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Oracle Sales Planning
Set, analyze, and adjust individual and team quotas to motivate sellers and increase their agility. Oracle Sales Planning has the data-driven tools needed to take a top- down or bottom- up approach to quota planning and use predictive analytics to improve modeling and identify optimal territory assignments.
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Sales quota planning
Use powerful, AI-driven predictive planning capabilities, flexible modeling, and analysis for data-driven quota plans that optimize market and sales territory coverage.
Predictive planning
Set quota targets based on predicted sales or historical actuals and modify them in anticipation of any known or possible risks. Adjustments can be made for products, accounts, and time/seasonality.
Flexible modeling
Use multidimensional and drillable what-if planning by territory, product, account, channel, seasonality, and more.
Built-in best practices
Leverage best-practice planning methodologies, such as top-down, bottom-up, or waterfall.
Data-driven
Calculate quotas that are right-sized and attainable by using connected finance data. Using historical actuals to drive the quota-planning process helps ensure optimal targets are set.
Prescriptive modules
Easily configurable prescriptive modules come with navigation, forms, dashboards and calculation business rules to meet the complexity, scale, and structure of your business.
Key account planning
Create better, more accurate forecasts, develop the right promotion strategies, foster collaboration, and run what-if scenarios with a data-driven sales and promotion planning tool.
Predictive baseline planning
Predict sales volumes and corresponding revenue based on statistical forecasting methods across customer segments, product groups, or channels. After estimating a base forecast, make incremental adjustments using building blocks for factors—price, product, or placement— that would affect additional sales or revenue. Do gap analyses between your sales targets and the baseline.
Promotion planning
Make data-driven promotion strategy decisions to get the most profitable sales. Add promotions and identify sales uplifts based on those promotions. Run various what-if scenarios by adding, removing, or reassigning different promotions to different products, Build best case or worst case scenarios.
Analysis
Make the right planning decisions by reviewing trade spend summaries, ROI on uplifts, and customer profit and loss. View promoted and nonpromoted volume and revenue as well as analyses across key accounts, product groups, and sales territories.
Advanced sales forecasting
Sales and finance both need more reliable forecasts, along with accountability and improved collaboration between sales management and sales reps. Advanced sales forecasting capabilities use the data from the sales pipeline and financial actuals for more advanced statistical predictions, so you can deliver the most accurate forecasts possible weekly, monthly, or on a rolling basis.
Full-picture forecasts
Develop a more accurate and realistic forecast from ERP actuals alongside your CRM pipeline data—without the need for spreadsheets; offline, manual processes; or extra steps.
Powerful foundational sales planning platform
Easily switch on additional configurations, such as custom forms and dashboards, measures, dimensions, navigation flows, and Groovy business rules for custom calculations.
Detailed, actionable analytics and reporting
View current, future, and past forecasts. Compare the latest forecasting data with pipeline and won revenue metrics. View evolving forecast trends with detailed sales revenue models and what-if analysis so you can react quickly to meet your sales goals.
Connected and integrated
Offer your sales teams and sales management connected sales planning with integration between quota planning, incentive compensation planning, and sales forecasts.
Product Tour—Oracle Sales Planning
Create accurate forecasts and achievable quotas with Oracle Sales Planning

Welcome to Oracle Sales Planning
Oracle Sales Planning provides a snapshot of quota data, dimensions, and performance across your business.
Create more accurate forecasts, develop strong promotional strategies, run what-if scenarios, and collaborate with data-driven tools and predictive analytics.

End-to-end data-driven planning
Improve efficiency and build high-performing sales teams with connected intelligence across sales, finance, and HR.
Connect key financial information with pipeline data to build adaptive plans and track your most valuable KPI: revenue. Set, analyze, and adjust territories and quotas with real-time data to motivate sellers—even as plans change.

Territory planning and modeling
Test and define territory hierarchies with territory modeling. Add, split, combine, and modify models or create territories based on geography, business units, product lines, industries, or named accounts. Move accounts from one territory to another or add new territories at the customer, opportunity, or account level.

Predictive planning
Set targets with a data-centric approach to planning so you can adjust predictions as needed. Determine and assign the right prediction to the right territories using detailed insights.

SmartView for Microsoft Office
Use familiar tools to tailor plans and processes to your selling practices. Access predictive planning capabilities in Excel or add live data links to PowerPoint with Oracle Smart View for Office.
Analyze and manipulate territories and act on evolving trends with detailed sales revenue models and what-if analysis.

Cross-dimensional quota planning
Oracle Sales Planning assigns quotas across multiple dimensions—including territory, product, and account—and adjusts for products, accounts, time or seasonality, and risk factors.
Give sales reps the ability to propose quotas directly to managers and set quotas based on past sales, existing territories, and historical financials.

Ramp up and profiling
Set predefined attributes for each group of reps based on their productivity, capacity, and experience to ensure you’re setting suitable quota targets.

Commission modeling
Simulate compensation outcomes for targeted quotas with various what-if scenarios. Change target quota, attainment bands, headcount, and commission structure.

Advanced forecasting
Create accurate forecasts by connecting ERP actuals with pipeline data from your CRM. Adjust accuracy and ensure realistic, actionable sales plans with predictive planning and profitability metrics.
With advanced forecasting, managers and sellers can review weekly progress to keep sellers on track—reducing their frustration and employee turnover.

Insights and analytics
Spend less time analyzing data and more time making forecasting decisions with insights into key trends, biases, correlations, and anomalies.

Account segmentation
Prioritize opportunities by analyzing account data according to industry, revenue range, size, employee range, and status. Build segments according to market potential and assign accounts across the organization.

Key account planning
Model and plan trade promotions for key accounts and products based on forecasts, what-if scenarios, and desired outcomes.
Perform gap analysis to test and select promotion options, then build your promotion with customizable blocks like pricing, placement, product, and more.
Provide sellers a single-view summary of key account data and promotion success with analysis dashboards.
Key benefits—sales planning in the cloud
01Use the Excel and PowerPoint interfaces you’re comfortable with
Use a Microsoft Office interface to access full predictive planning and forecasting capabilities, all from the easy familiarity of Excel, and add live data links to PowerPoint. Use real-time data, plan and forecast accurately, and eliminate version control issues.
02Remove the errors inherent in spreadsheet-driven sales planning
Get a realistic picture of what to expect with reliable, accurate forecasts. Set, analyze, and collaborate on quotas and promotion strategies. No more outdated information or version control issues.
03Provide quota plans on day one of your fiscal year
Create achievable quotas, build better territories, and align accounts so that your sales team is all set with the data they need. Connect key data sources across sales force automation, CRM, and finance (ERP, EPM) systems so that your quota plans are ready for the fiscal year.
04Improve sales effectiveness and get the most from your team
Motivate and retain top talent, adapt to unexpected market changes, and adjust quotas and territories to drive revenue.
05Improve sales efficiency and reduce errors
Stop chasing the wrong leads, identify risks before they become insurmountable, and identify potential, profitable new accounts.
Sales trends to keep up with in 2021: Advanced sales forecasting, connected sales planning, and performance management
Michelle Brusyo, Director, CX Outbound Product Management, Oracle
Many sales teams have been forced to reevaluate their processes for quota planning and management. To get a solid handle on how much has changed within the last year, our customers have increasingly turned to sales planning and sales performance management software. These solutions connect to your CRM and ERP for pipeline data and financial actuals, with built-in best practice methodologies for planning and analyzing territories and quotas.
Continue reading to learn what our sales force automation customers had to say about our solution.
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