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How A Global Beauty Brand Optimized Their Portfolio And Avoided Cannibalization

2%

Potential revenue uplift across the entire portfolio

Future-proofing RGM with AI

Background

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This global beauty and personal care manufacturer has established itself as a leader in the industry, renowned for its commitment to sustainability, ethical sourcing, and innovation.

With a diverse portfolio of skincare, haircare, fragrance, and cosmetic products, the company has built a strong presence across multiple international markets.

Its focus on using natural ingredients and eco-conscious formulations has resonated with consumers, driving impressive financial performance with revenues exceeding billions annually.

The manufacturer sought to optimize their portfolio beyond traditional pricing methods, which were resulting in missed revenue opportunities by failing to account for cannibalization and other market interactions.

Challenges

Before adopting Buynomics, the manufacturer lacked a reliable method to analyze product interactions across its portfolio. As a result, it applied a uniform 5% price increase across its entire portfolio on the e-commerce channel.

However, because consumers react differently to price changes across products, this approach partly resulted in portfolio cannibalization and shoppers leaving the manufacturer's e-commerce website for other sales channels or competitor products.

By adopting the Buynomics platform, the manufacturer aimed to differentiate & optimize the portfolio pricing while simultaneously avoiding cannibalization to reach revenue and unit sale targets on their e-commerce channel.


Price optimization across portfolio

The manufacturer aimed to identify the optimal price increase for each brand in its portfolio and assess the resulting impact on revenue and unit sales while considering cross effects.

 


Avoiding cannibalization on e-commerce

The manufacturer aimed to optimize its portfolio on their e- commerce channel dedicated exclusively to its own brands, making it critical to prevent portfolio cannibalization.

 

Tested Strategies

Leveraging Buynomics' Decision Guide tool, the Revenue Growth Management (RGM) set the following requirements to optimize the relevant key performance indicators.

 

Relevant KPIs

  • Scope: E-commerce, entire portfolio
  • KPIs to optimize: Revenue & Units
  • Allowed Price Changes: From 0% up to 10%

 

The Decision Guide took forty-five minutes to come back with a differentiated price increase strategy across all brands within their portfolio, ensuring the brands will not cannibalize each other and the manufacturer will be able to reach expected revenue and unit sales.

 

Results

Below is the breakdown of price increases across the portfolio:

  • 0% (2 brands) 
  • 1% (2 brands)
  • 4% (2 brands)
  • 6% (1 brand)
  • 7% (2 brands)
  • 8% (2 brands)
  • 9% (2 brands)

Impact

Using the Buynomics software, the team was able to set KPIs and receive optimal recommendations to reach it.

2% Revenue Uplift

The strategy provided by Buynomics’ Decision Guide allowed the manufacturer to identify the total revenue increase potential of 2% across the entire portfolio.

 

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2-4%

Profit impact*

95%

Predictive Accuracy*

80%

Faster Decision-making

*Depending on data quality and completeness