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RAPS Analysis


Pricing Software Tour - RAPS Analysis

Consumer Centric Price Determination

Revionics price determination engine, RAPS Analysis, is what fuels the price recommendations across all software modules. A blend of both retail pricing science and business rules, RAPS Analysis is highly customizable to meet the exact goals and needs for each retailer in providing optimum results.

A sampling of the RAPS Analysis components is below. Retailers can adjust the configuration any time and re-optimize prices on-demand. Alternately, retailers can leverage our highly experienced Pricing Strategists to tune the Analysis engine based on business goals or pricing strategies. Our price optimization software's customizable settings include:

Demand Analysis:

  • Multinomial Logit (Marketshare) Model
  • Seasonality / Holidays
  • Supply / Demand Impacts
  • Deals / Promotions
  • Weather Effects (Optional)

Elasticity Analysis:

  • Increase / Maintain Revenue $ or %
  • Increase / Maintain Margin $ or %
  • Increase / Maintain Units
  • Brand Equity & Sensitivity
  • Manages brand sensitivity relationships

Margin Analysis:

  • Processes cost changes
  • Allows target margins to be set.
  • Finds best items for price changes

Volume Analysis:

  • Adjust item prices to achieve “Sweet Spot” between margins & movement:

Competitor Analysis:

  • Competitor Indexing
  • Prioritizes or Weights Response

Good-Better-Best Analysis:

  • Private Label – National Brands
  • Brand Equity / Sensitivity

Relational Pricing Analysis:

  • Price Families / Linked Items
  • Price Per Unit - Size / Parity

Ending Number Analysis:

  • Round Up / Down
  • Evaluates Multiples vs. Each

Market Basket Analytics:

  • Item Affinity
  • Cannibalization

Markdown Analysis:

  • Optimal clearance of inventory
  • Increases sell-thru or margin

Promotion Analysis:

  • Recommends best promotional items
  • Recommends best promotional offers
  • Supports Ads, Events, and TPRs
  • Forecasts lift and promotional impact
  • Promotion Frequency Analysis

RAPS Analysis - Strategy Configuration

Retailers have the flexibility to configure the analysis engine at all levels of the enterprise or product hierarchy. For example, retailers can have a unique price strategy for each banner, each department within the banner, and even down to the item level.

Set unique strategies for demand groups (Key Value Items) across departments, categories and subcategories.