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How Manufacturers Can Leverage the Power of Pricing to Increase Profits
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Your business is more complex than ever before.
How do you find ways to improve profits in this environment? Pricing is very powerful lever to improve profits but few companies have truly taken advantage of it.
During this webinar, we discuss practical fixes that manufacturers can quickly leverage to improve profits. We share customer case studies and provide insights into the role that technology can play in improving margins.
What you will learn:
- Low cost manufacturers from around the world are producing competitive products at a lower price point.
- Increasing raw material and energy costs are eating into margins.
- Compressed product lifecycles are commoditizing products at a faster pace than ever before.
Listen Now and learn how you can protect and improve your company's profits in this difficult environment.
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 |  | Chris ChiappinelliOnline Editor, Managing AutomationChris Chiappinelli joined Managing Automation as Managing Editor in 2005 and became editor of ManagingAutomation.com in 2007. Prior to that, he spent five years as associate editor and online manager of Area Development, a magazine dedicated to facility planning for manufacturers, and the leading publication in its field. Chris attended the Newhouse School at Syracuse University and graduated with a degree in magazine communications. |
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|  | Noha TohamyResearch Director, AMR Research, IncAs a research director on AMR Research’s Market Services team, Noha Tohamy is responsible for the research and analysis of market trends and technologies in supply chain risk management, strategic network design, inventory management and optimization, demand planning and collaborative forecasting, and price management and optimization. Noha has over fifteen years of experience in supply chain management.
Before joining AMR Research, Noha was an independent supply chain consultant, helping various vendors and user companies with messaging, competitive landscape analysis, and technology selection decisions. Prior to that, Noha served as a principal analyst at Forrester Research, where her coverage areas included global supply chain management, trade management, inventory management, transportation management, collaborative demand planning, price optimization and others. Before Forrester, Noha held various senior management and technical positions at supply chain technology vendors including Syncra Systems, ProfitLogic, Logistics.com and The Sabre Group. Noha is currently an adjunct professor at Emmanuel College, where she teaches operations and supply chain management. She is a frequent lecturer on global supply chain management topics at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and Georgia Tech’s Supply Chain and Logistics Institute.
Noha graduated from Emory University with a BS in mathematics and from Georgia Institute of Technology with a MS in operations research with a focus on optimization. | |  | Jamie RapperportFounder & EVP Marketing and Business Development, VendavoJamie is the founder & EVP Marketing and Business Development at Vendavo. In his role, he is responsible for corporate marketing, product marketing and business development worldwide. As a founder, Jamie has seen the evolution of the price management and optimization market from an early stage to where it is today. He was worked extensively with customers across multiple industries including manufacturing to help them realize significant value from their investment in the Vendavo suite.
Prior to Vendavo, he served as a founder and vice president of marketing and sales at VXtreme, a leading streaming video technology provider which he helped lead to its category-leading position and subsequent acquisition by Microsoft. He thereafter directed development of strategic partnerships with top telecom companies for Microsoft-owned WebTV Networks. Jamie’s 20 years of experience in the technology sector also includes senior management, product management, marketing, and business development positions with Lotus, Sun Microsystems, and Approach Software.
Jamie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. | |
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