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Glossary

The Glossary below provides clear definitions of key terms used in Revenue Growth Management (RGM), helping you better understand essential concepts, strategies, and metrics that drive top-line growth and optimize profitability. This resource is designed to simplify complex RGM terminology, empowering businesses to make informed decisions on pricing, promotions, and product assortments.

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CAGR
Compound Annual Growth Rate

CANG
Cannibalized Sales Gain

CANL
Cannibalized Lost Sales

Catchment area (customer focus)
The geography served by a point of sale

Catchment area (product focus)
The points-of-sale used to bring a product to market

CCPM
Theory of Constraints Critical Chain Project Management

CFS
Cash Flow Statement

Challenger competitor
Challengers provide competitive pricing and unique features to the market in the hope to become a mainstream competitor

Channel
A collection of simlarly operating customers to serve a particular kind of shopper

Channel conflict
The cannibalization that occurs between customers when a particular customer promotes a product

Clashing
Clashing occurs when two competing products are on promotion at the same time in the same customer node

CMP
Customer Margin Protection

COGS
Cost of Goods Sold

COMPB
Degree of brand competition

COMPC
Competitor Count

COMPCC
Degree of channel competition

Competition
The degree to a shopper has multiple points-of-sale for the same product

Competitive Set
The collection of competing products

Competitor
An alternative and similar product of a different brand available to the same shopper

Compliance
The degree to which, and number of, points of sale that runs promotions as planned and apply regular prices as planned.

COMPLN
Numeric Compliance

COMPLW
Weighted Compliance

COMPN
Number of new entrants

COMPR
Number of exiting entrants

Consumer
The ultimate person using a product

Consumer Packaged Goods
Typically non-durable goods shoppers buy for immediate or near-term consumption or use, like food

Consumption occasion
Refers to why the product or service is bought and when it is to be used or consumed

Contribution Class
A metric used to define a market segment by price and revenue and/or volume share

CORL
Lower Price Corridor

CORU
Upper Price Corridor

Cover
See "Days cover"

CP
Capacity Planning

CPG
Consumer Packaged Goods Industry. Typically non-durable goods shoppers buy for immediate or near-term consumption or use, like food

CPI
Consumer Price Inflation

Cross elasticity
The impact on the deamnd of a product when a competitive product change price

CRP
Capacity Requirement Planning

CTC
Cash-to-cash Cycle Time

CTS
Cost To Serve

Customer
The key entity in the route to market to make products available for sale to shoppers, like retailers

CY
Current Year

Cycle deal
A promotion of which the price is the typical reduced price as per the price mandate