Key Performance Indicators SAP Best Practices SAP Endorsed Business Solutions SAP for High Tech Partner Opportunities Profitable businesses incorporate a comprehensive set of activities to grow and attain revenue within market opportunities. From market forecasts, sales targets are set and provide the foundation of the sales plan. Sales forecasts are allocated to territory and channel, and further allocated down to channel managers and sales representatives. There is no better indication of sales quota attainment then a strong pipeline. Marketing and sales are responsible for filling the pipeline through various lead generation programs. Thorough qualification leads the prospect through to close. Long term revenue generation depends on excellent customer service and repeat business. Sales plans that can be accurately converted into supply chain plans insure customers receive their products and services when requested or needed. Sales' planning is the first step in the supply chain process. Inaccurate forecasts, or forecasts independent of product disconnects the supply chain from demand. Poor planning leads to customer complaints, too much of the wrong inventory, missed orders, and lost sales. Sales planning ties sales metrics to supply chain metrics to insure coordinated effort to meet revenue and service levels at least cost. Business Goals & ObjectivesIncrease Speed & Efficiency Reduce time-to-market & volumeIncreasing Revenue Gain market shareLowering Working Capital Increase inventory turnsReducing Operating Costs & Increasing Efficiency Improve inventory visibility
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Top-Down Sales Planning![]() |
Sales targets are defined on the basis of historical values, market information, and analysis results related to customers, products, and benefits. Initially, these targets are created top-down and passed on to the sales units. The individual sales units then use their own information basis to plan the sales targets they believe they can realize. These two target values are weighed up against one another in a planning comparison. In a defined process, they then lead to binding sales targets for the coming period(s). With value orientation in mind, companies concentrate on those customers, products, and benefits/services that promise a high revenue potential and long-term customer retention. The customer value serves as an important target figure and control instrument.more...
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Sales Planning![]() |
Sales Planning is a planning application for translating company targets into concrete, concerted marketing, sales, and service strategies. This application is based on a reconciled top-down and bottom-up sales planning process helping to increase visibility resulting in improved decision-making and profitability.
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Sales Planning and Forecasting![]() |
In Sales Target Planning, a sales manager set sales or contribution targets for the sales employees in the field. Since the sales manager and the sales employees use a common planning platform, the planning tasks performed by the sales manager are closely reconciled with the business planning and operational planning tasks performed by the sales employees. You can specify as many dimensions for entering planning figures (such as sales region, product group) as you need for your planning requirements. The different planners can access the same data but plan at different levels. |
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Sales Planning Analysis and Controlling![]() |
Value-oriented sales controlling provides information on the revenue and expenses situation and on contribution margins for each distribution channel. This information is available to each individual sales unit, and can be aggregated over all hierarchy levels right up to corporate level. This type of efficient controlling provides the means for identifying which value contribution is made to the insurance company by the distribution channels or agent categories (and with which products and customers, and in which regions). Using a balanced scorecard is an option. |
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Sales Performance Analysis![]() |
The Sales Performance Analysis measures performance from different perspectives in order to give sales managers an overall picture of what is happening into sales more... |
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