Sales Management & Planning

Sales Planning is the key initiative for a successful business. Without a good plan nobody within the organization knows what to do and what to expect. Small mistakes and unprecise assumptions can have a big impact on the corporate result. Therefore a global Enterprise should use the right professional solution and not trust on Excel files or systems that don’t fulfill the requirements.

Vistalution provides the tool to professionally manage Automotive Sales Planning and Forecasting.

Challenges

Complexity, Dependencies and Standards

Your Organization has Thousands of Part Numbers to manage, and it is getting more and more every year. The biggest challenge is to bring them in relation to the right Projects, to understand which one is replacing another, which are supplied together at same quantities, to understand in which vehicles they are fitted and which changes in terms of volumes and prices do have which impact.
Those data need to be dynamic – whenever changes in vehicle production are faced, new exchange-rates are issued or a different weighting should be used, the effect should be incorporated automatically.
That’s only possible when your planning is based on certain standards and all team members work on the same source of data.
This can only be managed and controlled with the right software solution.

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Key Aspects

Consolidation & Integration

Predictive Planning

With the combination of Actual Sales figures, short-term- and long-term Forecast in one System we avoid any duplication of maintenance efforts and reduce the issue of data inconsistencies.
The integration of ERP data and External Source Data limits manual input of your Sales Team and increases precision in planning.
In this way you are able to analyze your past- and current business together with future Opportunities in one tool.
A predictive life Analysis can be based on solid consistent assumptions and allows you to base your decisions on reliable data.

Advantages

Planning with VISTAlution provides

Planning accuracy

Your planning is linked to vehicle production data, actual sales, orders and factory calendars for precision over the entire life cycle.

Planning efficiency

Your planning process efficiently structured in one system – without error-prone, manually created Excel worksheets. Create versions with a mouse click.

Planning consistency

Your entire team plans under the same assumptions with the same definitions.

Planning consensus

All departments use the same planning basis and have access from the first planning phase. Direct communication about project assumptions.

Planning compatibility

Comparison of different planning statuses with deviation analysis – on the same assumptions

Planning dynamics

Easily implement and take current influences into account by importing new production data

Planning flexibility

New exchange rates, different probabilities, a change in weighting – everything is variable

Planning with joy

Satisfied, relieved, convinced team members who will appreciate the advantages of a professional system

Process Enhancement

A revolutionary Planning & Forecasting process

Many Organizations are using different systems or even Excel files to manage the individual Forecasting and Planning activities. They start with different source data and plan top down and bottom up. This requires a lot of time for the Sales Teams and leads to unsatisfying results. Often the Marketing- or Finance Teams are then left alone with consolidation, adjustment and analysis tasks and the Management needs to wait for the outcome.

VISTAlution does this in one process & system

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Features

User-friendly Data Input

User-friendly Data Input

Predefined Drop Down fields where possible. Intelligent input popups for Volumes and Prices. Project input on just one page

One Page Project Overview

One Page Project Overview

The complete Project Data on one page allows easy access and maintenance.

Dynamic Executive Summaries

Dynamic Executive Summaries

Project Summaries that can be shared and exported with one mouse click. Always up-to-date and in consistent clean format

Business Dashboard

Business Dashboard

Great insight to your business with filterable dynamic Dashboards containing charts and tables.

Real-time Reports

Real-time Reports

All reports are based on life data. Each update is directly reflected in the next report

Lifecycle Timeline

Lifecycle Timeline

Understand where you stand in the project lifecycle. The animated timeline chart presents the key dates

Linked Data Pull

Linked Data Pull

Volumes and Prices from your ERP can be implemented through data pull to the appropriate Part Numbers.

Workflows

Workflows

Workflows support the completion of tasks and track the progress in chronological order

User-friendly Admin

User-friendly Administration

The complete Administration for a multi Productslines Enterprise can be managed by one Administrator

Role-Based User Access

Role based User Access

User Roles allow granting specific access rights for users of different departments

Notifications

Notifications

Notifications inform users about completed activities of Colleagues or the Administrator

Versioning

Versioning

Freezing different Versions of a Plan or Forecast enable to run Comparisons

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