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AcuPriceWholesale Price Modeling and Rate Generation A key component of Margin Management is aligning pricing with the underlying cost structure of the network. AcuPrice is the module in the Acuité suite that provides carriers with a sophisticated tool for establishing price plans for their wholesale customers. AcuPrice leverages the carrier’s actual cost data from AcuCDR and AcuRate, allowing the carrier pricing analyst to construct a variety of pricing scenarios based on cost, capacity, traffic, tariff rates, and other key information. AcuPrice provides the flexibility to rapidly devise (and revise) multiple pricing models and rate sheets – an important tool for insuring wholesale customer contracts provide target margins. AcuPrice is designed to focus on the pricing (revenue) variable of the margin equation as opposed to focusing on cost controls. It enables telcos to leverage highly granular CDR information with its two main components – the Price Plan Analysis Tool and Wholesale Customer Rate Sheet. AcuPrice’s Price Plan Analysis Tool provides a graphical interface for analysts to model costs or ‘rack rates’ at the NPA-NXX level by incorporating CDR data on costs, jurisdiction, traffic, and vendor distribution. Its flexibility enables easy plug-and-play of such dynamics as minutes of use, distribution of minutes, and other cost and capacity parameters. With the tool, pricing analysts construct models that incorporate a comprehensive set of cost dynamics that are germane to pricing. The tool generates reports that are made available to the Wholesale Customer Rate Sheet for margin analysis and customer rate sheet generation. AcuPrice’s Wholesale Customer Rate Sheet feature enables sales people and financial analysts to fine-tune prospective pricing models, beginning with an easy-to-use generic rate plan template. It is an invaluable tool for generating multiple scenarios for use in negotiations with a wholesale customer. The Rate Sheet allows customization for target margins, jurisdiction (InterState and IntraState), product, and supports a variety of tiered pricing plans. Deployed either as a standalone tool or as a module in a broader deployment of Vero’s Acuité software, AcuPrice enables carriers to rapidly and accurately respond to changing business conditions and provides a foundation for driving pricing sophistication to the next level. |
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