Driving Pricing Excellence through Intelligent Automation for a Global Manufacturing Services Leader
Managing pricing operations across an extensive global manufacturing network called for precise coordination among regions and business units. Each division operated with its own systems, templates, and data sources for pricing and commodity management, leading to diverse practices that required careful synchronization. Teams devoted substantial time and attention to aligning data across regions, validating inputs, and ensuring consistency in price calculations. This variety in approaches highlighted an opportunity to establish a more standardized framework that could streamline processes, enhance collaboration, and enable accurate, timely insights across markets.
Visibility into price trends and market performance varied among regional teams, underscoring the need for a single, real-time view of global pricing data. As information was distributed across multiple platforms, reporting and analysis often required cross-functional coordination. Leadership identified the value of a unified digital platform that could integrate pricing workflows, strengthen governance, and enable seamless information sharing between global and regional teams. By centralizing pricing intelligence and enhancing transparency, the organization aimed to improve responsiveness, optimize decisions, and support long-term business resilience.
To address the complexity of global pricing operations, the organization implemented the Cherrywork Intelligent Price Management (IPM) solution, built on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). This intelligent, cloud-based platform was designed to bring all pricing-related processes, data, and insights into one unified system. It provided a single source of truth for global and divisional teams, enabling standardized workflows and real-time visibility across the entire pricing lifecycle. Through automated data synchronization with SAP and other connected systems, the solution ensured that pricing information remained accurate, up to date, and readily available for strategic analysis.