Proactive trade terms management is a great deal for Pietercil Group

FMCG distributor connects silos and builds insight-rich trade terms management to support rapid, fact-based decision-making

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With Anaplan, we have deep insights into our profitability. It helps us during negotiations to really decide where we will invest, in what brand, at what customer.
Stéphanie Teetaert, General Manager, Pietercil Group

20%

less time spent during budgeting cycles by automating data chores

Deep

insights support fact-based decision-making on key deals

Time savings

used for analysis, decision making, and recommendations to the business



One key to success for fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) distributor Pietercil Group is the deal-making experience with retailers and brands. That expertise is powered by rapid access to accurate data. Moving trade terms management to Anaplan has delivered the deep, immediate insights that the Pietercil team needs to make fast, smart trading decisions. The new solution also saves the company precious time and has created a platform to build scenarios and create future growth and new opportunities.

Pietercil Group is one of the largest fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) distributors in Benelux and France. Over 90 brands trust Pietercil’s brokerage, which works every day to make sure that the company’s distribution deals make money for the company and its brand partners.

In this environment, agility is a core ingredient for success. “One challenge we face is the need to be very responsive and proactive,” explains Stéphanie Teetaert, General Manager of Pietercil’s brokerage business. “This means being faster than our competitors and responsive to our partners. This requires planning tools that make data accessible, allow scenario-building, and that support fast decision-making.”

Pietercil has trade agreements with each of its brand partners that determine purchasing volumes and pricing. Brokers regularly review these terms to ensure ongoing profitability. For years, this analysis used thousands of complex spreadsheets. The process was labor-intensive, time consuming, error-prone, and resulted in data silos.

Turning to trusted solutions

To boost distributor efficiency and strike more winning deals, Pietercil set out to move trade terms management to Anaplan. “We already used Anaplan in our supply chain and sales teams, and are already a connected community to Anaplan, so it was logical to leverage our experience with the platform further,” says Teetaert. “Anaplan is very intuitive to use, and enables many people to work with the same data at the same time. That helps us to have constructive discussions and make sound decisions.”

Pietercil enlisted Deloitte to help build a new Anaplan model and connect it with existing supply chain and finance data in Anaplan. “Connectedness means a lot to me and my colleagues,” reflects Teetaert. “When you’re on the same page you have open discussions and create one way of working. In the end, that brings customer centricity into our work.”

Achieving greater visibility

With the new trade terms management solution, Pietercil’s brokerage has faster access to key information when negotiating deals. “With Anaplan, we have deep insights into our profitability,” explains Teetaert. “It helps us during negotiations to really decide where we will invest, in what brand, at what customer. Our people can make better fact-based decisions and create the best value for the company.”

They’re also saving significant time. “We save 20% of the time during the budgeting period just from data entry,” says Teetaert. “That time is used for more analysis, better decisions, and making recommendations to the business. It’s critical to really have good tooling and good planning that makes data very visible, and creates one vision of the truth, and allows us to make fast decisions.”

In the future, the Pietercil team expects that using the Anaplan platform will help it outpace competitors and drive expansion. “What is most exciting to me is to think about growth, about opportunities,” concludes Teetaert. “When I look at Anaplan today, and the opportunities it offers, I’m pretty sure that we will be able to really focus on growth, focus on new ideas, focus on new opportunities.”

Stéphanie Teetaert, General Manager, Pietercil Group: When teams feel really connected, people deliver better towards customers. And in the end, that’s what matters most in a company — that customer-centricity.

At Pietercil Group we have two business pillars. The one business pillar is Beliès, which is producing and commercializing Mediterranean fresh products like olives, dips, and antipasti. And next to that, we have the brokerage business, which is distribution of brands in the Benelux and France.

For us, it’s critical to really have good tooling and good planning that makes data very visible and it creates one vision of the truth and it allows us to make fast decisions.

In our company, we already use Anaplan in many areas. We started with supply chain demand planning, but later on finance and sales. And it helps us during negotiations to really decide where we will invest — on what brand, at what customer.

What is most exciting to me is to think about growth, about opportunities. And when I look at Anaplan today and the opportunities it offers, I’m pretty sure that we are able to really focus on growth, focus on new ideas, focus on new opportunities.

I’m Stéphanie Teetaert, General Manager at the Pietercil Group, and we plan with Anaplan.

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