Pricing Audit – Transparency Instead of Gut Feeling
Many companies have a well‑defined pricing strategy.
What is often missing is transparency around how pricing is actually implemented in day‑to‑day operations.
Price deviations, historically grown discount structures, and only partially realized price increases often go unnoticed – with direct impact on margins and financial results.
A Pricing Audit creates clarity here.
When a Pricing Audit Makes Sense
A Pricing Audit is particularly useful when:
- Price increases have been decided, but the expected impact does not materialize
- Sales prices regularly deviate from target or list prices
- Discount structures have evolved over time and are no longer questioned
- Margin pressure exists despite stable revenues
- Transparency between Sales, Pricing, and Finance is lacking
- Additional complexity emerges (e.g., new products, markets, or partners)
In these situations, a Pricing Audit provides an objective, fact‑based assessment as a foundation for well‑informed management decisions.
What a pricing audit deliveres
The Pricing Audit analyzes the existing pricing system from both a commercial and operational perspective.
Key focus areas include:
- existing price logics and price lists
- actual transaction prices compared to target or list prices
- discounts and special conditions applied in daily operations
- implementation and realization of price increases
- margins by customer, product, or service
- pricing decision‑making and approval mechanisms
The goal is not to document every deviation in detail, but to identify the key patterns and levers that are economically relevant.
Pricing Audit Process
1. Kick-off & goal clarification
In a brief preliminary discussion, the objectives, questions and the scope of the analysis are agreed upon.
2. Analysis phase
Based on the provided data, a structured analysis of the price reality is carried out – focusing on deviations, discounts, margins and governance.
3. Compaction & Evaluation
The results are condensed and prioritized from a management perspective.
4. Results meeting
In a concluding discussion, the key findings are presented and concrete courses of action are discussed.
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Andreas Feuerbach, Vorstand und Gründer von Chironex Consulting
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