Monitor pricing health from the dashboard
12 min
monitor pricing health from the dashboard business goal use the dashboard to identify export readiness, pricing exceptions, projected impact, and assortment trends before price changes reach stores prerequisites open dashboard from the main navigation ensure the latest optimization run and source data are available have access to exports docid\ ayu6zunb35nqkubun3bpf , price management docid\ rs0z8lfkdpage86wko0qc , and what if scenarios docid\ jxdsf asyzjal7vezrhmi for drill down review step by step instructions step 1 establish the daily pricing health view on the dashboard, review the standard export, last standard export, families docid\ w6vf3xs cr5mrsz25s5rg , multibuy, alerts, and impact of new regular prices cards use this top level view to prioritize operational risks before investigating individual products or categories business reason the dashboard consolidates the status of current pricing work, so managers can distinguish urgent exceptions from normal optimization activity establish the daily pricing health view step 2 validate export readiness review the standard export card for the remaining review time and counts of new prices, manually adjusted prices, and deleted prices; then select the card to open the export review in export content, compare new price with current price, difference, margin difference, cost, and available competitor measures before the export is released business reason this confirms that proposed regular price changes are commercially acceptable and that the export will deliver the intended store prices validate export readiness step 3 prioritize active alerts review the alerts card, starting with the most numerous alert types, then select an alert type to open the filtered product list in price management investigate affected products and their applicable price rules before deciding whether a correction or exception is required business reason alerts identify products or families requiring attention, such as pricing conditions that could expose margin, competitive position, or data quality risk prioritize active alerts step 4 assess the impact of new regular prices select the impact of new regular prices card to open what if scenarios and compare store prices with the current strategy and an alternative scenario review projected profit, revenue, volume, margin, and competitor indexes, together with the distribution of price changes business reason impact of new regular prices shows the projected commercial impact of applying the current new prices, allowing managers to validate the trade off between financial performance and market position assess the impact of new regular prices step 5 check trend and promotion context return to the dashboard and use the history tracking chart to review regular margin movement and markers for scenario changes and pricing rule changes compare this with revenue by sales type and the promotions panel, where bubble size represents promotion revenue and color represents revenue uplift business reason trend context helps separate the effect of regular pricing from promo price and multibuy activity, and highlights promotions that may warrant follow up you're done when you can state whether the next standard export is within its review window and how many new prices it contains you have identified the highest priority alerts and opened the affected product list for review you have reviewed the projected profit, revenue, volume, margin, and competitor index effect of the current new prices you can relate regular margin movement and sales type trends to recent pricing or promotion activity pro tips use the dashboard as a triage view; make product level decisions in price management rather than applying manual price changes as a routine response when a competitor index differs by location, investigate in a by zone view because a product can have different new price and current price values per zone