KC Value Creating Services

Pricing Audit

  • Review and benchmark current pricing strategies, tactics, execution, compliance and stewardship processes and tools against best practices and identify opportunities for improvement.

Pricing Strategy and Tactics

  • Review pricing strategy and alignment with overall objectives and brand positioning.
  • Review and develop market, site and product level tactics and processes to ensure that they stay current and support your objectives.
  • Provide market and competitive knowledge to assist with tactical response.
  • Assist with fuels buy price/acquisition cost determination.
  • Input on response to competitive discounting or very dynamic pricing.
  • Develop fuel or cross merchandising programs.
  • Conduct reviews of challenging pricing markets.

Pricing Organizational Design and Management

  • Evaluate your pricing organizational design, including reporting relationships, interaction with the rest of the organization and skills and capability.
  • Provide pricing training to improve the skills and capability of your team.

Processes and Systems

  • Review key Company Management and Independent Dealer Pricing processes.
  • Advise on new pricing system evaluation and selection.
  • Identify pricing automation and operational efficiency opportunities in areas of price increases, decreases, data transmission and compliance.
  • Assess effectiveness of Field Sales Force and Site operating pricing procedures.

Analytics and Decision Support Tools

  • Advise on analytics and decision support tools opportunities, including reporting, compliance, performance and execution tracking tools.
  • Evaluate competitive pricing survey data integrity and gathering processes.

Acquisitions & Litigation

  • Provide expert opinion for litigation or government enquiries.
  • Support acquisitions and merger of pricing processes/systems.
  • Input on margin determination for market and site investment decisions.