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Objectives
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Oracle
L E-Business Suite
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every function - within your company: marketing, sales, support, finance, human resources,
consulting, education, engineering, and so on. It automates functions that include procurement,
order management, contracting, projects, supply chain, alliances, and many others.
Oracles goals in engineering this automation were to:
Integrate all corporate data and processes within a single database
To use only standard tools (HTML, Java, XML, and the Oracle database)
To accommodate all essential business processes while eliminating any need for
customization
To use the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) to provide a map between
applications to orchestrate how the services created by an application should be used by
other applications.
The best of breed approach attempts to automate processing within departments but Oracle
E-Business Suite automates within and across departments to accommodate complete business
flows.
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Enterprise
Roles in Sales Flow
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Sales Manager
A sales manager is the administrative professional in charge of sales campaigns and the
overall sales plan of an organization.
Sales Administrator
The Sales Administrator role enables a sales group member (such as an administrative
assistant, or other support team member) to have access to all leads, opportunities,
customers, and contacts to which the manager of the sales group has access.
Sales Representative
A sales representative, also known as a sales agent, typically answers customer inquiries
online, in person, or via telephone. This person may also set up quotes, proposals, and
perform some administrative tasks with opportunities and leads.
TeleSales Agent
A telesales agent is a sales representative who interacts with the customer via telephone.
This person, for example, would use Oracle TeleSales to interact with customers.
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TwoLTypes of Customer Relationships
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Selling to customers who are the end users of a product or service (known as B2C selling) can
require the same support for complex selling processes as is required when selling to
organizations (known as B2B selling).
Oracle Sales provides a complete solution for managing leads, opportunities and customer
information for both kinds of transactions.
Scenarios supported in Oracle Sales
Oracle Sales can be configured to support B2B only scenarios, B2C only scenarios, and
blended scenarios where both B2B and B2C features are enabled.
The B2B features are enabled out of the box and an implementing organization may use OA
personalization to enable product features to suit B2C only or blended scenarios.
The E-Business Suite uses a common data model (Trading Community Architecture) for
addressing both types of relationships.
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Oracle
L Sales Flow
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Customers show interest and change their mind, therefore a lead does not progress to an
opportunity.
A telesales campaign prompts telesales agents to make outbound calls; the lead is
generated and converted to an opportunity.
A customer adds information to an iStore shopping cart and requests a quote from a sales
person.
Note there can be many different variations to the sales flow.
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Oracle
L Sales Flow: Sales Campaigns
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Oracle
L Sales Flow: Capture/Convert Leads
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Oracle
L Sales Flow: Manage Opportunities
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information about the products a customer has expressed an interest in buying. Opportunities
differ from leads because the expected revenue from the sale can be tracked, as can the
likelihood of closing the deal. Opportunities can also be used as the basis for allocating sales
credits towards quotas, and quotes can be created from them.
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Oracle
L Sales Flow: Create Forecast
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Forecasting can be used by individual sales representatives or in a consolidated form by
managers, to commit the amount of sales they predict will close by the end of the forecasting
period.
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Oracle
L Sales Flow: Prepare Proposal
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business need. The creation of proposals is based on pre-determined templates, allowing you to
use pre-existing content, and standardized document layouts, as well as information stored in
the database during the sales cycle.
Proposals can be created from:
The Proposals page
A quote in the Quote Details page
An opportunity in Oracle TeleSales or Oracle Sales
A customer in Oracle TeleSales or Oracle Sales
A lead in Oracle Sales
If a proposal is created from a quote, opportunity, customer, or lead the corresponding
information is carried over from the source object to the proposal.
If the proposal is created standalone from Oracle Proposals, the information must be manually
entered.
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To create a proposal, select a template from a list of templates that an administrator has
provided and configure the proposal details.
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Oracle
L Sales Flow: Prepare Quote
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and special offers associated with an item which is part of a sale.
Oracle Quoting calculates and stores pricing for each item, estimates associated shipping and
tax costs, and passes the information to Order Management at order placement. Order
Management then determines fulfillment of the order.
Assumptions:
There are a number of processes that can precede this flow:
Lead to Opportunity in TeleSales or Sales
Inbound call to Lead for TeleSales
Outbound call to Lead related to Sales Campaign
Shopping Cart from iStore to Contract
There are a number of processes that can occur following this flow:
Quote to Warranty or Extended Warranty
Quote to Order
Order to Shipment (or Drop Shipment)
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Oracle
L Sales Flow: Place Order
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implementation parameters and whether the order is placed through Oracle iStore or Oracle
Quoting.
Oracle iStore Orders
The following is the basic flow for Oracle iStore orders:
After placing items in the shopping cart, the customer selects the Checkout button from
the shopping cart.
Enters shipping and billing information.
Reviews terms and conditions of the order. If the terms are acceptable, the order is placed.
If the terms are rejected, the sales assistance process is initiated, and the cart becomes a
quote in Oracle Quoting.
Optionally, the customer can also request sales representative assistance before placing the
order. In this case, the sales assistance process is initiated, and the cart becomes a quote in
Oracle Quoting.
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The customer clicks the Place Order button, and the order is submitted to Oracle Order
Management.
Oracle Quoting Orders
The following is the basic flow for sales representatives using Oracle Quoting:
Creates a new quote or retrieves an existing quote
Adds products to the quote and verifies pricing
Verifies customer, shipping, and billing information
Selects Place Order to submit the order into Oracle Order Management
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Oracle
L Sales Flow: Close Opportunity
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Oracle
L Sales Flow: Submit Forecast
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Once a worksheet is saved or submitted, Oracle Sales will calculate Judgment for each forecast
value.
Judgment is calculated as the difference between the product category forecast value entered in
the Forecast Worksheet, and the corresponding value in the Opportunity Forecast Summary.
Judgment helps you to determine the difference between a salesperson's forecast and the actual
pipeline for that product category, which can indicate a forecast is incorrect.
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Summary
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