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Trade spend isn't just a cost of doing business — it's an investment.

Vividly gives you detailed trade spend analysis so you can quickly identify your highest performing trade promotions and make smarter business decisions, faster.

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Get Granular With Your Trade Spend Analysis

Have Your Most Important KPIs Rght At Your Fingertips

 Understand your best and worst promotions, how you’re tracking to your original budget and plan, and what your upcoming promotions schedule looks like with our in-depth reporting dashboards.

Improve Visibility into Your Trade Spend ROI

Vividly provides in-depth trade spend analysis, enabling you to get granular with your data. Our user-friendly reporting dashboards enable greater visibility into trade spend ROI, so you can base decisions on facts, rather than assumptions.

Segment Analyses by Customer, Product, SKU, or promotion type

Increase visibility into your trade spending and performance like never before. Vividly's analytics dashboards keep you agile, allowing you to quickly segment your trade spend analysis by product, end-customer, promotion type, or SKU.

90%

Reduction in deduction-
processing labor

21%

Improvement in
planning accuracy.

74%

Increase in contract
backup compliance.

19%

Reduction in unexpected
trade dollars.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is trade spend analytics, and why is it important for CPG brands?

What is trade spend analytics, and why is it important for CPG brands? Trade spend analytics is the process of analyzing and interpreting data related to trade promotion spending in the CPG industry. It helps CPG brands understand the effectiveness of their promotional activities and identify areas for improvement. CPG analytics is essential as it provides insights into marketing and sales performance, allowing brands to optimize their promotional strategies and maximize ROI.

How can trade spend analytics help improve ROI on trade promotions?

Trade spend analytics helps improve ROI on trade promotions by providing CPG sales analytics and insights into the effectiveness of different promotional activities. By leveraging analytics in the CPG industry, brands can identify successful promotions and allocate resources more efficiently. Furthermore, CPG marketing analytics can help pinpoint underperforming promotions and adjust strategies to achieve better results. Ultimately, data-driven decision-making leads to improved ROI.

How can CPG brands effectively allocate their trade spend budget to maximize ROI?

CPG brands can effectively allocate their trade spend budget by leveraging predictive analytics for CPG and data analytics in the CPG industry. Vividly offers powerful predictive analytics capabilities that enable brands to analyze historical data and promotional performance, allowing them to forecast future sales and allocate their trade spend budget more effectively.

With Vividly's advanced analytics features, CPG brands can identify the most profitable promotional activities and prioritize resources accordingly. By focusing on high-impact promotions and making data-driven decisions, brands can optimize their trade spend allocation and maximize ROI.

How can CPG brands leverage historical data for better trade spend planning and forecasting?

CPG brands can leverage historical data by analyzing past promotional performance and market trends to make more informed decisions about their trade spend planning and forecasting. Vividly, a leading trade promotion management solution, can help CPG brands access and analyze their historical data through its user-friendly platform, providing valuable insights for improved decision-making.

With Vividly, brands can easily track their CPG sales data and performance metrics, uncover trends and patterns, and optimize their promotional strategies based on data-driven insights. Additionally, Vividly's advanced analytics capabilities can help brands forecast future sales and promotional effectiveness, allowing for more strategic allocation of resources and maximizing ROI.By leveraging historical data and the powerful analytics tools provided by Vividly, CPG brands can optimize their trade spend planning and forecasting, resulting in more successful promotions and long-term growth.

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Best-In-Class CPG TPM Software & Services. Vividly has built out an amazing software and an experienced services team that serves all A/R and Promotion needs for CPG brands. They are continuously adding new offerings.
Director of Finance and Strategy, Munk Pack
Vividly has significantly automated and improved the manual processes of baseline forecasting, trade promotions management and deductions management for us. Vividly management team is very collaborative, they are best-in-class in terms of resolving any performance issues while continously working on product enhancements.
CFO, Health-Ade
I’ve been a customer of Vividly’s for 2 years and the ability to quickly onboard, especially surrounding new deployments, has allowed our business to make smarter, quicker business decisions. Vividly is an agile team that releases new products tailored to what we need. They speak the same language that we do. We’re a fast-moving food brand with a lean team. It’s imperative to have software that easily immerses itself into our day-to-day operations while providing a dashboard that showcases the performance of our top retailers. I’ve vetted other trade software in the space that doesn’t come close to the machine-learning capabilities that Vividly has. Their customer support is outstanding, I have no issues getting some time with the ondemand chat or my own personal customer success manager.
Director of Sales, Good Good
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.
VP of Sales, Lesser Evil
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.
National Sales Director, Wild Planet
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.
President, Jovial
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.
Director of Finance, Simple Mills
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.
Revenue & Trade Operations Manager, Amy's
"Working with Vividly Deductions Services has truly enhanced our practices of managing trade spend in just 6 months. From financials review, to predicting cash flow, to eliminating manual deductions processes, our entire team has benefitted from Vividly’s highly efficient and organized platform. As a small business, this has been crucial to allowing us more time to focus on growth and goals.”
Accounting, Artisan Tropic
“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.”
Fmr SVP of Sales, Perfect Snacks

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Best-In-Class CPG TPM Software & Services. Vividly has built out an amazing software and an experienced services team that serves all A/R and Promotion needs for CPG brands. They are continuously adding new offerings.
Director of Finance and Strategy, Munk Pack
Vividly has significantly automated and improved the manual processes of baseline forecasting, trade promotions management and deductions management for us. Vividly management team is very collaborative, they are best-in-class in terms of resolving any performance issues while continously working on product enhancements.
CFO, Health-Ade
I’ve been a customer of Vividly’s for 2 years and the ability to quickly onboard, especially surrounding new deployments, has allowed our business to make smarter, quicker business decisions. Vividly is an agile team that releases new products tailored to what we need. They speak the same language that we do. We’re a fast-moving food brand with a lean team. It’s imperative to have software that easily immerses itself into our day-to-day operations while providing a dashboard that showcases the performance of our top retailers. I’ve vetted other trade software in the space that doesn’t come close to the machine-learning capabilities that Vividly has. Their customer support is outstanding, I have no issues getting some time with the ondemand chat or my own personal customer success manager.
Director of Sales, Good Good
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.
National Sales Director, Wild Planet
“Choosing Vividly was a no-brainer. They have trade management for brands like us down to a science.”
VP of Sales, Bulletproof
“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.”
Fmr SVP of Sales, Perfect Snacks
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.
President, Jovial
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.
Revenue & Trade Operations Manager, Amy's

90%

Reduction in deduction-
processing labor

21%

Improvement in
planning accuracy.

74%

Increase in contract
backup compliance.

19%

Reduction in unexpected
trade dollars.

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deductions
management

promotion
creation

trade
optimization

Data &
insights

deductions
management

Vividly

Vividly +

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

Indirect budgeting

Historical lift of similar past promotions for easy planning

Vividly

Vividly +

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

Vividly

Vividly +

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)

Vividly

Vividly +

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 with retroactive lift, compliance tracking, and promotion timeline overlay

Revenue, spend, and trade rates by customer

Live accruals interface with proposed reversals

ROI Analysis to improve spend efficiency

Vividly

Vividly +

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

trade
planning
promotion
creation
trade
optimization
Data &
insights
deductions
management

Vividly

Vividly +

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

Indirect budgeting

Historical lift of similar past promotions for easy planning

Vividly

Vividly +

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

Vividly

Vividly +

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)

Vividly

Vividly +

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 with retroactive lift, compliance tracking, and promotion timeline overlay

Revenue, spend, and trade rates by customer

Live accruals interface with proposed reversals

ROI Analysis to improve spend efficiency

Vividly

Vividly +

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

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