Modernize Commercial Operations
Margin erosion, revenue leakage, and lost profits are significant challenges for manufacturers. Manage your entire book of business, from opportunity through order management, and align your sales and operations with accurate demand forecasting with manufacturing sales operations management software. Bridge the gap between sales promises and shop-floor realities to ensure operational efficiency and profitability.
Learn how manufacturers improve sales operations.
Reimagine your selling and revenue management processes.
Manufacturers, take control of your revenue. Leave outdated processes behind and unify customer data and operations for a powerful transformation. Automate sales with AI and integrate revenue management to boost operational efficiency.
Unify customer data on one platform.
- Leverage a hyperscaled data platform built into Salesforce. Harmonize your product, customer, and asset data into a single profile. Unlock revenue and power exceptional customer and channel experiences with Data Cloud.
- Create connected experiences, products, and services. Start with a sales solution that's tailored to your manufacturing business. Maximize productivity, get insights, and streamline processes with Manufacturing Cloud for Sales.
- Power your commercial operations. Manufacturing Cloud for Sales captures a complete picture of net new opportunities along side customer agreements, long-term projects, accurate demand forecast, and visit management.
- Enable seamless integrations across the sales value chain. Integrate data from any system to deliver critical, time-sensitive projects — all with a single platform for APIs and integrations with MuleSoft.
Modernize your selling processes with AI and automation.
- Manage your revenue acquisition processes. Create operational efficiency in the sales process with transparency in customer account processes, approvals, opportunity management, and lead management with Manufacturing Cloud for Sales.
- Craft and track effective incentive strategies. Channel incentives boost sales and loyalty. Automate channel rewards and analyze data for personalized offers with Rebate Management software.
- Derive insights from AI. AI unlocks insights for manufacturing. Create personalized communications and call summaries with Salesforce AI.
- Save time with automated workflows. Boost manufacturing processes and integrations with Flow of Industries automation. No-code workflows enable best practices across sales stages, saving time and simplifying it for all.
Integrate your revenue management process.
- Configure, price, and quote straight from your CRM. Streamline the entire product-to-cash process, from catalogs and pricing to CPQ, contract lifecycle management, orders, and billing with Revenue Cloud.
- Track volume sales agreements from ERP. Manufacturing Cloud for Sales tracks compliance with volume sales agreements using customer order data. When actual purchases don’t match the baseline agreement, the manufacturer can quickly engage the customer.
- Capture stakeholder forecast inputs. Work with customers on demand forecasts based on the original sales agreement’s volume requirements with Manufacturing Cloud for Sales. Feed modified forecast updates into the sales and operations process to help manage inventory.
- Create, view, and manage orders. Bring commerce and order management processes on one platform. Customers and channel partners can create, view, and manage orders, check fulfillment status, and dynamically route orders to optimize costs and rates.
Complete your Modernize Commercial Operations solution with these products.
Manufacturing Cloud for Sales
Manage your entire book of business on a single platform. View opportunities, run-rate agreements, demand forecasts, and projects.
Rebate Management
Build, manage, and analyze channel incentive management to drive channel sales and loyalty.
Revenue Cloud
A revenue management platform that helps automate the product-to-cash journey.
Commerce Cloud
Unlock self-service revenue channels, connect buyer touchpoints, and launch personalized experiences.
Manufacturing Intelligence
Deliver actionable insights throughout the entire sales and revenue cycle.
Slack
Connect your manufacturing value chain in a single, collaborative workspace.
MuleSoft AnyPoint
Instantly connect a growing list of manufacturing applications and data with speed and scale.
Build the perfect manufacturing operations management solution with our help.
Get in touch today and our experts will guide you through the process, step by step:
- Choose the right Manufacturing Cloud edition
- Add products/features needed, if not already included
- Customize the final result with apps, services, support
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Ueli StrickerDirector of Supply Chain, Swissbit
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Modernize Commercial Operations FAQ
Manufacturing Commercial Operations allow manufacturers to integrate sales and revenue management to elevate performance and reduce revenue leakage. With revenue management software, you can unify sales, finance, and legal on one platform for more efficient revenue lifecycle management.
With manufacturing sales operations software, you can elevate sales performance and minimize revenue leakage with a more predictable run-rate business, a collaborative forecasts process, and a complete view of new business opportunities, customer agreements, long-term projects, and programs.
Streamline your product-to-cash cycle with automation, including product catalogs, pricing, configuration, quoting, order management, fulfillment, billing, and contracts. Accelerate growth through flexible revenue models and reduce operational costs by automating policies, controls, and processes.
Modernize Commercial Operations is a solution to manage your complete book of business on a single platform from opportunity through order management. Get sales and operations alignment for accurate demand forecasting and collaborative, workflow-enabled selling processes with actionable AI insights.
Modernizing how a business generates and captures revenue requires unifying all customer data and business processes on a CRM system that can serve as a single source of truth across the business and help reduce margin erosion, revenue leakage, and lost profits.
Modernizing your sales process with manufacturing operations management software not only improves seller productivity and performance but sets you up to better manage the order-to-cash and revenue management processes in the next phase. This foundation reduces revenue and margin leakage in the selling process.
Start by asking where you need to prioritize your resources to solve your biggest pain points. It may be creating a unified view of the customer, cleaning your data to get the most use out of AI, reducing revenue and margin leakage, increasing demand forecast accuracy, or improving sales productivity.
