Vantage
Plan Incentives With Precision
Vantage is JD Power’s on-demand, cloud-based incentives scenario-planning tool. Using PIN data and predictive analytics, it simulates cash, finance, and lease strategies—helping OEMs to forecast and optimize outcomes by region, model, trim, and timing before execution.
Predictive Incentive Optimization
• Simulates incentive strategies across regions, models, and timeframes
• Uses transaction data to model pricing and demand relationships
• Enables side-by-side comparison of multiple planning scenarios
• Integrates market inputs into structured planning models
• Supports analysis across vehicle segments and geographies
Reduce Spend, Improve Outcomes
• Potential to reduce incentive spend 4–8% without negatively impacting volume performance through more targeted incentive allocation
• Enables faster response to changing market conditions
• Aligns teams around shared planning and modeling scenarios
• Strengthens forecasting and short-term planning capabilities
Key Features
Scenario Modeling
• Simulation strategies across regions and timeframes
• Models pricing and demand relationships using transaction data
• Structures scenarios across consistent variables and assumptions
• Supports modeling across segments and geographic markets
Built for Team Speed
• Across Sales, Marketing, and Finance teams
•Shared assumptions and consistent planning inputs
• Scenarios with live changes to inputs and conditions
• Mid-cycle adjustments across monthly and quarterly planning
• Continuously updated planning environment
Predictive Optimization
• Historical PIN transaction data to validate incentive strategies
• Multiple market conditions and scenario forecasts
• High- and low-performing incentive levers
• Predictive models to evaluate pricing and incentive effectiveness
• Pre-launch testing across regions and vehicle segments
Who Vantage Is Built For
• OEM Sales Operations and Regional Sales Managers
• OEM Pricing and Incentives
• OEM Finance / FP&A
