Introduction to Scenario Products
Scenario products are dummy products you can use in Pickler to calculate footprints for products that don’t yet exist or aren’t part of your current inventory. Imagine a customer asking, "My current supplier sells me virgin PE films. Do you know the actual impact difference if I'd switch to your recycled PE films?"
This is exactly the type of question scenario products help you answer.
What Are Scenario Products in Pickler?
In Pickler, there are two types of products you can work with:
Inventory products
Scenario products
Scenario products are exclusive to Pickler’s sales subscription. They allow you to create dummy products to calculate and compare the estimated footprints for:
Non-existing products
Products that aren’t part of your inventory
This feature empowers your sales team to provide more tailored offers and respond to client-specific questions, enhancing the customer experience.
Scenario Products vs. Inventory Products
It’s important to understand the difference between scenario products and inventory products. Here’s a clear breakdown:
| Inventory products | Scenario products |
Definition | Represent real life products and actual data. | Dummy products, that can't be used to make claims. |
Purpose and usecases | Calculate the impact of an actual product. | Recreate a product of a competitor.
Use to predict the impact of a future product.
Change variables of an existing product to see what the changes are. |
Use in app | You must be able to provide evidence for your data input.
| No evidence required.
Come with a warning banner.
Can't be shared as a widget. |
How do you create a scenario product?
Scenario product can be created by:
Duplicating existing inventory products and then editing;
Made from scratch (same as inventory product, but saved as scenario product).
Why scenario products can't be used in marketing
In marketing, you're only allowed to make claims based on data you own/ can prove: your inventory products.
Scenario products are based on scenarios, not real-life proof. Hence, why scenario products can only be used in sales where context can be provided to guide decision-making for customers.