The distributor wants 5% more margin. Your move — and its true cost.
The distributor wants 5% more margin. Your move — and its true cost. A branching simulator where concessions, probes and non-price moves play out to their financial endings, with a debrief on every path.
Your largest distributor (18% of sales) demands 5 extra margin points, citing a competitor's offer. Your current margin to them is 22%; your contribution on their volume is ₹38 L/year. What do you open with?
Each choice leads to a realistic counter-move; every node shows the contribution cost in rupees per year.
The simulator teaches the three disciplines: information before money, conditions on every concession, and non-price value as currency.
Run it before real negotiations — the cheapest place to concede 5 points is in a simulator.
Illustrative figures, not a client outcome.
The structure is a composite of recurring channel-negotiation patterns — the inflated rival offer, the margin-that's-really-about-claims, the concession that returns next quarter. The figures are illustrative.
Yes — run it in pairs, one playing the distributor. The argument about which move to make is the training.
Version 1.0 · Reviewed 2026-10 · Methodology is fixed and version-controlled; results depend on your inputs.
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