Zilliant Podcasts

on "Manufacturing"

Why Sanitary Products Providers are Ditching the Status Quo & Embracing Value-Based Pricing
Distribution | Manufacturing | eCommerce | Pricing

Why Sanitary Products Providers are Ditching the Status Quo & Embracing Value-Based Pricing

Dr. Rainer Schlamp, partner at EbelHofer Consultants, joins us to dissect an industry that often flies under the radar, but is essential to our everyday lives. The sanitary products industry is a complex and vibrant ecosystem weaving together producers, wholesalers, retail stores, contractors, and w...

Are You "Transforming" Your Business in Name Only?
Manufacturing | Pricing

Are You "Transforming" Your Business in Name Only?

“For me, the strange thing is companies are investing in transformation in all dimensions of their business, but barely in the one that has the biggest profit impact – pricing,” says Sebastian Wrobel, cofounder and managing director of PricingWorks on today’s episode.Sebastian and host Barrett Thomp...

CEO Summit: The Vision and Value Behind Digital Sales Transformation
Manufacturing | eCommerce | Pricing

CEO Summit: The Vision and Value Behind Digital Sales Transformation

Logik.io CEO Chris Shutts returns to the show, this time to connect with Pascal Yammine, chief executive officer of Zilliant. They discuss the transformational digital shift occurring in industries like traditional manufacturing, high-tech, software, and business services, driven by customer demand...

The Channel: Always Changing, Always Vital
Distribution | Economic Trends | Manufacturing | Services | Sales | Pricing

The Channel: Always Changing, Always Vital

“When people talk about the death of the channel, the death of distribution, I just sit back and go, ‘Hold my beer – give me a whiteboard and I will explain to you how wrong you are.’”Channelnomics CEO Larry Walsh is our guest today for a wide-ranging discussion on what the channel is and why it mat...

Building Your Best Digital Future w/ Argano
Manufacturing | eCommerce | Pricing

Building Your Best Digital Future w/ Argano

“The world is not constant and stable. So why should your pricing strategy be? You have to mimic the working world that you live in,” said Argano Chief Strategy Officer Tim Harris on today’s episode. Harris joined Barrett Thompson to continue the show’s ongoing examination on how manufacturers are d...

Manufacturers Must Get Nimbler – But How?
Economic Trends | Manufacturing | Pricing

Manufacturers Must Get Nimbler – But How?

Slalom is a global consulting firm and one of the top Salesforce manufacturing partners in the world. Matt Baker and Calvin Chow from Slalom joined the show to help us continue our exploration of current manufacturing trends and commercial solutions. Learn why a major theme for 2023 is the concept o...

Addressing Margin Erosion and More Manufacturing Trends w/ Salesforce
Economic Trends | Manufacturing | Pricing

Addressing Margin Erosion and More Manufacturing Trends w/ Salesforce

“It used to be that pricing was the most dangerous thing to change, and that if it were done wrong, customers would head out the door and never come back. As a result of the pandemic and the barrage of supply chain woes, material availability, order management, S&OP and demand planning, all that...

Building Materials and Construction: Perspective and 2023 Forecast
Distribution | Economic Trends | Manufacturing | Pricing

Building Materials and Construction: Perspective and 2023 Forecast

Those working in and observing the building materials and construction industry have been through a rollercoaster ride. In 2020, plants and job sites shut down completely. Then, upon reopening, a surge in demand for new builds and remodels collided with shortages in many of the products necessary to...

Inflation, Value-Based Pricing and Trucking
Economic Trends | Manufacturing | Pricing

Inflation, Value-Based Pricing and Trucking

Gene Metheny, partner at Carlisle and Company, stops by the show to talk about the myriad macroeconomic problems facing B2B companies and what must be done to get ready for the next shift in supply and demand. He and Barrett Thompson then drill into some examples of how pricing data and analytical m...

How to “Consumerize” B2B Manufacturing
Manufacturing | Pricing

How to “Consumerize” B2B Manufacturing

Chris Shutts has spent the 21st century at the forefront of the evolution of sales in the manufacturing space. He co-founded Big Machines in 2000 and sold the business to Oracle in 2013. Now he leads Logik.io, a strategic Zilliant partner that delivers next-generation technology to manufacturers of...

A Perfect Match: CPQ + Price Optimization for Manufacturers
Manufacturing | Partner | Pricing

A Perfect Match: CPQ + Price Optimization for Manufacturers

Today we welcome on Mike Bramble,managing consultant for commercial performance applications at Enigen. Mike introduced himself to our host Lindsay Duran by proclaiming, “CPQ is very much in my blood.”Which made him the perfect guest for this episode’s topics, namely customer and sales rep self-serv...

B2B Reimagined: Ep 29 | Exceptional CX with Accelalpha’s Devang Bhavsar
Manufacturing | eCommerce | Partner | Pricing

B2B Reimagined: Ep 29 | Exceptional CX with Accelalpha’s Devang Bhavsar

Today we are joined by Accelalpha’s Devang Bhavsar. In his role as Partner, CX & ERP Practice, Devang is focused on helping companies make it easy for their customers to do business with them. As digital commerce becomes dominant, “customer experience will overtake price and product as the key b...

B2B Reimagined: Ep 26 | A Manufacturing Industry Snapshot with Acumen Solutions
Manufacturing | Partner

B2B Reimagined: Ep 26 | A Manufacturing Industry Snapshot with Acumen Solutions

We welcome two guests from our strategic partner Acumen Solutions, Manufacturing Industry SME Gary Brown and Engagement Director Kyle Dreyer, to take the pulse of the modern manufacturer during a time of intensifying change. Host Lindsay Duran leads the conversation, which covers the need for custo...

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