Case Study · Mechanical & plant engineering

40,000 spare parts.One small team.A major impact.

A mid-sized plant manufacturer transformed its spare parts pricing with nueprice. Weeks of manual price maintenance became pricing rounds completed in hours. The result: €1.3M in additional annual margin.

A real customer project. Anonymized to protect sensitive pricing information.

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We needed a scalable pricing system for over 40,000 spare parts that automates our pricing decisions.

Head of After Sales

at the featured plant manufacturer

Mid-sized plant manufacturer

Company revenue
~€300M
Active spare parts
40,000
+ over 1M long-tail items
Pricing resources
1.2 FTE
Full-time equivalents

The portfolio grew. Time for better pricing was scarce.

Over 40,000 active spare parts, plus more than a million long-tail items: this plant manufacturer had a complex portfolio and a pricing team of just 1.2 full-time equivalents.

Prices were maintained manually. Each pricing round kept the team busy for weeks. Capacity and a data-driven basis for systematic price differentiation were missing.

The task: build a pricing logic that could be applied across the entire portfolio.

What changed in day-to-day work
Area Before With nueprice
Price maintenance Managed manually Automated through rules
Pricing rounds Several weeks A few hours
Pricing strategy Little scope for differentiation Suitable methods for each price family

From individual prices to a system that scales.

The manufacturer combined several pricing methods with nueprice. This created a structure that accounts for different spare parts and automates price setting.

  1. Understand the starting point

    First, existing price structures and competitive positioning were analyzed. This created the basis for targeted price differentiation.

  2. Structure the portfolio

    Spare parts were grouped into price families and assigned suitable methods. Customer value, competition and costs each played a role in the pricing logic.

  3. Automate price setting

    Rules made pricing applicable across the entire portfolio. The team could now complete pricing rounds in hours instead of weeks.

1 Competition-Based Pricing Focus on market-oriented positioning 2 Value-based Family Pricing Structure price families by customer value 3 Automated Mark-up Pricing Cover spare parts with rule-based pricing

The result: more margin, less effort.

After go-live, the impact became visible in prices, margin and the time needed for pricing rounds.

additional annual margin
+€1.3M
average price effect
+3.7%
estimated time saved per pricing round
approx. 90%
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Lukas Hinrichs

Lukas Hinrichs

Managing Director

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