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What’s Eating Food Service Distributors?

What’s Eating Food Service Distributors?

Back for the second time, Zilliant Business Solutions Consultant Vishal Asatkar joins us to share his eye-opening insights in the world of food service distribution. When we last had Vishal on, he focused on the challenges facing food manufacturers in the middle of a pandemic. Now he sheds light on...

Rolling with the Crises

Rolling with the Crises

Just over a year ago, we had Capital Pricing Consultants CEO & Founder Lydia DiLiello on the show to trade ideas for pricing in an unprecedented pandemic. Whereas back then the concern was avoiding a race to the bottom, the opposite challenge is now raging through B2B pricing departments. With t...

What is Next-Gen Price Optimization?

What is Next-Gen Price Optimization?

We are joined by the “Godfather of Zilliant” Pete Eppele, senior vice president of products and science, to explore the concept of next-generation price optimization. Pete explains how the pandemic shined a light on the need for more advanced science and faster, more specific pricing capabilities as...

B2B Reimagined: Ep 32 | Pricing: The New CEO Imperative w/ Stephan Liozu

B2B Reimagined: Ep 32 | Pricing: The New CEO Imperative w/ Stephan Liozu

We are joined by author and pricing evangelist Stephan Liozu on the eve of the release of his new book, Pricing: The New CEO Imperative. Liozu has spent the better part of two years interviewing C-Suite executives, pricing consultants and software vendors around the globe to curate this first-of-its...

Exceptional CX with Accelalpha’s Devang Bhavsar

Exceptional CX with Accelalpha’s Devang Bhavsar

Today we are joined by Accelalpha’s Devang Bhavsar. In his role as Partner, CX & ERP Practice, Devang is focused on helping companies make it easy for their customers to do business with them. As digital commerce becomes dominant, “customer experience will overtake price and product as the key b...

Pricing in Times of Inflation with pwc’s David Moss

Pricing in Times of Inflation with pwc’s David Moss

Today we are joined by pwc Consumer Markets Pricing and Profitability Practice Leader David Moss, for a timely conversation on pricing strategy amidst an impending inflationary period. David brings decades of consulting experience to our discussion, sharing strategies forged in the crucible of the 2...

Optimizing Quote-to-Cash with Salesforce’s Erwan Kerebel

Optimizing Quote-to-Cash with Salesforce’s Erwan Kerebel

Today we are joined by Salesforce Sr. Director of Product Management, Quote-to-Cash Solutions Erwan Kerebel for a breakdown of challenges, opportunities and reimagined solutions within the Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) space.Kerebel outlined three focus areas for manufacturers: faster quote turnarou...

How to Be Ready for a Price Optimization Project

How to Be Ready for a Price Optimization Project

Former client and longtime friend of Zilliant Pat Curtin joins host Rick Chappell, senior vice president of services and customer success, to share exciting news about his new pricing consultancy as part of a wide-ranging conversation about the steps needed to pave the way for a successful pricing i...

Dynamic eCommerce Pricing with Digital Commerce 360’s Paul Demery

Dynamic eCommerce Pricing with Digital Commerce 360’s Paul Demery

Paul Demery, editor at Digital Commerce 360, joins host Barrett Thompson for a candid chat about the urgency thrust onto B2B companies to sell online in a pandemic-induced paradigm shift. Listen to learn why eCommerce pricing must be dynamic and how to accomplish a consistent, real-time pricing stra...

Pressing Questions for Parts Suppliers

Pressing Questions for Parts Suppliers

Business Solutions Consultant Tim Mohnke returns for a follow-up episode on auto parts/aftermarket manufacturing. How has the electric car trend changed the game for auto parts suppliers? How can they navigate tariffs, which are expected to continue for the foreseeable future? How can...

Optimizing Contribution Margin in Food Production

Optimizing Contribution Margin in Food Production

Zilliant Chief Marketing Officer Lindsay Duran and Senior Director, Solutions Consulting Vishal Asatkar have logged many hundreds of miles visiting customers and prospects together over the years. The pair teams up again for an intensive look into the factors that drive total margin in the food prod...

Electronic Components Distributors Face a Changed World

Electronic Components Distributors Face a Changed World

Even before COVID-19 changed everything, distributors in the electronic components industry were dealing with seismic shifts. The dawn of 5G, the explosion of IoT and the ever-shortening product lifecycle combined to create complex business challenges and new opportunities to capture. The pandemic p...

What to Expect at MindShare 2020

What to Expect at MindShare 2020

This episode features a lively preview of Zilliant MindShare 2020, the premier B2B pricing and sales conference, which is going virtual for the first time on Oct. 27-29. Event MCs Barrett Thompson and Rick Chappell joined the show to explain how though the format may be new, the customer stories, th...

Speed-Accuracy-Completeness: You Can Have it All

Speed-Accuracy-Completeness: You Can Have it All

You’ve probably heard the old adage: “We can get it done right, we can get it done fast or we can do it for cheap.” For high-tech manufacturers and technology providers, the same concept applies to their quoting and offer creation processes. Most can consistently do a good job of delivering quotes w...

Commercial Challenges in Specialty Chemicals Distribution

Commercial Challenges in Specialty Chemicals Distribution

Dr. Steve Laborda, chief executive officer of ValueBiz Booster, joins our show to discuss the importance of commercial excellence in the specialty chemicals distribution industry. Laborda and host Barrett Thompson diagnose the biggest challenges facing these businesses, including increased complexit...

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