{"id":3477,"date":"2018-06-13T08:39:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T08:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.price2spy.com\/blog\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2019-01-25T15:21:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T15:21:08","slug":"solutions-for-manufacturers-how-to-handle-violations-of-the-agreed-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.price2spy.com\/blog\/solutions-for-manufacturers-how-to-handle-violations-of-the-agreed-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Solutions for manufacturers: how to handle violations of the agreed price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.price2spy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/piano_manufact.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3940\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3940\" src=\"https:\/\/www.price2spy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/piano_manufact.jpg\" alt=\"piano_manufact\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.price2spy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/piano_manufact.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.price2spy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/piano_manufact-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Minimum Advertised Price &#8211; MAP (or Targeted price, RRP, MSRP etc.) is an agreement between suppliers and retailers that qualifies the lowest price\u00a0at\u00a0which\u00a0each product\u00a0can\u00a0be advertised. This means that retailers\u00a0can go above the specified price but not below it.<\/p>\n<p>Map policy can either be a policy imposed by the manufacturer\/supplier or an agreement between a manufacturer, supplier and its retailers.<\/p>\n<p>Briefly, the main purposes of the policy are to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Promote fair pricing and competition among different brands<\/li>\n<li>Protect small retailers in order to compete with big ones<\/li>\n<li>Maintain brand awareness and value<\/li>\n<li>Protect seller margins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, it does not mean that the advertised price must be the retail\u00a0price for the product. Actually, retailers are free to sell the products at any price\u00a0they want above MAP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solutions for Manufacturers\/Brands to be able to fight MAP Violations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apart from huge democratization of the market, eCommerce has brought another problem: ever-emerging players on the market with very little expertise to offer can fight using only one weapon: low profit margin. These new\u00a0players can hugely undermine the brand value and market position that has been carefully built in the past years\/decades.<\/p>\n<p>At\u00a0this point, huge responsibility arises for the manufacturers. Prevention of this situation requires huge\u00a0efforts. Manufacturers should keep an eye on MAP pricing in order to spot and document a MAP violation.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the some suggestions to help you minimize this problem:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spot\u00a0and document violation cases<\/li>\n<li>Make sure your retailers know that you have a reliable way of monitoring their pricing policies<\/li>\n<li>Identify which retailer has fired the first bullet in the pricing war<\/li>\n<li>Automatically get informed in the case of MAP policy violations<\/li>\n<li>Make\u00a0sure that you have technical equipment to avoid bans\/blocks to obtain healthy price monitoring results<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Our price monitoring tool Price2Spy can help you apply these suggestions. To find out more\u00a0please click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.price2spy.com\/en\/solutions\/brands-manufacturers.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>So, to sum up, we can help you in preserving your brand&#8217;s value and monitoring whether your retailers respect the agreement on prices that you have. However,\u00a0the best way for manufacturers and the retailers to work is to communicate openly about the conditions. They need to work on policy terms without breaking rules they and\u00a0to find the considerable way to sell their products without making problems to each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minimum Advertised Price &#8211; MAP (or Targeted price, RRP, MSRP etc.) is an agreement between suppliers and retailers that qualifies the lowest price\u00a0at\u00a0which\u00a0each product\u00a0can\u00a0be advertised. This means that retailers\u00a0can go above the specified price but not below it. 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