PPU

Price Per Unit Strategy

Don’t just sell more.
Understand what each unit is worth.

Whether your unit is an item, hour, project, seat, transaction or service, the price you achieve is only one part of the commercial equation. I help businesses understand the relationship between price, volume, mix, capacity, cost and profitability — then build a strategy to optimise it.

The commercial question What should we charge for each unit of value we deliver? And what happens to revenue, margin, demand and capacity when we change it?
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Price

What are customers willing to pay — and what price are we actually achieving?

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Volume

How many units can we sell, and how does demand respond to price?

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Mix

Which products, customers, services or work types make up the volume?

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Capacity

What constraints determine how much profitable work the business can deliver?

Price

Price optimisation starts with understanding the economics behind the price — not simply benchmarking against competitors.

  • Realised price vs list price
  • Customer and product variation
  • Discounting
  • Price elasticity
Where the strategy comes from

Find the levers that actually change profitability

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Price Architecture

Understand pricing structures, discounting, tiers, contracts and the difference between quoted price and realised price.

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Customer Value

Understand willingness to pay, customer segments, price sensitivity and the economic value of different relationships.

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Product & Service Mix

Identify which products, services, customers or activities create the strongest contribution to revenue and margin.

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Capacity Economics

Understand the relationship between available capacity, utilisation, throughput, price and profitability.

The objective

Optimise the economics — not simply the price

Understand What is happening today?
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Model What happens if we change the levers?
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Test Which scenarios make commercial sense?
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Implement What should actually change?
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Measure Did profitability improve?

The objective isn’t simply to raise prices. It’s to understand where pricing and commercial strategy can create sustainable value.