Thursday, February 13, 2014

Core Modules - Pricing

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Pricing capabilities support automatic pricing during key order transactions. Two basic pricing models are used:
  • Best pricing for sales quotes and sales orders
  • List/discount pricing for scheduled orders



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Core Modules - Sales Analysis

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Sales Analysis monitors salesperson productivity and effectiveness as well as giving greater visibility on sales by product line or item:
  • Provides ranking of items by sales, margin, or quantity
  • Integrates with Sales Orders and Invoicing



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Core Modules - Sales Orders

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Sales Orders and Invoicing provide a variety of methods for order creation, credit verification, confirming orders, inventory allocation, picking and shipping products, processing invoices and handling returns.
  • Sales Orders can be created from Sales Quotes, received electronically using EDI or entered manually
  • Integrates with Pricing to accommodate a wide range of pricing situations, allowing for best pricing
  • Automatically transfers posted invoices to Accounts Receivable for aging, payment maintenance, and integration with General Ledger
  • Correction Invoices; create a correction sales invoice for an original invoice, keep track of the relationship between original and correction invoices, and print correction invoices that show original amounts, corrected amounts, and the difference



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Core Modules - Sales Quotations

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Sales Quotations supports the generation of multi-line sales quotations utilizing advanced pricing capabilities (promotional pricing, temporary price reductions, customer price lists etc) and supporting complex and high volume environments.
  • Allows the user to create responses to customer requests for quotes (RFQs), and maintain historical information on sales quotations to customers
  • Create sales orders by releasing Sales Quotes to Sales Orders/Invoices
  • Item up-sell, cross-sell and item replacement: identify similar or replacement items for discontinued items, items that are not available and additional complementary items
  • Enables win/loss analysis



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Core Modules - Customer Relationship Management

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Customer Relationship Management (CRM) provides a 360-degree view of your customer, integrating customer information at every touch point.
  • Lower costs while attracting and retaining customers
  • Generate greater customer loyalty
  • Increase cross-sell and up-sell successes
  • Improve sales forecasting
  • Improve customer responsiveness with access to relevant and timely data



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Customer Issue Management

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  • Log customer issues
  • Assign issues to customer service staff for follow up along with activities to advance the issue
  • Associate issues with a profile, a service contract and/or an item of installed base equipment
  • Integrates with activity management to offer calendar views and escalation capabilities
  • Full audit trail of issues through the customer lifecycle



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Key Features of Customer Relationship Management

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  • Customer console – Complete access to customer information - quotes, orders invoices, Accounts Receivable, Sales History Installed Products and Service calls in a single screen
  • Sales dashboard - Four predefined sales key performance indicators (KPIs) offer the salesperson a graphical view of their sales performance, sales funnel and past-due sales activities
  • Maintain prospect and customer profiles - maintain list of contacts (decision makers, influencers), business characteristics, locations, financial information, past sales history, existing opportunities, installed base equipment owned by the company
  • Manage opportunities – Develop leads, build pipelines
  • Manage sales activities - Manage activities related to the sales cycle
    • Meetings, phone calls, e-mail messages, product demonstrations and more
    • Manage both profile related activities and non profile activities such as internal sales meetings
    • Create alerts for follow up tasks, calls and meetings
    • All activities are kept in history for possible referral at a later date
    • View in standard Calendar format either daily weekly or monthly
    • Synchronize activities with Microsoft Outlook® calendars for PDA visibility
  • Campaign management - monitor campaign costs, stages and activities, develop target audience, media options
  • Analyze campaign performance - view history of activities associated with campaigns that have been completed
  • Manage business opportunities - filter records and generate various reports




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