Purchasers and buying groups
Rebate software for purchasers, buying groups and distributors
Run every supplier’s year-end rebate from one tool: turnover collection, validation, calculation, negotiation of rates and scales, with the full history of each relationship.
What changes
Less consolidation, more negotiation
No more files to consolidate
Suppliers declare directly in Palier; the account grid is always up to date, supplier by supplier, period by period.
Figures checked before validation
Cumulative decrease, magnitude error, gap to last year or to the landing: anomalies are flagged before you validate.
Rates negotiated with facts
Distance to the next tier, growth, negotiation history: you come to the discussion with the right arguments.
A memory of every supplier
Agreements, declarations, proposals, counters and decisions stay available, year after year.
Validation
Validate a whole period in minutes
The validation queue shows each declaration with its variances and checks. Clean declarations are validated in bulk; the others get a question or a reasoned refusal, and the supplier is notified by email.
- Variance with the previous period and with last year
- All-or-nothing bulk validation
- The assistant’s recommendation under each row
Results
Propose rates to every ready supplier at once
As soon as the last period is validated, each supplier’s result is computed: tier reached, computed rate, amount per scale. Propose the computed rates to every ready supplier, or a different retained rate, with a message.
- Computed and retained rates side by side, with their difference
- One negotiation thread per scale
- Finalisation with a PDF recap for both parties
Next year’s scale
Prepare next year’s agreements on real figures
The simulator replays the year with an edited scale: you see at once what each tier would have paid. Propose the new scale to the supplier, who accepts or counters online.
- Old and new scales side by side, changed tiers highlighted
- Simulation on the year’s validated turnover
- Next year’s agreement created on acceptance
Getting started
Your first rebate cycle in Palier
- 1
Set your periods
1 to 12 periods per year, each with its entry and validation windows.
- 2
Create suppliers and their agreements
Enter the scales tier by tier or import them from Excel.
- 3
Invite supplier contacts
Each contact receives an invitation and sees only its own company’s data.
- 4
Validate period by period
Declarations arrive in your queue, checked and commented.
- 5
Negotiate, finalise, repeat
Retained rates, PDF recaps, then next year’s scales proposed from the analysis.
Questions from purchasers
How many suppliers can Palier handle?
Palier is designed and tested for portfolios of several hundred suppliers per account, with up to 12 periods per year and product family scales.
Can we load our existing scales?
Yes. Each agreement’s scales import from an Excel workbook, with the same checks as manual entry: contiguous tiers, an unbounded last tier, rates with at most four decimals.
Can several purchasers work on the same account?
Yes. The account owner invites as many members as needed, as purchasers or viewers. Every action is attributed to its author in the audit log.
What if a result needs correcting after finalisation?
The account owner can reopen a finalised result with a reason. Reopening creates a numbered revision; the previous amount stays visible until the result is finalised again.
See Palier on your own tier scales
30 minutes through declarations, validation, calculation and negotiation of your rebates. Send us a scale and we will set it up for the demo.
- Demo on your sample data
- In English or French
- No commitment