Calculating Monthly Sales Goals

Use the Calculate Monthly Budgets screen to calculate budgets for multiple customers. You select the formula the system uses to calculated the budgets and select which customer budgets to calculate. You can run the calculations now or schedule them to run overnight. The system notifies you through the message system when the calculations are complete. Using this feature prevents you from having to drill down into each budget to set the monthly sales budget amounts.

To calculate monthly sales goals for a customer:

  1. From the Maintenance > Sales Budgeting menu, select Sales Budget Monthly Calculations to display the Calculate Monthly Budgets screen.

Note: If prompted, log on to the character-based system.

  1. In the Year field, enter the year for which to calculate monthly sales budgets.

  2. Do one of the following:

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calculate the monthly budget now

Begin

If prompted, select a printer and press Enter to calculate the monthly budget amounts.

schedule the calculations to run later

Opts

The Options selection list displays. Select Scheduling to display the Phantom Scheduler screen.

More Options for the Calculate Monthly Budgets Screen

The Calculate Monthly Budgets screen also offers these options:

To...

Use this hot key...

limit the calculations to certain customer budgets

Select

The Budget Queue Selection screen displays.

enter the formula to use to calculate the customer sales budget amounts

Formula

The Sales Budget Formula screen displays.

See Also:

Tasks Not Available in Solar

Monthly Sales Goals Overview

Sales Budget Processing Workflow

Monitoring Customers' Sales Budgets