8 weeks to mastering modern distribution pricing best practices in the age of AI.
HARDI's AI-Ready Pricing Manager certification program provides a practical approach to modern margin optimization. Your pricing managers will be equipped with the foundational tools necessary to audit pricing models, eliminate margin leakage, and set the strategic rules required to manage modern, tech-enabled pricing matrices.
This course ensures your team possesses the core distribution logic needed to maximize value capture, utilize pricing software effectively, and confidently guide algorithmic recommendations to align bottom-line profitability with customer retention.
The program focuses on five competency areas: Technology Enablement, Strategic Customer & Product Stratification, Balancing Value Creation, Price Realization, & Margin Leakage, Dynamic Pricing Playbooks, and Connecting Pricing Directly to Shareholder Value
OUR THREE STEP PROCESS:
STEP 1:
Assess
Mastering Frameworks & Margin Realization (Weeks 1-2)
Week 1: Strategic Blueprints for Pricing Architecture
Week 2: Financial Guardrails of Margin Management
STEP 2:
Collaborate
Data Foundations & Matrix Stratification (Weeks 3-6)
Week 3: Customer Matrix Stratification
Week 4: Price Equation & Product Groups
Week 5: Product Stratification & Matrix Playbooks
Week 6: Margin Recovery, Visibility & Pricing ROI
STEP 3:
Transform
Change Management & Action Deployment (Weeks 7-8)
Week 7: The Human-in-the-Loop Framework: Executing Change Management
Week 8: The Action Roadmap: Deploying Pricing Strategy in a Digital World
Obtain neutral feedback and adapt through quarterly catch-ups.
NEW IN 2026!
AI-Augmented Analytics & Decision Making
We teach you how to use AI to textually interpret pricing matrices, translate margin data, and augment your strategic decision-making, transforming how you capture value without needing a technical background.
Augment judgment, don't price blindly: Your ERP or pricing software still calculates numbers and updates matrices. You will learn to use AI to augment your judgment around those numbers.
Translate pricing metrics into strategic stories: Watch live demonstrations of AI translating complex pricing metrics into plain-English narratives you can present to leadership.
Accelerate pricing matrix data into action plans: Learn how to use AI to quickly process raw gross margin data into structured customer tiers and prioritized matrix optimization action lists in minutes.
Who is This For?
Pricing Managers & Margin Analysts: Who need to sharpen their strategic skills to properly configure, update, and manage modern software price matrices.
Purchasing & Sales Operations Managers: Who want to balance sales team flexibility with profit maximization using precise data rather than guesswork.
Operations & Executive Leadership: Looking to ensure that corporate technology implementations don't lead to margin erosion or disconnected pricing rules.
PROGRAM INSTRUCTORS:
Pradip Krishnadevarajan & Senthil Gunasekaran
Pradip is passionate about using an approach that combines data and coaching to help companies drive profitable growth. He is recognized in the industry as a thought leader, with 15 plus years of experience assisting hundreds of companies directly.
Senthil is passionate about driving profitable growth through analytics. An engineer at heart, he brings a quantitative approach to business challenges, leading to unbiased solutions to optimize value.
