In the second webinar in Anaplan's sales performance management series, we explore three key benefits of transitioning away from spreadsheets for managing territories and sales capacity planning.
9. What keeps us awake at night?
• Long, slow drawn
out processes
• Territories and
quotas issued late
• Sales roles not
involved
Poor
Process
Demotivated
Salesforce
High Cost
Of Sale
• Unattainable quotas
• Inequitable
territories
• Poor performance
• Quotas not linked to
market potential
• Misallocation of
accounts
• Unable to respond to
change
10. Key trends
• Accelerating pace of change
• Increasing agility required
• Changes in go to market strategies
• Organizations increasingly re-setting budgets and priorities
• Changing profile of sellers
• Improvements in technology
11. Poll question
How do you set initial goals for your field sales force?
1. Prior year performance
2. Top down increase
3. Weighed index
4. Bottoms up sales potential
5. Fair share allocation
12. Target setting approaches
24%
Fair share
allocation
7%
Bottom up
sales
potential
18%
Top down
increase
24%
Weighted
index
27%
Prior year
performance
13. Effective target setting starts with…
• A well established process for calculating targets informed by business and market
conditions
• Transparent and understood by sales staff and management
• Targets are challenging but fair, realistic and motivational
• Crediting and territory rules effectively linked to strategy and sales incentives
• Ability to model territory changes from account level
• Clear visibility of territories and accounts for sales staff, managers and operations
14. Effective management is…
• Clearly defined roles and responsibilities
• Automated calculation of performance with real time reporting of achievement
• Modeling capability to understand the impact of target changes at all levels
• Flexibility to re-set targets rapidly across the organization
• Real time communication of territory and target changes
• Audit compliance and robust governance
15. TQM gives you that better edge
• Effective account
prioritization
• More responsive to
customer outcome
• Better alignment
increases revenue 2-7%
Increased
revenue
Selling
focus
Return on
investment
• Motivated sales staff
through smart quotas
• Stable/customer focused
deployment
• Accurate performance
reporting
• Reduced cost – smart
routing, no duplication
• Reduced turnover
• Better govern