The Current State of Pricing – 2023 Recession
A note from Iris Pricing Solutions President: Kirk Jackisch As we approach the end of 2022, it is clear that pricing leaders will need to navigate a very unpredictable market…perhaps more than ever before. With this uncertainty, leaders must employ resilient, proactive, and competitive pricing strategies. What We Saw [...]
Pricing a Digital MedTech Device for use in Clinical Trials
About the Device Our client, an established manufacturer of syringes, had developed a prototype digital injection device designed for use in clinical trials. This data-enabled injection device would automatically capture injection data without interfering with the injection device's usability. Specifically, the device would capture the start/stop time, completion and [...]
Power of Pricing Analytics in Retail and E-Tail Decision Making GalleryPower of Pricing Analytics in Retail and E-Tail Decision Making
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Power of Pricing Analytics in Retail and E-Tail Decision Making
By: Ben Garden, Director of Analytics, Iris Pricing Solutions There are significant benefits to working with a team who has high-level pricing analytical skills and can use your company's data to inform pricing and create new pricing opportunities, especially in the areas of e-commerce and competitive intelligence. Leveraging your [...]
Getting Everyone Onboard for Price Increases
Price actions are not unique Companies are constantly testing the extent of their pricing power. Faced with rising costs for materials, transportation, and workers, companies are charging more for products from metal fasteners to Oreo cookies. The primary response to inflation is to become more efficient, but inflation is [...]
Pricing Solutions x (NRA) National Restaurant Association
Menu Price Increases Require a Strategic Approach "Between inflation and supply chain shortages, there are a plethora of issues affecting restaurants’ bottom lines. This has led many to adjust menu prices—according to a recent survey, 91% of operators have done so. How do you know when it’s time to [...]
What Happens to Pricing When Demand Falls?
By: Kirk Jackisch, President, Iris Pricing Solutions Over the last 18 months, B2B businesses have been faced with three major challenges. Labor shortages, procuring materials, and the inflation in their cost of goods, which for some specific products has hit numbers in the low to mid-double digits – increases [...]
Leveraging Pricing in a Competitive E-Commerce Environment
Background Our client with over $100 million in revenue annually, sells original and aftermarket parts for automotive enthusiasts. They cater to individuals with private garages and lifts, and of the components they sell, almost 60% are for Ford Mustang, Jeep, and Chevy vehicles. During the pandemic, many enthusiasts had [...]
Using Research to Optimize Pricing Structure
Establish a logical offer structure built on customers' key value drivers The client was a large doggy day care and dog grooming service provider planning a large expansion in the following year more than doubling the number of locations. The locations were operated by franchisees who had autonomy on [...]
Using Competitive Intelligence to Enhance Pricing
The client is a global online B2B retailer that supports its global pharmaceutical, bio-pharma, and food industry clients with its thousands of quality products. With thousands of different substances per industry being sold in 15 countries, the client had no way to track what products their competitor was selling, [...]
Value-Based Pricing & Revenue Management
What is Revenue Management? Revenue management is the business discipline that predicts consumer behavior at the micro-market levels and optimize product availability and price to optimize and/or maximize revenue There are several components to revenue management: product + customer + timing + pricing. The goal of revenue management is to align all four [...]
Menu Prices Must Increase This Spring, But By How Much?
By Craig Singleton, Director of Restaurant Strategy, Iris Pricing Solutions Spring is here and it's the ideal time to re-evaluate menus and reconsider pricing. Producing new menu items or switching to a seasonal menu necessitates a consideration of current pricing. Many large, multi-unit restaurant brands procrastinate on pricing out [...]
Cost Spikes, Inflation, and Supply Shortages remain as the top economic challenge in 2022 GalleryCost Spikes, Inflation, and Supply Shortages remain as the top economic challenge in 2022
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Cost Spikes, Inflation, and Supply Shortages remain as the top economic challenge in 2022
Last year we asked the question Can You Protect Your Business and Clients from Cost Shocks? While we may have all hoped that the surge in the cost of raw materials and Pandemic-related disruptions would dissipate, the truth is that we're now in a significant period of inflation with [...]
Measuring the Impact of Promotion Sales in Food Service
Cost pressures and an increasingly competitive market have resulted in severe price increases across the restaurant industry. Research by the National Restaurant Association has found that menu prices on average have increased 4.7% percent last year, and quick service has increased by 6.7% - which was the highest increase [...]
Understanding the Financial Impact of COVID is Critical for Survival of Med-Tech Suppliers
For medical technology suppliers, the COVID-19 pandemic is fraught with possibilities and challenges. Navigating these challenges and reaping the opportunities requires careful consideration of the financial impact of COVID-19 on hospitals and the health care industry as a whole. Translating this understanding into relevant offerings and thoughtful pricing strategies [...]
Utilizing Data Intelligence to Drive Loyalty in UK cinemas
Subscription Pricing in the Leisure IndustryA Private Equity firm with portfolio interests in the cinema and general leisure industriesWithin the cinema industry, they wanted to understand the role of loyalty programs, including ‘all-you-can-eat’ subscription offersDue to constraints on their resources, there was no access to sales data, internal staff information, [...]
4 Expert Tips to Approach Pricing as a Marketer
“If you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by 10 percent, then you've got a terrible business.” – Warren Buffett By: Ed Heskins, Director of Pricing Strategy (UK) Prices are going up. As supply costs start to bite, wages increase and government relief is [...]
Transforming Pricing Model to Uncover Revenue
Our client was a global e-commerce platform with over 600K active users, consisting of small to large-sized online merchants. They contacted the Pricing Solutions team to help them develop a value-based pricing strategy, for maximum financial impact. Our team: Gathered & Analyzed Data Conducted Market Research Improved Existing Pricing [...]
Pricing and Digitization: Parallel Journeys to Success and Survival
Iris Pricing Solutions has launched a special report entitled ‘Pricing and Digitization: Parallel Journeys to Success and Survival’, demonstrating how pricing, marketing, and sales can benefit from better data capture and use that data to increase customer segmentation, improve value propositions, and better understand consumer behavior. Companies in the [...]
5 Ways B2Bs Are Using AI to Enhance Pricing
By: Greg Thomas, Vice President of Pricing Research and Insights In our recent article Should You Be Concerned about Price Collusion? we discussed the ethics behind artificial intelligence and pricing. Most people are familiar with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine intelligence (MI), terms that are used interchangeably to describe the [...]
Should You Be Concerned about Price Collusion? – Machine Intelligence
By: Greg Thomas, Vice President of Pricing Research and Insights What impact, if any, does machine intelligence (MI) have on your day-to-day life? Well, when you booked your last flight the price you paid was likely calculated using some form of a machine-driven algorithm. In fact, next time you [...]