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Salient Reviews & Product Details

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Business Development Manager
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What do you like best about Salient?

A detailed report with COGS, gross margin, gross profit, cost per piece, cost per case, material margin, net profit, YOY comparison etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Salient?

There's nothing to dislike about margin minder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Salient solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have made my budget with the help of margin minder.

A MTD report which saves the times of sales people.

YTD reports, YOY comparison.

I had my forecasted budget with help of margin minder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Salient?

Salient’s Consumer Goods Application gives you a complete picture of performance by correlating all relevant information your company gathers. Sources include Route Accounting Systems, cost of goods, operations, financials, as well as syndicated data such as Nielsen or IRI. This allows executives, sales managers, and field reps to evaluate sales and profitability within their customers and products, as well as improve effectiveness of space allotted.

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Enables companies to use data from their existing processes to correlate actions to profit, growth, efficiency and productivity.

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Salient Management Company
Year Founded
1986
HQ Location
Horseheads, NY
Twitter
@SalientMgmtComp
16 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
144 employees on LinkedIn®
Phone
607-739-4511
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Tricia A.
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Tricia A.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Great reporting tool"
Data can be pulled from many different field with a great graphical view
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Easy to learn and very detailed. you can narrow and custom your search
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
2.5 out of 5
"Margin Minder is easy once you figure it out, but initially it’s not user friendly at all."
The filtering system because it gives me exactly what I'm looking for.
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Tricia A.
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What do you like best about Salient?

Data can be pulled from many different field with a great graphical view Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Salient?

Limited to only 5 fields of data in reporting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Know your field names Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Salient solving and how is that benefiting you?

The way data is viewed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Salient?

The filtering system because it gives me exactly what I'm looking for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Salient?

I dislike the wordiness of everything. It gets confusing knowing which folder to go into for certain things I'm looking for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Salient solving and how is that benefiting you?

How many cases have been sent into each account is very helpful to help me fill voids. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Salient?

Easy to learn and very detailed. you can narrow and custom your search Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Salient?

although you can narrow everything down sometimes it requires too many steps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Salient:

take a training before using it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Salient solving and how is that benefiting you?

my district data by categories Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Food & Beverages
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What do you like best about Salient?

The ability to store your settings made it easier to program your requests Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Salient?

The user interface need to be upgraded but once you understood it it was ok. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Salient solving and how is that benefiting you?

We managed to isolate specific sectors to track KPIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Consumer Goods
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What do you like best about Salient?

The sales, distribution and financial breakdown. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Salient?

The system is difficult to learn on your own.

Training is essential. The tool has many features, focus on the features that help you in your particular position. The tool can be used by several internal teams. (Sales Marketing or Finance) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Salient:

The information that is submitted from your organization for the tool has to be clean. (Right address , zip codes etc.) Training on the system is essential. Know what you want to see and Margin Minder (Salient) can provide the view in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Salient solving and how is that benefiting you?

Where can I grow my business. Where are the opportunities in my current customer base. What items are driving the business.

The tool helps to measure sales, increased overall sales , revenue and distribution. It has the ability to give you directional ethnic and financial consumer sales results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Salient?

Salient Dashboards allow the user to easily explore areas of opportunity without the need for advanced coding knowledge. The Dashboards are user friendly, which allow the user to pinpoint areas of opportunity in a fraction of the time. The data is uploaded timely, and the reports are actionable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Salient?

There aren’t any dislikes that I have about the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Salient solving and how is that benefiting you?

Identify areas of opportunity in value based contracts (healthcare) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Prakash S.
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What do you like best about Salient?

The data , comparison from py sales to this ... drop size , case fill rate . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Salient?

Not particular but can have more improvement in terms of pie chart or graph method. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Salient:

The perfect tool for average sales... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Salient solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are monitoring the reason of cancellation , order fill rates and case fill rates . We got the real picture . like What was initial orders , what came in invoice and what was actual delivered . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Salient?

I liked how accurate and the deep dive you can take into all your numbers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Salient?

The software is a bit clunky and hard to navigate. It's a bit hard to understand what symbols mean. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Salient solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being able to compare your numbers day by day, year by year is a great advantage to see your strengths and weaknesses over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Salient?

Easy to use, much quicker than web version. Able to customize reports quicker and more effectively Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Salient?

A lot of information and the layout and icons are confusing at times Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Salient:

Change the web version to be able to apply more filters than one, before the page reloads Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Salient solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tracking sales, shipments, and Points of distribution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Salient?

Product is easy to use. Many features with detailed tracking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Salient?

The product has many great features that requires in depth training for full benefit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Salient solving and how is that benefiting you?

Superb sales tracking Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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