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 To collaborate with channel partners in Manufacturing Cloud, it is recommended to use external apps and Experience Cloud. External apps are applications that run outside of Salesforce but can integrate with Salesforce data and functionality. They can provide custom solutions for specific business needs and extend the capabilities of Manufacturing Cloud. For example, external apps can enable partners to access inventory levels, order status, product catalogs, and pricing information from Salesforce. Experience Cloud, formerly known as Community Cloud, is a platform that allows you to create branded digital experiences for your customers, partners, and employees. It can help you engage with your channel partners and provide them with self-service tools, collaboration features, and personalized content. For example, Experience Cloud can enable partners to view and update sales agreements, account forecasts, rebates, and targets from Salesforce. It can also help you train and onboard your partners, monitor their performance, and reward them for their achievements. References: Engage with Your Partners, Re-Imagining Partner Relationships with Manufacturing Cloud, Manufacturing Cloud

 The Mass Update function allows you to update multiple values of a single metric of a sales agreement in the Sales Agreement Terms tab. You can use this function to quickly adjust the planned quantity, revenue, or margin of multiple products and periods with a single action. The available actions are Decrease By, Increase By, and Replace With. These actions let you specify a percentage or an absolute value to decrease, increase, or replace the existing values. For example, you can use the Decrease By action to reduce the planned quantity of all products by 10% for the next quarter. You can also add a note to explain the reason for the mass update. References: Mass Update Sales Agreement Action, Update Multiple Values of Sales Agreements

To access the Rebate analytics functionality in Tableau CRM for Manufacturing, you need two licenses: Manufacturing Analytics Plus and Rebates Management Add on. Manufacturing Analytics Plus is a license that enables you to use the Analytics for Manufacturing app, which provides out-of-the-box dashboards and reports for sales agreements, forecasts, targets, and rebates. Rebates Management Add on is a license that enables you to use the Rebate Management feature, which allows you to create and manage custom rebate programs, automate payouts, and review processes. Together, these licenses allow you to perform what-if analysis, monitor program performance, and collaborate with channel partners using Tableau CRM for Manufacturing. References: Rebate Management - Salesforce Help, Salesforce Manufacturing Cloud Rebates What-If | Tableau Exchange, Streamline Channel Sales with an Intelligent Rebate Strategy - Salesforce

 The Analytics for Manufacturing App is a prebuilt app that includes dashboards to visualize and analyze data from various Manufacturing Cloud objects, such as sales agreements, account forecasts, account manager targets, and rebates. Before you can create the app, you need to ensure that your data meets some specific requirements, otherwise the app creation fails. One of the requirements is that at least one record must exist in each of the Manufacturing Cloud objects to be analyzed, such as Order, Sales Agreement, Account Forecast, and so on. This ensures that the app has some data to work with and can generate meaningful insights. The other requirements are related to record types, permissions, and field-level security1. References: Data Required to Create the Analytics for Manufacturing App, Set Up Analytics for Manufacturing, Deploy CRM Analytics for Manufacturing.

Before you create the analytics for manufacturing App, you need to ensure that your data meets some specific requirements. One of these requirements is that at least one record must exist in each of the Manufacturing cloud objects to be analyzed, such as sales agreements, account forecasts, account manager targets, and rebates. Otherwise, the data fails the CRM Analytics check and you see an error message. Having records in these objects ensures that the app can import and display relevant data for your business1. References: Data Required to Create the Analytics for Manufacturing App

The Time Period filter on a sales agreement record page allows you to view the sales agreement terms and schedules for different time periods. You can choose from three options: Range, Set Periods, and Current Period. Range lets you specify a start and end date for the filter. Set Periods lets you select up to eight periods from a list of predefined periods, such as quarters, months, or weeks. Current Period shows the current period based on the sales agreement’s period type and start date. Custom and Fiscal Year are not available options for the Time Period filter. References: = Filter Sales Agreement Schedules by Time Period, Filter Sales Agreement Terms by Products or Categories

 A sales agreement is a long-term contract that defines the terms and conditions for the products and services that you sell to your customers. You can perform various actions on a sales agreement to manage its lifecycle, such as approving, activating, expiring, or deleting it. Two of the out-of-the-box actions that you can perform on a sales agreement are:

Recalculate Actuals: This action updates the actuals for the sales agreement based on the invoices and orders associated with it. You can recalculate actuals manually or schedule it to run automatically at a specified frequency. Recalculating actuals helps you track the progress and performance of the sales agreement over time.

Update Products: This action allows you to add, remove, or modify the products and categories in the sales agreement. You can update products manually or use the mass update feature to apply changes to multiple products at once. Updating products helps you adjust the sales agreement to reflect the changing needs and preferences of your customers.

For integrating order data from an ERP system into Sales Agreements in Salesforce, the best practice is to create specific permission sets and possibly permission set groups that grant the necessary permissions, including write access to custom objects. These permission sets should then be assigned to the integration user account. This approach ensures that the integration user has precisely the access needed without the broad permissions that would come with using a Salesforce administrator account. It also allows for more granular control and security by limiting permissions to only those necessary for the integration's functionality.

 Rebate Management allows businesses to create and manage rebate programs that reward their partners for meeting sales targets. A rebate program consists of a rebate type, which defines the incentive structure, and a rebate agreement, which specifies the eligible partners and products. A rebate type benefit is a component of a rebate type that defines the thresholds of an incentive and how payouts are scaled for varying quantities and amounts. A benefit tier is a subcomponent of a rebate type benefit that specifies a range of sales targets and applicable benefit values. The minimum and maximum range values of a benefit tier must be positive integers and must not overlap with other benefit tiers in the same benefit. Therefore, the sequence of 0 to 100 is valid, while the other sequences are not. References: Rebate Management, Create and Manage Rebate Programs, Rebate Management Workflow