Blacksmith TPO

RATING:

4.5

(10)
Overview

About Blacksmith TPO

T-Pro Optimum is a pricing optimization solution that helps CPG manufacturers manage, analyze, and optimize trade promotions. It provides data harmonization tools, which combine data from multiple sources to analyze return-on-investment (ROI) across promotions. T-Pro Optimum comes with a predictive planning module, which uses AI tools to develop plans and predict events based on what-if scenarios. Businesses can utilize an AI-driven opportunity finder to build budget-centric plans, improving the allocation of incremental funding across products. It lets users gain visibility into scheduled events based on customer, category or product and review predicted performance KPIs on the trade calendar. Additionally, the master calendar allows users to examine volume and pr...
Centralize POS consumption, shipment, spending, pricing & other critical data.

Blacksmith TPO Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4

Functionality

4

Most Helpful Reviews for Blacksmith TPO

10 Reviews

Emily

Consumer Goods, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed April 2020

TPRO Admin

Our planning and performance review efficiencies have improved every year thanks to TPRO!

PROS

My favorite TPRO Feature is the Master Calendar. User Friendly, Presentation Ready, and provides all important information for an account/product in one place.

CONS

I think there is still room for TPRO to optimize in reporting function. Right now the data is all there and easy to pull into Excel - it would be a nice add on to have pre built reports that aggregate data and compare versus prior year.

Laurie

Consumer Goods, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed April 2019

An all-inclusive solution

Phenomenal. Often times, you sign up for a software program and find the sales team disappears once execution begins. Not the case with TPRO. The people we dealt with at the beginning are still regularly involved in our system. They are willing to listen to our ideas and have implemented many of our suggestions. We have a proven, positive ROI since implementing TPRO!

PROS

Allows us to plan our total business, regardless of channel. When reviewing options before signing with TPRO, many big-name syndicated data suppliers were unable to help with alternative channels. TPRO can handle it all.

CONS

No "rollup" functionality has been built in. Requires us to export and do our own rollup in Excel.

Tim

Consumer Goods, 201-500 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

2

VALUE FOR MONEY

2

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed April 2020

T-Pro Optimum

The team that manages the program are great, they will help you along the way in any way you need, but you need to have the resources to get the full value of the system. If you do not, it will be an expensive bump chart that you could easily create in Excel with your own POS data.

PROS

The tool as designed is quite impressive. The capability to analyze your promotions and perform What If scenarios and load a full promotional calendar is great.

CONS

My biggest challenge with using this tool was the resources needed to load the POS data on a monthly basis and align the promotions to what was fed into T-PRO from your TPM system. The maintenance of new items and geography changes can be challenging too. If you have the time and resources to put against the program, it is strong, if you do not, it will not be full utilized.

Reason for choosing Blacksmith TPO

No other programs considered for post promo analysis

Thomas

Consumer Goods, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2020

TPro Easy Usage of System

Solid product w/useful outputs that drive profitable sales

PROS

Volume and spend functions are easy to pull and understand/modify as needed to attain profitable programs

CONS

Nothing, was an easy to use system that satisfied all my sales needs

david

Food Production, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed April 2020

Novice User Feedback

I like the potential. The challenge is becoming a power user when not using that often.

PROS

Once you get the hang of it (use it more frequently), it becomes more and more user friendly. (Not where I want to be but should be there with more practice. There is an enormous amount of data that can be used and parsed for analysis. I like the folder approach to guide you through all this data. The Sales and Volume Planning reports have been useful thus far. Mostly (In what I have used the software for), it does not take a long time to pull every query (except for the accrual folder; it spins for a while).

CONS

I would like to be able to download data/reports to excel (maybe there is a way, but I have not figured it out). The first few times you use, it can be pretty intimidating. It takes time to get the hang of it, but the more you use the easier it becomes. More use coupled with more training at different proficiency levels could accelerate user productivity. I have had "long spins" when I go into the accrual folder. When I launch, and every time I enter a new parameter (my name, Customer, etc.)

Nia

Consumer Goods, 10,000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2020

Very intuitive and insightful

PROS

The ability to layer over consumption with shipments and pull reports. A lot of systems are data entry and unable to pull reports afterwards

CONS

N/A - not used it enough yet. Does seem like a multitude of pieces to enter so potentially easy to make an error or oversee something

scott

Food & Beverages, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed September 2019

T-Pro

PROS

Ease of the system and the trainers who presented the system.

CONS

Need more training that the half day we were provided.

Maria

Consumer Goods, 10,000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed April 2020

T Pro Review

Overall its been a positive experience with good pdf training documents to help with questions.

PROS

The ease of creating a promotion with the drop downs for performance, volume broken down by items and by weeks.

CONS

I haven't used it long enough to have any serious cons.

Mike

Consumer Goods, 501-1,000 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2020

TPRO Review

Forecasting consumption while evaluating Profit and Loss per scenario.

PROS

After being explained how to use it, it provides a significant amount of Data and Analytics for the user.

CONS

Unless you take the training, it might be difficult to use based off the amount of options the software has.

Ryan

Wine and Spirits, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed September 2021

9.27.21 Review

I mainly used it to help the team with correcting the price promotions by chain. It was helpful once the promotions by brand and by chain were corrected.

PROS

Being able to put in price case scenarios.

CONS

A little more manual than expected by having to update each brand by size.

10 Reviews