Revenue Growth Management (RGM) Consulting
We help consumer goods, manufacturing and distribution companies grow revenue and margin together through price, pack, promotion, mix and channel terms.
Revenue Growth Management (RGM) Consulting
We help consumer goods, manufacturing and distribution companies grow revenue and margin together through price, pack, promotion, mix and channel terms.
Why Growth in Consumer Goods Does Not Always Become Profit
The national sales director has just closed the annual negotiation with the largest retail chain. The volume commitment looks good, but the agreement adds a new promotional calendar, a higher off-invoice discount and a growth rebate on the whole portfolio. Three months later finance reports that the account grew and its margin fell. Nobody signed a bad deal on purpose. Each concession made sense on its own, and nobody saw them together.
Revenue growth management exists to see them together. In consumer goods, manufacturing and distribution, revenue is shaped by many small decisions spread across teams. Marketing designs packs and promotions, sales negotiates terms with each channel, finance sets list prices from cost plus a margin, and trade spend grows every year without a clear return.
Revenue growth management consulting at ICX Consulting connects those decisions with real cost to serve and with the way the company sells. It is part of the pricing and revenue management practice of ICX Consulting, a Customer Experience and Commercial Strategy firm headquartered in Miami that works with mid-market and enterprise companies.
What Is Revenue Growth Management?
Revenue growth management, often called RGM, is the discipline of growing revenue and margin together by coordinating every commercial lever that affects net price and volume. Some companies call it net revenue management, because its focus is the revenue that remains after discounts, promotions and trade terms. It works best as a management system with rules, data and owners.
Pricing Strategy
List prices and price positioning by brand, category and channel, built from shopper value, competitive position and real cost.
Price Pack Architecture
Pack sizes, formats and price points that give each shopper and channel the right offer, protect price per unit and avoid packs that compete with each other.
Promotions and Trade Spend
Promotional depth, frequency and mechanics judged by their real return, so trade investment funds growth instead of buying volume that would have come anyway.
Product and Channel Mix
Which products, packs and channels to push, based on the margin each one contributes after cost to serve.
Commercial Terms With Channels
Discounts, rebates, payment terms and service levels agreed with retailers, wholesalers and distributors, tied to conditions and measured account by account.
Revenue growth management is not about raising prices. It is about knowing which growth pays.
How Revenue Growth Management Connects With Pricing, Costing and Sales
Revenue growth management fails when it stays in a spreadsheet owned by one team. ICX connects it with three disciplines. The first is cost to serve, measured by customer, channel and product with Costing IQ and activity-based costing. The second is pricing, where the pricing and revenue management practice designs price architecture and discount rules and Pricing IQ keeps them current every month.
The third is the sales model. Through ICX Revenue Architecture, the terms agreed with each channel reach key account plans, the customer relationship management (CRM) system and the quote, so the price leadership approves is the price the team negotiates. That is why our sales consulting services and our pricing work are designed together.
Revenue is designed before the sale, not explained at month end.
How ICX Builds a Revenue Growth Management Capability
- Diagnostic with PCR. PCR, the integral ICX diagnostic of pricing, costing and revenue management, reviews net price, promotions, trade terms, mix and cost to serve by customer and channel.
- Maturity assessment. The Pricing and Revenue Management Maturity Model positions the company and turns the gaps into a prioritized roadmap.
- Design of the levers. We define price corridors, price pack architecture, promotional guidelines, mix priorities and a trade terms policy with approval limits.
- Technology and data. Mid-sized and large companies use Symson for pricing and MyABCM for costing with Power BI, while smaller ones use Power BI and Fabric. Rules reach the quote through HubSpot or Salesforce.
- Monthly management. With Pricing IQ and Costing IQ, ICX reviews results every month and recommends adjustments when costs, competitors or channels move.
Want to know which growth pays in your portfolio? Talk with our pricing team.
Who Revenue Growth Management Is For
Revenue growth management was born in consumer goods, but the same logic applies wherever a company sells through channels and negotiates terms with them.
- Consumer goods manufacturers that sell to supermarkets, wholesalers and traditional trade, with many packs and promotions.
- Industrial manufacturers that sell through distributors and dealers, with price lists, rebates and volume agreements.
- Distributors and importers that manage large portfolios, supplier costs that change often and margins that depend on mix.
Consumer goods, energy and telecommunications companies such as Nestlé, Gerber, Chevron and AT&T have trusted ICX Consulting. The practice is led by Iván Arroyo, Director of the Pricing and Revenue Management Practice, with 25 years of experience at EY, KPMG and ICX Consulting.
Is trade spend growing faster than sales? Let us review your revenue growth together.
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Pricing, Costing and Quoting Technology We Implement
Symson, MyABCM, Power BI, HubSpot and Salesforce.
Pricing, Costing and Quoting Technology We Implement
Symson, MyABCM, Power BI, HubSpot and Salesforce.
MyABCM and Power BI
MyABCM automates activity-based costing and is the tool ICX uses with Costing IQ for mid-sized and large companies, with Power BI dashboards for leadership. Smaller companies run the same model on the Microsoft stack with Power BI and Fabric.
Salesforce
As a Salesforce Consulting Partner, ICX configures price books, discount approvals and quoting in Salesforce and connects them with pricing and costing data, so every quote follows the same rules.
Symson
Symson is the pricing and price optimization software ICX uses in Pricing IQ for mid-sized and large companies. It brings price lists, discount rules and price recommendations into one governed place, under the rules your leadership approves.
HubSpot
As a HubSpot Solutions Partner at Platinum tier, ICX takes approved price rules, product catalogs and quote approvals into HubSpot, so sellers quote within the limits leadership defines and margin is visible in every deal.
Frequently Asked Questions About Revenue Growth Management
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What is revenue growth management?
Revenue growth management is a discipline that grows revenue and margin together by coordinating pricing, price pack architecture, promotions and trade spend, product and channel mix, and commercial terms with retailers and distributors. It is used mainly in consumer goods, manufacturing and distribution, and it works as a management system with data, rules and monthly review.
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What is the difference between revenue growth management and net revenue management?
The terms are often used as synonyms. Net revenue management usually refers to the revenue that remains after discounts, promotions and trade terms, with a strong focus on trade spend. Revenue growth management takes a wider view that also includes portfolio, pack, mix and channel strategy. ICX Consulting works on both under the same diagnostic.
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What is price pack architecture?
Price pack architecture is the design of pack sizes, formats and price points across a portfolio. A good architecture gives each shopper and channel a clear option, protects price per unit, avoids packs that cannibalize each other and leaves room for promotions. It is one of the revenue growth management levers that most affects margin.
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How does revenue growth management handle promotions and trade spend?
It evaluates each promotion and trade investment by its real return, comparing incremental volume and margin with the cost of the mechanic and the cost to serve the account. Promotions that only move volume forward are reduced, and the investment shifts to mechanics and customers that pay back, with conditions agreed in advance.
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How is pricing different from revenue management?
Pricing decides the price of each product for each customer and channel. Revenue management coordinates price with demand, capacity, mix and forecasting over time. Revenue growth management applies that broader view to consumer goods and channel businesses, adding packs, promotions and trade terms. All three depend on knowing the real cost to serve each customer.
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Which companies need revenue growth management consulting?
Companies that sell through channels and negotiate terms with them, such as consumer goods manufacturers selling to supermarkets and wholesalers, industrial manufacturers selling through distributors, and distributors with large portfolios. The clearest signal is trade spend that grows faster than sales while nobody can say the margin of each customer after rebates.
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How does ICX start a revenue growth management engagement?
It starts with an initial executive diagnostic session at no cost, of about 60 minutes, in which the practice reviews your pricing, promotions and channel terms. ICX then proposes the scope of the PCR diagnostic and positions the company on the Pricing and Revenue Management Maturity Model before recommending any design or software.
Find Out Which Growth Pays in Your Portfolio
Request an initial executive diagnostic session at no cost. In about 60 minutes our pricing team reviews your prices, promotions and channel terms. Contact ICX Consulting to schedule it.