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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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P

Pack size
The size in which a product is made, like 500ml and 750ml

PARP
Parity Price

Particpation
The number of points of sale that typically run promotion and apply regular prices as planned

PARTN
Numeric Participation

PARTW
Weighted Participation

Pay for performance
A mechanism A mechanism where customers are conditional based paid trade terms for providing a specific 'ask' e.g. maintaining a full product range on shelf, or maintaining specific displays for a specified period etc.. the amount sold, as opposed to predetermining the trade spend to be paid

PCE
Personal Consumption Expenditure

PFM
Petroleum food Markets - Channel description

PicOS
Picture of success. See "Look of success"

PINDN
Numeric Price Index

PINDW
Weighted Price Index

PIP
Price increase proximity

Planning horizon
The amount of future time periods used to perform an analysis with

PLIND
Price Ladder Index

POI
Point of interruption

Point of Purchase
See "Point of sale"

Point-of-sale
A mechanish available to a shopper to buy a product from, like an online store or a brick-and-mortar outlet

POOGI
Process of on-going improvement

POP
Point of Purchase

PORD
Perfect Order Fulfillment

POSC
Points-of-Sale Count

POSCL
Points-of-Sale Closing

POSN
Point of Sale Churn

POSO
Points-of-Sale Opening

POSS
Point-of-Sale Spend

Post-promotion base incremental gain
The gain in base due to new shoppers and incremental lift due to promotional activity

Post-promotion base loss
The lost base demand in periods after a promotion

PPA
Pack, Price Architecture

PPE
Promoted Price Elasticity

Premium price
Prices between the 80% and 90% mark on the indexed price ladder

Price
The amount of money asked for a product

Price decrease
A reduction in the regular price of a product

Price depth
The percentage drop in price while on promotion

Price elasticity
Price Elasticity expresses the percentage change in demand when reducing price by 1%

Price gap
The difference in price between two competing products

Price gap elasticity
The impact on demand of a product when the price gap to a competitor product change

Price increase
An increase in the regular price of a product

Price ladder
An ordered listing of competitor prices within a competitive set

Product
The goods shopper buy

PROJS
Project Spend

Promoted incremental gain
The difference in lift on promotion and post-promotion base loss

Promoted price elasticity
The impact on demand when increasing the price of a product by 1% when on promotion

Promotion frequency
The proportion of time in which a product was on promotion

Promotion slot
The window of time made available by customers to promote in

Promotion width
The amount of time on promotion

PROX
Proximity to Source of Supply

PSAL
Peak Sales

PVM
Price, Volume, Mix - refers to analysis exercise

PY
Prior year to last