VISTAS 2023 | Drive The Momentum

All sessions are subject to change

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Adapting to the Unpredictable: Embracing change in a world of continuous transformation.

It’s no longer about if, but rather when. The evolutionary cycle of technology is accelerating and the lull between the peaks is getting shorter. Are we in danger of managing change at the expense of managing our businesses? In his keynote, Amos Biegun, Vistex’s new CEO, will offer perspective on how Vistex can help you win this race. He'll also provide insight, tools and guidance for extracting value from your investments and maximizing benefits from your journey.

Amos Biegun
Vistex CEO

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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Medline and Their Customer Rebates and GPO Journey

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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Salov: Bringing The Trade Planning Process to Online

In this session, learn how Salov, a connected company and one of the biggest players in both the Italian food market (with the Sagra brand) and in international markets (with the Filippo Berio brand), has gained benefit from online planning targeting volumes, profitability and demand planning challenges. They will detail how they view this as a sustainable way to monitor trade spend and achieve trade investment efficiences.

Luca Greco
Group CIO

Chuck Handford
VP of Northeast Sales & Trade Marketing

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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Rights & Royalties Keynote

The media, music and entertainment industries are seeing a heavier reliance on AI, and data continues to form a larger part of everyday life and business decision-making. We’ll ask: How can you drive better decision-making in a competitive environment with a sea of information? And can we change the narrative from “What can I?” to “What should I?” with better tools?
At this year’s VISTAS conference, we’ll analyze industry trends, discuss new business models and present how Vistex can help you extract more value from your business in this changing business environment. Listen to our annual Rights & Royalties keynote where all of this will be discussed in detail.

Tom McDonough
Director of Media Client Service

Jon Robinson
Senior Manager Principal Architect

Dave Bagley
Senior Manager of Music

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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

A Rising Streak in Your Holistic Pricing Journey

Learn how to make it all add up for your pricing journey through an analogy and use cases. See how Vistex's data-driven system captures a holistic view of the pricing organization using factual and predictive analytics support at strategic points.

Rajagopal Govindarajulu
Director of Pricing Architecture

Allen Ipjian
Manager of Solution Engineering

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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Industry Panel Discussion: Life Sciences

Join Vistex and a panel of your peers to discuss key issues and the future of Life Sciences. Some of the topics we'll discuss include AI, blockchain, Machine Learning, value-based medicine, Gross-to-Net, compliance -- including the new move towards Medicare price negotiation and others. Come prepared to engage with the panel with questions, input and insights. We look forward to seeing you there for a lively discussion.

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11:00 PM - 12:00 PM

Grainger and Their Vizi Analytics Project

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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Rising Streak in Wholesale Distribution

Revenue Management in the Wholesale Distribution space is a constant challenge. Whether it's managing programs with your vendors or customers, see how Vistex makes it all add up to ensure that all the money you receive and spend on your programs is increasing revenue and profit and not just costing money. Learn about all the work Vistex does to help manage chargebacks with our new architecture in S/4, handle the complexity of rebates and incentives with our new flexible structures, evaluate the true gross-to-net calculations with planning, optimize costs and prices while managing the volumes with our data science and Price Staging Hub tools, and more.

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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

GE Healthcare’s Vistex Journey to Commercial Excellence

Join GE Healthcare, a leader in precision care, to explore how GE’s sales team worked with Vistex to close business faster with real-time, seamless integration between ERP pricing data and SalesForce. Also, get an inside look at their process improvement journey that yielded enhanced transparency into critical business programs for contract and price management.

Lucy Li
Global Digital Transformation Leader

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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Rising Streak in Media and Licensing

Discover how Vistex has furthered its capabilities for Media and IP licensing for Rights In and Rights Out. In this session, we’ll walk you through the new and improved features Vistex has developed for our Rights & Royalty solution. We’ll see how it drives your end-to-end processing for all things Rights & Royalty related, including the presentation of use cases and a discussion of upcoming roadmap items.

Tom McDonough
Director Media Client Service

Jon Robinson
Senior Manager Principal Architect

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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Rising Streak with Business AI

Artificial Intelligence and, more specifically, GenAI are all over the news. In this session, learn about how Vistex is leveraging this technology to improve business functions within our suites. Here about how we will provide insights into your business, improve productivity with our Vistex Assistant, and manage and improve your data with DataFlow. 

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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Rising with S/4HANA and Vistex

Are you considering a transition to SAP S/4HANA? In this session, we'll review the topics you must consider to prepare for a successful Vistex migration. We'll go over deployment options, architectural changes, tips and tricks and lessons learned.

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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

In Search of the Elusive: Measuring MDF ROI vs. Searching for Sasquatch

ROI measurement is always evolving. No one can claim to have it fully mastered, in part due to long sales cycles and multiple data sources. Today, we delve into the challenging terrain of measuring the return on investment for Market Development Funds (MDF), a task often as enigmatic as proving the existence of Bigfoot. Advancements in integrating data sources bring us nearer to accurately quantifying the ROI of MDF. Join F5, an American technology company specializing in application security, multi-cloud management, online fraud prevention, application delivery networking (ADN), application availability & performance, network security, and access & authorization, on a journey through the wilderness of marketing analytics to capture the elusive beast of ROI in the dense forest of market development.

Chloe Carreau
Global Channel Marketing Manager

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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Industry Panel Discussion: Consumer Products

Join our panelists as they discuss key influences affecting today's Consumer Products Retail and Foodservice industry and provide examples of how companies are rising to the Revenue Growth Management (RGM) challenges and getting ahead of the competition. These companies are creating cross-functional teams and investing in capabilities to capture areas that are hindering RGM and figuring out how to sustain such gains over time. In this discussion, we'll learn about actions taken by Vistex customers and the industry to hardwire revenue growth techniques into core business processes, implement incentives and build and maintain these capabilities at scale. Additionally, you'll learn how AI can be applied in the industry to enhance optimization planning to encompass other data points such as social media, web trends and web tracking, which can create a hyper-personalized shopper experience to drive profitable incremental volume.

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2:30 PM -3:30 PM

Foundation Building Materials and Their GTMS Rebates Journey

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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

What's New in SAP

Explore the features and functionality Vistex is continually adding to its Solutions for SAP Suite. In this session, you will learn about the latest and greatest features recently added to the products, including analytics, user experience, new features and industry solution enhancements. ECC and S/4HANA examples will be covered.

Cara DeGraff
Vice President of Product Management

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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Rising Streak in Consumer Products

If you experience increasing trade spend costs and decreased returns, it's time to evaluate how your business drives through trade programs for retailer claims, marketing claims, scanbacks and Co-op and MDF. Learn how to create a blueprint to achieve an unwavering digitalization journey with your programs by taking a new look at Vistex's trade management solution, from budgeting and planning to execution, while analyzing and evaluating throughout the whole process to course correct.

Joel Cartwright
Industry Principal of Consumer Goods

Raju Tangudu
Senior Director of Solution Architecture

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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Aaron Garcia Rodriguez
SAP Vistex Architect

Nancy Molinero Piña
Deputy Director of Process Migration

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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Industry Panel Discussion: Rights & Royalties

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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Panel Discussion: Pricing and Data Science

Join Vistex and industry experts as they discuss how AI and Data Science impact how companies manage pricing and optimize their margins and profits. They'll provide examples of how companies are rising to the challenges and getting ahead of the competition.

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

What's New in Music

This session is aimed at both music publishers and record labels in the Music industry. Vistex will present its GTMS solution for the Music industry, highlighting the unique capabilities this functionality moved into the cloud.

Dave Bagley
Senior Manager of Music

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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Rising Streak in Life Sciences

Revenue Management in the Life Sciences space is a constant challenge. See how Vistex is making it all add up to ensure all the money you spend on your programs increases revenue and profit. Learn about all the work being done to help manage chargebacks, rebates, pricing, managed care programs, government pricing and more.

Bob Steller
Industry Principal of Life Sciences

Rey Cruz
Product Manager of Life Sciences

Sarah Haley Fuentes
Manager of Solution Engineering

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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Scaling the Business Through Automation and Process Improvements

NVIDIA, an American multinational corporation and technology company, will discuss how they have achieved operational efficiencies through standardized workflows and Vistex solutions to manage high transaction volumes.

Maaza Essayas
Business Systems Analyst

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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Royal Mail Group and Their RevFlo, Pricing and Master Data Journey

Richard Barnes
Commercial Transformation Director

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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Rising with S/4HANA and Vistex

Are you considering a transition to SAP S/4HANA? In this session, we'll review the topics you must consider to prepare for a successful Vistex migration. We'll go over deployment options, architectural changes, tips and tricks and lessons learned.

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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

What's New and Next in GTMS

Explore the features and functionality Vistex continually adds to its cloud suite, GTMS. In this session, you'll learn about the latest and greatest features recently added to the products, plus what's coming up.

Cara DeGraff
Vice President of Product Management

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Panel Discussion: Vendor Programs

Join Vistex and industry experts as they discuss key influences affecting vendor program management today, highlighting the Wholesale Distribution and Retail industries. They'll provide examples of how companies are rising to the challenges and getting ahead of the competition. Learn how modern distributors are changing their practices by adopting new business capabilities to drive volume and establish customer stickiness.

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Creating A Limitless Culture

Ben Seidman is a hilarious master of deception. He utilizes pickpocketing, sleight of hand, and mentalism to create stunning and original magic experiences.
Seidman stars in the Vanity Fair VF Review on pickpocketing and sleight of hand. He guest starred on the Netflix Original Brainchild produced by Pharrell. Ben appeared twice on Penn & Teller: Fool Us on the CW network, Vanderpump Rules on Bravo, and starred in Magic Outlaws on Travel Channel. Ben was the highest rated headlining performer for Princess Cruises and won the title Entertainer of the Year. On September 19, he will amaze the VISTAS audience.

Ben Seidman

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Trade Planning Transformation at McCain

Join McCain Foods, the world's largest manufacturer of frozen potato products, as they share their journey to implement a Global Trade Planning solution for their Retail Business.

Jimmy Doherty
Product Owner – Trade Planning

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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Reaching New Peaks with Data Objects: How Data Objects is helping ScanSource reach new heights with agreement automation

In this session, ScanSource, a leading international distributor of specialty technology products, will discuss how Data Objects is automating their agreement creation, allowing their pricing team to focus on sales support, not data entry. You will hear firsthand how ScanSource took the steps needed to successfully implement this project.

Lisa Fuller
SAP Business Analyst III

Crystal Selfridge
SAP Business Analyst

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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

The Journey to GTMS Optimization (and Beyond)

Join Swank Motion Pictures, the world's largest non-theatrical distributor of motion pictures for public performance, as the team discusses how they unlocked game-changing efficiencies through thoughtful design, configuration (& re-configuration) and custom approaches to achieve an optimized state with GTMS. They will also explore their future needs for sustained excellence.

Trisha Berens
Business Systems Lead

Carrie Schafer
Chief Financial Officer

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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

What’s New in Life Science Regulatory Compliance

Join an interactive demo session to review some of Vistex's latest enhancements in regulatory compliance processes for Life Sciences. We'll explore master data, AMP and best price in GP. We'll also review agreement definition and management, and claim management for Medicaid and FSS compliance tracking. See what’s new in these areas and provide feedback directly to Vistex's Life Sciences team.

Bob Steller
Industry Principal of Life Sciences

Rey Cruz
Product Manager of Life Sciences

Sarah Haley-Fuentes
Solution Engineering Manager

Ashit Taneja
Senior Director of Solution Architecture

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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

What's New and Next in GTMS

Explore the features and functionality Vistex continually adds to its cloud suite, GTMS. In this session, you'll learn about the latest and greatest features recently added to the products, plus what's coming up.

Cara DeGraff
Vice President of Product Management

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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Rising Streak in Retail

Are you collecting everything you can from your suppliers and vendors? With the growth in trade spend, it's time to evaluate how your business drives revenue and decreases costs through cost and price optimization, trade programs for claims, marketing claims, scanbacks, supplier rebates and Co-op and MDF. Learn how to go on a rising streak with Vistex, from budgeting and planning to execution, while analyzing and evaluating throughout the whole process to course correct.

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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Composites One and Their S/4 Transformation Journey

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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Rising Streak for Partner Portals, RevFlo, and Other Cloud Extensions

As the world moves to the cloud, so is Vistex. Learn about Vistex's Cloud Extension architecture and how it can extend your Vistex implementations. Once such example is for partner portals. Casual users such as partners, sales reps and executives want an easy-to-use, intuitive user experience when interacting with their Revenue Management programs. Vistex has 2 solutions to expose information to non-administrative consumers: VIBES and RevFlo. In this session, you'll learn how sales representatives can efficiently run negotiation and contract cycles, leveraging AI-driven Price Guidance, margin validation and pricing insights. You'll see how partners can submit MDF projects and claims, view their rebate attainments, and submit ship-and-debit and promotional claims. You'll also explore how vendors can submit and consume program information and details. See how Vistex significantly simplifies and enhances the experience of manufacturers and distributors across all our suites. We'll also focus on additional available cloud applications, those in development, and those planned for the future.

Cara DeGraff
Vice President of Product Management

Rajesh Chaganti
Executive Director Solution Delivery

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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Medline and Their Distributor Rebates Journey

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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Rising Streak in Agribusiness

Today's mantra in the Agribusiness space is the connected farm and the need to keep costs in check while planning for the long term. Vistex enables the savvy farmer with tools to optimize these factors. Learn more during this introductory session on the Vistex Agribusiness Solution and see how we are growing in this space.

Dipen Shah
Executive Director of Solution Delivery

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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Have a Rising Streak with Advanced Analytics

Learn how to extend Vistex functionalities for your Go-to-Market programs with Vistex Advanced Analytics Platform! Gain insights into jumpstarting your analytics solution for rapid benefits while achieving precise control over pricing, rebate, and other revenue management strategies by effectively harnessing cutting-edge analytics and AI/ML technology.

Gaurav Aggarwal
Senior Director of Solution Delivery Analytics

Maarten Oosten
Executive Director of Solution Delivery, Data Science

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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Henry Schein and Their GTMS Chargebacks and Pricing Journey

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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Schneider Electric and Their Commissions, Pricing, and Rebates Journey

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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

What’s New in Life Science Commercial Operations

Join an interactive demo session to review some of Vistex's latest enhancements in commercial processes for Life Sciences. We'll explore bid management integration to Salesforce, Gross tenant, membership management, managed care and others. See what's new in these areas and provide feedback directly to Vistex's Life Sciences team.

Bob Steller
Industry Principal of Life Sciences

Rey Cruz
Product Manager of Life Sciences

Sarah Haley-Fuentes
Solution Engineering Manager

Ashit Taneja
Senior Director of Solution Architecture

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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Patterson and Their Pricing Journey

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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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8:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Hands On Training Workshop: Operational Reporting

This hands-on training course explains the configuration for Vistex ViZi Operational Reporting and Self-Service Reporting applications. Participants will understand the ViZi Building Blocks to create Operational Reports. Additionally, you'll learn how to use the new Self-Service Reporting tool to go back and create reports on your own. This class is for the SAP ECC or S/4HANA environments, but the basic concepts can also be applied to the GTMS cloud solution.

Lorenzo Catanag
Instructional Design Training Manager

Carolyne Hurlburt
GTMS Technical Trainer

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8:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Hands On Training Workshop: Fiori

This hands-on training course will show you how to revolutionize the user experience for Vistex transactions using Fiori apps. Dive into the world of Vistex Fiori objects, including Search Profiles, UI Profiles, Workspaces and Roles, and discover how to personalize and simplify UX like never before. Uncover the secrets of using Vistex Fiori objects for everyday tasks, such as managing Agreements and Claims, complete with dynamic charts and interactive dashboards. This course is designed for SAP S/4HANA and ECC environments.

Daina Pesiene
Training Manager, GTMS

Nancy Huff
Training Engagement Manager

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8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

Now It All Adds Up in Claims

Contract pricing and revenue and claim management provide major competitive advantages, positioning a company for higher performance, whether it's designed to boost revenue or increase/protect market share. Millions of dollars are lost annually in all areas of claims processing due to inaccurate pricing calculations, validations and inefficient and/or manual processes. This session will show manufacturers how to ensure the most streamlined, efficient and accurate approach to claims processing. ECC, S/4HANA, and GTMS examples will be covered.

Tennille Thompson
Trainer

Salvador Jimenez
GTMS Development & Delivery Trainer

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8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

Now It All Adds Up in Master Data

Good, clean master data is the key to a project's success. See how Vistex makes it all add up by managing the creation and maintenance of your products, partners, end customers and vendors, or just enhancing data to extend information needed for revenue management programs that may not already be in your ERP.

Amber Brunati
Senior Technical Trainer

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10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Now It All Adds Up in Chargebacks

Distributors and retailers operate in landscapes of increasing complexity, shrinking profit margins and scarcity of cash. To remain profitable, it’s essential to track and account for every penny vendors owe them. In this introductory overview session, we'll explore how to score with Vistex's ability to automate the process, allowing for quicker recovery of monies owed. The entire lifecycle of the chargeback process will be explained, from agreement creation and chargeback processing to accrual and settlement and reconciliation and reporting. ECC, S/4HANA, and GTMS examples will be covered.

Allison Hunter
Trainer

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10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Now It All Adds Up in Data Objects

The main purpose of Data Objects (DO) is to consume, cleanse and enrich unstructured data and make it available to various Vistex processes. In this course, participants will learn how to use a DO Data Model and link it to the Workspace for manual editing. While this class will not be hands-on, some technical knowledge is required. This class will be for the SAP ECC, S/4HANA, and GTMS environments.

Joe Arce
Training Manager, SAP Solutions

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11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Now It All Adds Up in Pricing

Has your pricing become so complex it’s creating processing nightmares? Are you spending too many hours on pricing updates when the time could be better used elsewhere? Are you unable to see the forest through the trees and ignore the pricing strategies needed to give your best customers the best prices? Let us show you what's next and relieve your pricing headaches by making the maintenance quicker and more efficient, accurate and strategic. This session will focus on the new core pricing functionality in the Price Review. ECC, S/4HANA and GTMS examples will be covered. While this class is not hands-on, some technical knowledge is required.

Kim Rivera-Reynolds
Trainer

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11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Now It All Adds Up in Rebates

How can I more efficiently manage my rebate programs? Am I incentivizing on the right outcome? Can I flexibly define the programs to match the business? This session will look at tools that help answer these questions. We'll examine how Vistex can help you manage customer and vendor rebate programs more effectively and help ensure you're getting the desired results. ECC, S/4HANA and GTMS examples will be covered.

Danielle Tranel
Trainer

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Vistex Sessions

A cornerstone of every VISTAS are the Vistex sessions that span all of the Vistex offerings. Throughout the conference you will be able to see the numbers with sessions on our latest features, see what works in each industry with sessions by our industry principals, and see what to do next with our analytics, data science and roadmap offerings.

Customer Sessions

Whether you’re interested in Rebate Management, Price Management, Channel Management, Claims Management, Rights and Royalties Management, or Trade Promotion Management, this is your chance to hear from an incredible cross section of Vistex customers as they tell the story of their Vistex journey and how they have partnered with Vistex to see the numbers, see what works and see what to do next.

Vistex Experts

Do you have a specific topic or area of Vistex functionality you need more information on? Could you use expert guidance on issues affecting your Vistex deployment? Would you like to see a demonstration of one of the many Vistex solutions? Vistex experts will be available during VISTAS on September 18th - 20th. These appointments will occur during conference breaks on site at the Swissotel in Chicago.

September 18-20, 2024

Swissotel Chicago