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To meet the requirement of showing "Promotion Total" values (aggregated scalars like Total ROI, Total Spend, or Total Uplift) rather than a time-series grid, the consultant should utilize the Scorecard component of the Real-Time Reporting (RTR) module.

Scorecard RTR:This UI component is specifically designed to display single, high-level summary metrics (KPIs) in a card format. It is ideal for "at a glance" impact analysis.

Configuration:The process involves:

Flagging the necessary KPIs (e.g., Total Volume, ROI) as"Report Relevant"in the KPI Set configuration so they are exposed to the reporting layer.

Adding these KPIs to theRTR ConfigurationJSON.

Embedding this specific Scorecard component on thePromotion Record Pagein Lightning App Builder.

Why not Flatlist?AFlatlist(Option B) is typically used for tabular, time-phased data (e.g., a grid showing Volume Week 1, Week 2, Week 3). For a "Total Level" summary, a Flatlist is the wrong visualization tool.

Access control in TPM often requires finer granularity than standard Salesforce Record Sharing allows. While you can use Sharing Rules (Option A) to control visibility of Product records, it becomes difficult to manage complex matrices (e.g., User A sees Beverages for Customer X, but Snacks for Customer Y) and can impact system performance if rules become too complex.

The purpose-built solution in Consumer Goods Cloud TPM is User Settings.

Within the TPM administration, you can define specific Managed Products (or categories) and Managed Accounts for each user.

Configuration:The consultant navigates to the User Settings for the KAM.

Assignment:They select "Beverages" in the Product definition section.

When this KAM logs into the TPM Planning Grid (P&L), the application logic reads these User Settings and filters the data query. The KAM will simplynot seeany products outside the Beverages category. This is a functional application-level filter that ensures the planning environment is tailored to their specific responsibility, making Option C the recommended best practice over the broad platform-level sharing rules.

This question focuses on the precise configuration of KPI Definitions within the Calculation Engine (Processing Services). Every KPI in TPM (like "Revenue" or "Volume") requires specific instructions on how and when to calculate.

The critical requirement in the prompt is that the calculation must occur in the"Shipment Time frame."In TPM, a promotion typically has multiple timeframes:

Placement/In-Store:When the product is on the shelf.

Shipment:When the product is delivered to the retailer (often weeks earlier).

Consumption:When the shopper buys it.

If a KPI is configured with the default time scope (often "Promotion" or "Placement"), the engine will calculate revenue based on the dates the promotion is active in the store. However, financial recognition for the manufacturer usually happens atShipment. Therefore, to ensure the "Component-level revenue" reflects the financial reality of when goods were shipped, theTime Scopesetting in the KPI configuration must be explicitly set toShipment.

While "Object Scope" (Option A) and "BOM Scope" (Option C) controlwhatis being calculated (the Tactic or the Component), they do not control thetemporalaspect. Only theTime Scopedetermines the specific date range (Shipment Start to Shipment End) used for the data retrieval and calculation logic.

When conducting Discovery sessions, a consultant must tailor their approach to the audience. Executive-level stakeholders (VPs, C-Suite, Directors) are rarely concerned with the tactical nuances of button placement (User Interface - Option C) or the technical novelty of features (Benchmarks - Option B) in isolation. Their primary mandate is the financial and strategic health of the organization.

Therefore, the most critical factor is aligning the TPM solution withStrategic ObjectivesandROI. Executives want to know how the system will help them grow revenue, improve trade spend efficiency (getting more sales for every dollar spent on promotions), or expand into new markets.

A consultant must frame the requirements gathering around questions like: "How do you currently measure the profitability of your trade spend?" or "What are your growth targets for the next fiscal year, and how does your current system hinder them?" By anchoring the solution recommendation in these strategic goals (Option A), the consultant ensures executive sponsorship. If the solution is technically perfect but fails to deliver the business insights required for market expansion or margin analysis, it will be deemed a failure by the executive leadership.

This scenario addresses a common data granularity mismatch: the Planning is done at the Parent (Anchor) level, but the Data (Base Volumes) resides at the Child (Sub Account) level.

To bridge this gap, thePromotion TemplateandAccount P&Lmust be configured forAggregation.

Select Sub Accounts on Account P&L:The Key Account Manager must essentially "opt-in" the relevant sub-accounts into the view. This tells the systemwhichchildren contribute to this plan.

Calculation Mode: Sub Account Aggregation:This is the specific setting in the Promotion Template that dictates the engine's behavior. Instead of looking for a baseline volume record attached directly to the Parent Account (which doesn't exist in this scenario), the engine is instructed to look at the selected Sub Accounts, retrieve their individual baselines, andsum them up(Aggregate) to display the total at the Planning Account level.

Without this "Sub Account Aggregation" mode, the baseline at the planning level would likely show as zero because the system would default to looking for a direct match at the parent level. Option B correctly identifies the combination of UI selection (P&L) and calculation logic (Aggregation Mode) required to surface this data.

In the TPM User Interface, the Promotion P&L is divided into distinct sections known as "Cards" to organize the massive amount of data. The two primary cards are the Volume Planning Card (VPC) and the Spend Planning Card (SPC).

VPC (Volume Planning Card):Contains metrics related to quantities, such as Baseline Volume, Uplift Volume, and Total Volume.

SPC (Spend Planning Card):Contains financial metrics, such as Fixed Fees, Variable Spend, ROI, and Margins.

The requirement is to add a column for a "fixed amount" next to "Planned Fixed Spend." Since "Fixed Spend" is a financial/monetary metric, it resides within theSpend Planning Card. Creating the KPI definition is only the first step. To make that KPI visible on the UI, it must be assigned to the correctKPI Subset. The KPI Subset effectively acts as a filter or a view controller. If you create a financial KPI but do not assign it to theSPC Subset(Option B), it will exist in the system but will remain invisible to the KAM on the promotion screen. Option A is incorrect because the VPC is for volume, not spend. Option C is incorrect because "tactic subset" generally refers to the configuration of the tactic list itself, not the financial grid columns.

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In the Salesforce Consumer Goods Cloud (CGC) architecture, data is split between the core Salesforce platform (where standard objects like Assortments and Products reside) and the Cloud Processing Service (the high-performance calculation engine usually hosted on Hyperforce/Heroku).

When a Key Account Manager (KAM) updates aProduct Assortmentin the core platform—for example, adding a new SKU to the "Summer 2025" list—this change is committed to the Salesforce database immediately. However, the TPM Planning Grid (the P&L view) and the Promotion Product Selector rely on the Processing Service to render data quickly. The Processing Service uses a cached or synchronized version of the master data to perform its complex calculations.

If the KAM immediately tries to create a promotion for the new product, it might not appear in the selector because the Processing Service is unaware of the update. Merely refreshing the screen (Option C) only reloads the UI, not the underlying data cache. Therefore, to bridge the gap between Core Salesforce and the Calculation Engine, the KAM or an automated process mustSync the changes(specifically the Assortment-Product links) to the processing service. This action pushes the new relationship into the engine's memory, making the product available for immediate promotion planning and calculation.

While Salesforce Lightning Reports (Option C) are excellent for standard object data (Name, Slogan, Phase), they struggle to access the calculated KPIs (Volume, ROI, Spend) that reside in the Processing Service's memory or JSON blobs, unless those KPIs are explicitly written back to the database. Even with writeback, joining them in a formatted "Promotion Level Report" (often implying a tear-sheet or printable summary) can be rigid.

Real-Time Reporting (RTR)(Option A) is a UI component forviewingdata on a screen, not generating a persistent "Report" document.

Therefore, for a requirement that mixes standard metadata (Slogan, Phase) with complex calculated KPIs into a cohesive report, the recommended best practice in the TPM ecosystem is often anExternal Reporting Solution(Option B) such as CRM Analytics (Tableau CRM) or a third-party generator. These tools can ingest the Writeback data (or query the API), join it with the Promotion Object metadata, and render the pixel-perfect layout required by the customer3.

The Promotion Template is the master controller for the layout and behavior of a specific type of promotion. When a business defines different types of promotions—for example, a "Full P&L Promotion" versus a "Volume Only Promotion"—they use different Promotion Templates to tailor the user experience.

For a "Volume Only" promotion, the business might want to hide financial complexity (like ROI or Fixed Funds) butmustshow the volume data. The visibility of the major UI components (Cards) is toggled directly on thePromotion Templaterecord.

Within the Promotion Template configuration, there are specific checkboxes or settings for:

Show VPC (Volume Planning Card):Controls if the volume grid is visible.

Show SPC (Spend Planning Card):Controls if the financial grid is visible.

To ensure the KAM can see the VPC, the consultant must navigate to the specificPromotion Templateused for "Volume Only" promotions and ensure the VPC visibility setting is enabled. While KPI Subsets (Option B) controlwhichcolumns appear inside the card, the Promotion Template (Option C) controls whether the card appearsat all. Tactic templates (Option A) control the individual tactics (e.g., Display, Flyer) and do not control the high-level promotion page layout.

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In Consumer Goods Cloud TPM, many KPIs (like Effective Price) are calculated "on the fly" by the processing engine in the browser or the calculation grid. They do not automatically exist as stored data records in the database that an external integration tool can simply "query."

To make a calculated KPI available for integration (extraction to an ERP or Data Warehouse), you must configureWriteback. Writeback instructs the system to physically save the calculated value into a storage table (typically the Promotion Product or a generic Measurement table) whenever the promotion is saved.

The requirement asks specifically for the value "for each product." Therefore, theStorage Levelmust be set toProduct. If it were set to "Tactic" or "Promotion," the granular product-level price data would be aggregated and lost. Once Writeback is enabled and the storage level is correct, the data exists as physical records in Salesforce objects. These can then be extracted using standard methods like theIntegration APIsorRTR CSV Extracts. Option B describes this exact configuration workflow: Enable Writeback -> Set Level to Product -> Extract via API. Option A discusses "Conditions" which is a different concept related to pricing logic, not generic KPI extraction.