Specialized Foodservice Features
Find out how our TPM solution simplifies everything – from contract entry to reporting and analytics.
- Contract Entry
- Contract Approval
- Claim Resolution
- Deduction Matching
- Analytics
Reinvent your approach, simply by choosing the right partner.
Our expertise in the CPG foodservice and retail industries means we understand the unique challenges you face. Our trade management and optimization solutions are customized to your specific needs. Support a single segment or your entire business from one trade system:
Find out how our TPM solution simplifies everything – from contract entry to reporting and analytics.
Discover how to use TPM and TPO to manage the weekly flow of retail and optimize ROI.
Back in 2000, we started with one goal: find a better way to manage and analyze promotions. Since then, we’ve built a comprehensive trade promotion software and services solution that includes trade promotion management (TPM), trade promotion optimization (TPO), and trade promotion services.
Our platform organizes your data, so you can improve trade spend management.
Our TPM platform handles your trade programs, brokerage commissions, budgeting, planning, settlements engine, deductions management, accruals, reporting and analytics, redistribution volume management, and marketing expenses.
Our TPO platform guides your optimization, baselines, promotional event analysis, planning and reporting management, trade programs, reporting and analytics, budgeting, and planning.
We offer a consultative approach to each client that focuses on foundational functions of trade promotions, such as implementation, system support, claims processing, analysis, and insight mining.
“We have been using Blacksmith for several of our divisions for more than 10 years. We wanted an expert that could lead us to the right decisions and the right ways of doing business. Blacksmith took us to that level.”
With thousands of variables and spreadsheets full of data, complexity is a staple of trade spend management. We’re here to change that. You have straightforward goals and your trade promotion management solution needs to help you meet them.
With our scalable TPM and TPO solutions, you get:
Simplified UX reduces the number of clicks and steps users must take to get results. Manage contracts, validate claims and deductions, and integrate seamlessly with current systems.
Access quantifiable real-time analytics that tell you which promotions work and which don’t. Save time, money, and resources while increasing overall efficiency and ROI.
Integrate historical data, gain visibility into current promotions, and gather actionable intelligence to perform post-event analysis and inform future decisions.
Our best-in-class trade promotion management (TPM) solution integrates seamlessly with other systems and helps you simplify trade promotion management.
Compile and organize every product, customer, and promotion into a single accessible interface that improves workflows and reduces complexity.
Easily validate claims and deductions. Build a system of trust between you and your customers. Track budgets and monitor processes to accelerate approvals.
Access real-time reports to identify which deals are working. Use your dashboard to establish baselines and gather actionable intelligence.
Every decision has a measurable impact. Build an end-to-end solution by coupling capabilities. Trade promotion optimization (TPO), a tool built to determine the most profitable retail and grocery promotions based on historical and aggregate data, delivers:
Our customer success team is comprised of CPG foodservice and retail industry veterans. We speak your language, understand your challenges, and provide responsive, relevant support during implementation and beyond.
Work with a partner that knows your business.
Businesses of every size partner with us. CPG manufacturers trust Blacksmith to deliver a return on their investment.
Tyson Foods, a multinational brand with over $42 billion in annual sales, uses Blacksmith TPM to improve efficiency and invest in strategic trade planning.
Consumer favorite superfood-filled organic brand Purely Elizabeth implemented Blacksmith TPM and TPO to support their investments in trade.
Farmer-owned and well-known juice and jelly producer Welch’s uses Blacksmith TPO to manage and optimize trade promotions.
We hear from customers that our expertise in the CPG industry sets us apart. Blacksmith SaaS solutions are founded on well over 100 years of combined experience at companies like KraftHeinz, McCain, Pactiv, Conagra, and many, many more.
You deserve a trade spend solutions partner that:
Part of what makes our trade promotion solutions best-in-class is our deep commitment to trade best practices and technology innovation.
Our annual Smoke Jumpers conference will take place online April 13 – 15, 2021. Join us to connect with the best and brightest from the industry.
Find out more about Smoke Jumpers 2021, the community, and our flagship trade trends magazine by the same name.
Building connections and strengthening the industry is part of our mission. Check out our industry analyses, news, and resources for trade spend management professionals. View All Resources
Read up on the latest CPG industry trade strategies and sales planning best practices. Share in a community of learning by exploring the latest trends.
Make the most of your product research experience and learn about our applications in just a few minutes with web demo videos.
From glossaries to guidebooks, our resource library provides a wealth of resources for both CPG industry veterans and newcomers.
Building connections and strengthening the industry is part of our mission. Check out our industry analyses, news, and resources for trade spend management professionals. View All Resources
Read up on the latest CPG industry trade strategies and sales planning best practices. Share in a community of learning by exploring the latest trends.
See how: Russ Koshiol, Trade Business Solutions Specialist at General Mills, shares the company’s best in class tips for budgeting in a trade promotion management (TPM) application.
From glossaries to guidebooks, our resource library provides a wealth of resources for both CPG industry veterans and newcomers.
