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Equipping automotive and aftermarket pricing teams to price every part with precision

 

Learn how better pricing helps automotive and aftermarket parts companies protect margins, respond faster to market shifts, and improve pricing execution.

 

By Dr. Jan Wieneke

Bosch
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How Bosch cut quote cycle time by 70%

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Pricing has a direct effect on profitability and competitiveness in automotive and aftermarket parts. This research report shows how teams can respond to volatile costs, channel complexity, and pricing pressure with better execution and faster decisions.

In this research report on automotive and aftermarket parts, we discuss:

  • the impact of pricing challenges such as:
    • volatile input costs across metals, plastics, and energy
    • rising competition and pricing pressure
    • multi-channel sales complexity
    • unpredictable supply chain and demand shifts
    • misalignment across pricing, sales, and finance
    • manual processes, frequent updates, and siloed data
    • ineffective rebates, incentives, and discounting
    • limited insight for strategic decisions
  • the real benefits to pricing, sales, and finance teams in automotive, parts, aftermarket manufacturing, and services.
The outcomes
As you'll learn, pricing in automotive and aftermarket parts can help you automate price adjustments to stay competitive and protect margins, accelerate complex product quoting, and use AI to improve margin capture, and much more.

The story

“Bosch's pricing team was managing thousands ofSKUsacross regions in disconnected spreadsheets, withquoteturnaround taking days.”​

“The sales team was losing deals to faster competitors,evenwhen Bosch's pricing was more accurate.”​

“With Pricefx, Bosch centralised pricing logicandautomated approval workflows, replacing thespreadsheet-and-overrides cycle.”​

“Quote cycle time dropped 70%, from days to hours,withfull margin visibility for finance.”​

The story

“Bosch's pricing team was managing thousands ofSKUsacross regions in disconnected spreadsheets, withquoteturnaround taking days.”​

“The sales team was losing deals to faster competitors,evenwhen Bosch's pricing was more accurate.”​

“With Pricefx, Bosch centralised pricing logicandautomated approval workflows, replacing thespreadsheet-and-overrides cycle.”​

“Quote cycle time dropped 70%, from days to hours,withfull margin visibility for finance.”​

The story

“Bosch's pricing team was managing thousands ofSKUsacross regions in disconnected spreadsheets, withquoteturnaround taking days.”​
“The sales team was losing deals to faster competitors,evenwhen Bosch's pricing was more accurate.”​
“With Pricefx, Bosch centralised pricing logicandautomated approval workflows, replacing thespreadsheet-and-overrides cycle.”
“With Pricefx, Bosch centralised pricing logicandautomated approval workflows, replacing thespreadsheet-and-overrides cycle.”

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Dr Jan Wieneke Industry Advisor Pricefx
Dr. Jan Wieneke

Industry Advisor, Pricefx

Dr. Jan Wieneke is an Industry Advisor at Pricefx, focused on the manufacturing sector. He brings a rare mix of academic depth and hands-on pricing leadership, having held senior global pricing roles at Envalior and LANXESS and worked as a strategic pricing consultant across B2B, B2C, and consulting. He holds a doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) in experimental economics from Bielefeld University, where his research explored decision-making and behavioral strategy. Based near Düsseldorf, Germany, he writes on pricing in manufacturing and the practical side of pricing strategy.