Summary:
Everest Global Discount Engine (GDE) is Ingram Micro’s unified platform for managing discounts across regions, systems, and customer segments. This FAQ provides clear, concise answers to common questions about how GDE works, its benefits, system integrations, supported discount types, and its role in streamlining pricing and quoting strategies across the enterprise.
Table of Contents:
What is Everest Global Discount Engine GDE?
What are the key advantages of using Everest GDE?
How is Everest GDE integrated with other systems like COP and GPE?
What are the future integration plans for Everest GDE?
What types of discounts are supported by Everest GDE?
What are the prerequisites for implementing Everest GDE?
Is Everest GDE available for all regions and countries served by Ingram Micro?
How will Everest GDE affect our daily operations and pricing strategies?
Question 1: What is Everest Global Discount Engine GDE?
Answer: Everest GDE is a centralized system designed to manage and automate various discount types across different systems. It consolidates and streamlines discount management, reducing dependency on multiple systems.
Question 2: What are the key advantages of using Everest GDE?
Answer:
Consolidation of discount management.
Management of bid ingestion, vendor discount programs, and combinability rules in one platform.
Scalability and customization based on regions.
Question 3: How is Everest GDE integrated with other systems like COP and GPE?
Answer: GDE functions as a backend in countries that utilize Vendor Bid Pricing tools for their discount management. Countries that do not utilize Vendor Bid Pricing tools will directly interact with GDE. GDE and GPE (Global Price Engine) are closely integrated for pricing and discount management, regardless of whether the country uses Vendor Bid Pricing tools or not. For instance, when a pricing and availability (PNA) call is made from any Xvantage platform to GPE, GPE retrieves the relevant discounts from GDE and returns a response with the applicable discounts and final price.
Question 4: What are the future integration plans for Everest GDE?
Answer: Future plans include an auto quote feature customized by vendors, a GDE-UI for advanced deal management, support for digital SKUs, multi-currency capabilities, and country-specific vendor programs and discount types. In addition, GDE UI will be seamlessly integrated with X4A.
Question 5: What types of discounts are supported by Everest GDE?
Answer: In Phase 1, Everest GDE supports various discount types, including end user discounts, company-wide discounts, customer-specific discounts, promotions, and authorization/tier discounts. In the future, it will also support KIT SKU discounts, BTL/BDF functionality, and vendor discounts based on market segments.
Question 6: What are the prerequisites for implementing Everest GDE?
Answer: Prerequisites include Vendor Discounts Mapping, Parsing Documentation, UAT Support for testing, Change Management Preparation, and GPE Rollout for all customers with bid pricing rule support.
Question 7: Is Everest GDE available for all regions and countries served by Ingram Micro?
Answer: Yes, Everest GDE is designed to be a scalable solution that can be customized based on regional or country-specific requirements.
Question 8: How will Everest GDE affect our daily operations and pricing strategies?
Answer: Everest GDE is designed to streamline discounts and automate quoting. It aims to make your daily operations more efficient and accurate.