task to accomplish without compromising time-to-market

Decide what products to add at what prices, and add all the promotional information needed for production

Decide what products to add at what prices, and add all the promotional information needed for production

Add commercial storytelling in the form of themes to each campaign (such as Christmas, Easter, or birthdays themes)

Add commercial storytelling in the form of themes to each campaign (such as Christmas, Easter, or birthdays themes)

Add event based content specific to each campaign (such as competitions, coupons, etc.)

Add event based content specific to each campaign (such as competitions, coupons, etc.)

Review the product text, prices and images you plan to use on  your promotion before creative production - we call this zero-proofing

Review the product text, prices and images you plan to use on your promotion before creative production - we call this zero-proofing

Export the campaign draft in your required file type for Creative Production

Export the campaign draft in your required file type for Creative Production

Never Enough Hands. Never Enough Time. Always Catching Up.
Promotion Management Making Your Supplier Your Best Friend Never Enough Hands. Never Enough Time. Always Catching Up.

Realise the benefits of integrated no code Promotion Planning

Improve data quality

We ensure you can centralise and standardise your product ensuring your internal teams have the most up-to-date data leading to a reduction in errors and inconsistencies that can lead to customer dissatisfaction

Better customer experience

We ensure buyer confidence by ensuring you can provide accurate data and complete product information across all sales channels

Reduce Time-to-Market

We ensure that your Time-to-Market is reduced by offering you a way to systematise your promotion planning allowing you to optimise and focus on the details.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) - Get the answers you need!

What is Promotion Planning?

A promotion planning system is a piece of software that assists businesses in planning and managing their promotions, coordinating with suppliers, and executing campaigns. A promotion management system typically allows you to systematise your promotion mix both long term and short term, visualise your plans for your suppliers, and finalise campaigns for production.

Who uses Promotion Planning?

Promotion planning systems are used by retailers to manage and coordinate all required efforts to run a retail campaign and reduce time-to-market successfully.

What are the benefits of a Promotion Planning system?

The benefits of a promotion planning system include some of the following:

  • Provides a holistic overview of planned activities
  • Assists in coordinating and aligning with key suppliers by providing visualisation of the plan e.g. a timeline
  • Connects existing product information and media from your PIM and DAM solutions with a campaign
  • Simplifies adding campaign-specific information  to a product without interfering with master data
  • Easy management of themes and event content on a campaign
  • Saves time and increases productivity
  • Reduces time-to-market by offering a user-friendly zero-proofing solution
  • Easy collaboration across teams and departments within your company
  • Supports exporting the final campaign draft in a template ready to place a creative production order
  • Connects with Encodify’s Proofing solution, which allows systematising the approval process and minimises the number of iterations needed before the final approval, reducing the time-to-market

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