Pricing Enginev1.0.0

Sales teams receive a request from a customer for a specific cable product. They input the SKU, quantity, customer grade, and currency into the pricing engine to instantly receive a dynamic price with margin built in. This reduces manual spreadsheet work and ensures consistent pricing based on copper costs and tiered discounts.

A sales manager needs to generate quotes for a list of products for several clients. Using the batch mode, they provide a JSON file with multiple items and run the engine, which outputs all prices at once and can integrate with quotation-workflow to produce professional PDFs. This streamlines multi-product, multi-customer quoting.

A pricing analyst wants to review past quotes for a specific customer or SKU to inform future negotiations. Using the price-history script with filters by customer, SKU, or date range, they can quickly retrieve records stored in JSONL format. This supports data-driven pricing adjustments.

When LME copper prices change significantly, a specialist can run the pricing engine again for existing quotation items to recalculate costs and margins. The copper-price-adapter reads the latest copper data, ensuring quotes remain profitable. This helps maintain competitive yet safe pricing.

For VIP customers with negotiated fixed prices, the pricing engine checks customer-overrides.json before applying the formula. This allows one-customer-one-price while still recording history and checking floor prices. Useful for key account management in B2B sales.

The pricing engine could be offered as a cloud-based API for small manufacturers who need dynamic pricing but lack development resources. Revenue would come from monthly or per-quote subscriptions.

Large manufacturers integrate the pricing engine directly into their ERP or CRM systems. They pay a one-time license fee plus annual maintenance. Revenue is high upfront with recurring support contracts.

Using the historical price data and analytics from the engine, a consultancy could offer pricing optimization services, helping clients adjust discount rules and margin targets. Revenue comes from project-based consulting fees.