By-Balasaheb
Mayuresh
Sameer
THE SEVEN STEPS OF SALES
PLANNING
1. Define a Promotional Calendar
2. Analyze/Track sales records
3. Project Sales
4. Project Results
5. Conciliate Sales and Results
6. Detail the Plan
7. Control, Evaluate, Adjust
1. Define a Promotional Calendar
Premise: Campaign aligned with Company
strategy.
1. Classify events in order of importance:
– Very Important
– Important
– Less Important
2. Define types of Campaigns:
– Main – Secondary
– One-time
– Regular
3. Define Campaign Details
– Strategy
– Duration (start and end dates)
– Investment
4. Define Desired Real Growth:
– Projected inflation
– Projected GDP growth
– Trends (Competition, Target audience, Stores reform,
Economy, other internal or external variables with
significative effect)
2. Analyze/Track sales records
• Growth over last year (same month or
event)
• Growth over last month
• Other Indicators
3. Project Sales
• Based on the previous steps, project
company’s total sale month-to-month. This
will be the first projection, or projection of
initial sales.
4. Project Results
• Project month-to-month revenues,
company total:
– Margins
– Subsidy (negotiated monthly, plus
commercial contracts)
– Working Capital result
• Project costs month-to-month, company
total:
– Fixed costs
– Variables costs
Sales projection, Revenue projection and
5. Conciliate Sales and Results
According to the monthly income
statement, adjust:
• Sales
• Revenues
• Expenses
To obtain the desired result.
6. Detail the Plan
• Detail the plan per Section, taking into account :
– Campaign Type
– Seasonality
– Trend (economy, growth, supply / market ...)
• Detail the plan per Store, Region, taking into
account :
– Share/History
– Trend (competition, target audience,
reform/rebuildment...)
• Detail the plan per Day, taking into account :
– Share of sales per week of the month, per day of
week (in history)
– Event period
– Campaign period
7. Control, Evaluate, Adjust
• Daily monitoring of total company sales by
region, by store, by section, day by day
• Weekly adjustment
• Program adjustment of the following month
based on recent record of
sales/revenues/expenses
CHASE SALES, BUT ALWAYS FOLLOWING THE
PLANNED RESULTS
Manage accordingly to the prediction of sales
achievement, adjusting revenues and
expenses to ensure the results.
Forecasting Techniques
Judgmental methods
Qualitative
Market research methods
Time series methods
Casual methods Quantitative
Sales-force composite
Panels of experts
Delphi method
Markey testing
Market survey
Moving average
Exponential smoothing
Trend analysis
Seasonality
◦ Use de-seasonalized data for forecast
◦ Forecast de-seasonalized demand
◦ Develop seasonal forecast by applying seasonal
index to base forecast
Single Regression analysis
Multiple Regression analysis
Record data in the same terms as needed for
forecast
◦ Demand vs. shipment
◦ Time interval should be the same
Record circumstances related to data
Record demand separately for different
customer groups
Quarter Demand Dt
II, 1998 8000
III, 1998 13000 Forecast demand for the
IV, 1998 23000 next four quarters.
I, 1999 34000
II, 1999 10000
III, 1999 18000
IV, 1999 23000
I, 2000 38000
II, 2000 12000
III, 2000 13000
IV, 2000 32000
I, 2001 41000
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