What gets automated
Two jobs eat a pricing manager's month: repricing the catalog when supplier costs change, and answering reps who want a price for a quote. Elastly automates both. The catalog is repriced on a schedule or when a cost change syncs, and every new quote line is priced the moment it is saved. The manager's job becomes setting the policy and reviewing the exceptions.
What runs when
Everything below shows up in the recompute log and the pricing control center, with the diff before it goes live. The catalog runs on two triggers.
When cost changes
A synced cost change reprices the affected parts inside the policy and writes them to price levels and store lists.
On a schedule
A full catalog recompute daily, weekly or on your own calendar.
Quotes and dated changes
Two more triggers come from your team's day.
A quote line is saved
The line is priced with its factors in about a second and written back to the ERP quote.
A scheduled date arrives
A staged repricing or a new strategy goes live on the date you set, after you read the diff.
The market and the outcome
The last two keep the prices honest over time.
A competitor source is checked
The competitor index updates for matched parts and feeds the next price for those parts.
A quote outcome syncs
The model learns from the win or the loss and shows any drift against your policy.
Automation with limits
Automatic does not mean unattended. The policy caps every move. Changes larger than the policy allows wait in approvals with the reasons. Scheduled changes let you stage a repricing, read the diff and set the go-live date. The simulator shows what a new rule would have done last year before you switch it on.
If a run looks wrong, the recompute log shows every price it changed and why, and you can roll the batch back.
What the spreadsheet did
At Mineral Circles Bearings the pricing manager spent two days a month rebuilding the discount matrix in a spreadsheet. After go-live the matrix rebuild no longer exists, and reps accept 97% of the engine's quote prices without editing them.