Co-Optimum
Marketing Support Services’ core capabilities reside in the
administration and management of a wide variety of trade allowance program. As a custom
software development company solidly based in the co-op industry,
Co-Optimum is uniquely
qualified to provide clients with customized services and technologies,
each designed to improve management control, sales flexibility, knowledge and
effectiveness of trade allowance programs.
Trade
Program Administration, Management and Marketing Services
Services
include: Co-op Help-line Customer Service, Prior-Approval processing,
Claim Audit, Credit Prep and/or Issuance, Deduction Management, and Program
Evaluation/Consultation. Clients receive privately branded websites
with a download asset library,
and the option to add additional marketing features like online ad
building, direct mail creation & list purchase, and seamless interface with other vendors such as
yellow pages, fixturing, merchandise, fulfillment, online marketing,
etc.
Compliance
with Sarbanes-Oxley, Robinson-Patman, and Financial Accounting Board
rulings
Compliance
verification is provided through visibility to claim audit processes
and results, document storage and scanning, reporting, and planning & control systems.
Interactive,
Online Trade Program Planning Systems
Co-Optimum
develops custom systems for online Budgeting, Planning, Tracking,
Evaluating, and Reporting of
activity for virtually any type
of trade allowance programs, with the ability to Plan and Negotiate
customer-level marketing plans
with Objectives, Strategies, Tactics assigned.
Business
Intelligence Systems
Co-Optimum
builds powerful, enterprise-class
Business Intelligence applications for business analysis.
Who
Can Benefit?
Any
company offering cooperative trade allowance dollars to channel members
that wants to efficiently manage those dollars with financial control and flexibility using
affordable and powerful technologies, and that demands outstanding
customer service.