Planning Forecasting and Budgeting Updated (1)
Planning Forecasting and Budgeting Updated (1)
Forecasting and
Budgeting
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Planning, Sales Forecasting and
Budgeting
At the end of this module, the learning outcomes are:
• Appreciate the role of strategic planning, marketing strategy and
marketing management
• To study the relationship between marketing strategy and sales
strategy.
• To understand the importance and concepts of sales forecasting.
• To understand the role and importance of sales budget.
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Budgeting
Suggested Readings:
• Sales and Distribution Management by Havaldar and Cavale, 3rd
edition, Chapter 3.
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Strategic Planning
• Relates to the organization’s long-term objectives and strategies.
• Long-term orientation.
• Happens at three levels.
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Planning In A Large
Organisation
Organisational Organisation Structure Type of
Levels Planning
Functional /
Product Product Product Product Operational
‘x’ ‘y’ ‘z’ Planning
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Planning In A Large
Organisation
• Promotion
• Sales Strategy
• Hires Sales personnel
• For every geographical region of India
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Role of Marketing in
Organisational Planning
Type of Role of Marketing – Key Tasks Formal
Planning Name
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Marketing Strategy
• Marketing Objectives
• Segmentation
• Target Market
• Positioning
• Marketing Mix
• Promotion
• Sales
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Marketing and Sales
Strategies
• Figure below shows how sales strategy is developed from marketing
strategy Sales promotion
strategy
Product /
service
strategy
Target
Advertising
market
strategy
strategy
(Long- Promotion /
term) IMC* strategy
Marketing
Personal selling / sales
Strategy
strategy
Price
Marketing strategy
mix strategy
(Short-term)
Public relations & Publicity
strategy
Distribution
strategy
Direct marketing
strategy
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Relationship strategy
• Level of relationship would depend on the profit potential from the
customer.
• Will vary from transactional to collaborative.
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Relationship strategy
• Classifying market segments and individual customers within a target
segment
• All customers are not equal
• 80/20 rule
• 20% of the customers provide 80% of the profit.
• Sales personnel provide differential treatment to customers based on
their profit potential.
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Budgeting
Selling Methods
• Will depend on the type of customer and stages of the buying
process.
• Purpose is to create awareness or get repeat orders.
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Budgeting
Channel Strategy
• Use of direct versus indirect channel.
• Whether customers will be handled by own sales force, outside sales
force or middlemen.
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Sales Forecasting
• Critical input for the entire organization.
• Determines revenues, costing
• Fix plant capacities
• Human resources planning.
• Stakeholders constantly monitor this parameter.
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Budgeting
Market (or industry) forecast (or market size)
• is the expected market (or industry) demand at one level of industry
marketing expenditure
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Budgeting
Company demand
• is the company’s estimated share of market demand for a product or
service at alternative levels of the company marketing efforts (or
expenditures) in a specific time period
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Sales budget
• is the estimate of expected sales volume in units or revenues from the
company’s products and services, and the selling expenses.
• It is set slightly lower than the company sales forecast, to avoid
excessive risks
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Budgeting
Forecasting Approaches
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Top-down or Break-down approach
• Based on macro environmental factors
• Estimate industry trends
• Fortunes of the overall industry
• Calculate company sales potential = market potential x company
share
• Decide company sales forecast (lower than company sales potential
because sales potential is maximum estimated sales, without any
constraints)
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Bottom-up or Build-up approach
• Starts at the lowest hierarchical level.
• Ask sales personnel to provide forecast.
• Area / Branch managers combine sales forecasts received from
salespersons
• Regional / Zonal managers combine sales forecasts received from area
/ branch managers
• Sales / marketing head combines sales forecasts received from
regional / zonal managers into company sales forecast, which is
presented to CEO for discussion and approval
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Budgeting
• Tea versus Electric Cars vs Green Energy
• Govt policies
• Charging stations network
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Sales Forecasting
Methods
Qualitative Methods Quantitative Methods
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Delphi Method
• Based on opinion of the experts
• Each expert has its own opinion.
• Listen to opinion of other experts
• Revised opinion.
• Advantages: objective, good accuracy
• Disadvantages: getting experts, no breakdown into subunits, time
required: medium (3/4 weeks) to long (2/3 months)
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Salesforce composite
• Sales personnel estimate future sales in their respective areas.
• Collated and consolidated at each level.
• Advantages: Salespeople are involved, breakdown into subunits
possible
• Disadvantages: Optimistic or pessimistic forecasts, medium to long
time required
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Survey of buyers’ intentions
• Procedure involves asking customers about their intentions to buy the
company’s products and services.
• Appropriate for high value and low volume products.
• Advantages: gives more market information, can forecast new and
existing products, good accuracy.
• Disadvantages: some buyers’ unwilling to respond, time required is
long (3-6 months), medium to high cost
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• Boeing Aircraft sales for the FY 22 23 in India
• Airlines
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• How much are they likely to buy
• Aircraft is 300 Crores
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Budgeting
Test Marketing
• Methods used for consumer market testing: full blown, controlled,
and simulated test marketing
• Methods used for business market testing: alpha and beta testing
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Quantitative Methods
• Moving averages
• Based on past data
• Procedure is to calculate the average company sales for previous years
• Moving averages name is due to dropping sales in the oldest period and
replacing it by sales in the newest period
• Advantages: simple and easy to calculate, low cost, less time, good
accuracy for short term and stable conditions
• Disadvantages: can not predict downturn / upturn, not used for unstable
market conditions and long-term forecasts
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Exponential Smoothing method
• The forecaster allows sales in certain periods to influence the sales forecast
more than sales in other periods
• Equation used:
Sales forecast for next period=(L)(actual sales of this year)+(1-L)(this year’s
sales forecast), where (L) is a smoothing constant, ranging greater than zero
and less than 1
• Advantages: simple method, forecaster’s knowledge used, low cost, less
time, good accuracy for short term forecast
• Disadvantages: smoothing constant is arbitrary, not used for long-term and
new product forecast
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Decomposition Method
• Process includes breaking down the company’s previous periods’
sales data into components like trend, cycle, seasonal, and erratic
events. These components are recombined to produce sales forecast
• Advantages: Conceptually sound, fair to good accuracy, low cost, less
time
• Disadvantages: complex statistical method, historical data needed,
used for short-term forecasting only
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Naive / Ratio Method
• Assumes: what happened in the immediate past will happen in
immediate future
• Simple formula used.
• Advantages: simple to calculate, low cost, less time, accuracy good
for short-term forecasting
• Disadvantages: less accurate if past sales fluctuate.
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Regression Analysis method
• It is a statistical forecasting method
• Process consists of identifying causal relationship between company
sales (dependent variable, y) and independent variable (x), which
influences sales
• If one independent variable is used, it is called linear (or simple)
regression, using formula; y=a+bx, where ‘a’ is the intercept and ‘b’ is
the slope of the trend line
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Regression Analysis method
• In practice, company sales are influenced by several independent
variables, like price, population, promotional expenditure. The
method used is multiple regression analysis.
• Advantages: Objective, good accuracy, predicts upturn / downturn,
short to medium time, low to medium cost
• Disadvantages: technically complex, large historical data needed,
software packages essential
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Econometric Analysis Method
• Procedure includes developing many regression equations
representing (i) relationships between sales and independent
variables which influence sales, and (ii) interrelationships between
variables. Forecast is prepared by solving these equations
• Computers and software packages are used
• Advantages: Good accuracy of forecasts of economic conditions and
industry sales
• Disadvantages: need expertise & large historical data, medium to
long time, medium to high cost
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• Sale of Diesel Cars for the next 5 years in India
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How sales personnel improve forecasting?
• Do not rely on one method.
• All methods will not be suitable.
• A range of sales forecast is developed.
• Use of technology aided tools is on the rise.
• Interpretation of sales personnel is critical.
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Sales Budget
• It is an estimate of sales volume and selling expenses.
• Company sales forecast is the critical input for the same.
• generally slightly lower than the company sales forecast, to avoid
excessive risks.
• Estimate of various expenses.
• Detailed break up of revenue and expenditure.
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Sales Budgeting methods
• Percentage of Sales method.
• Executive judgement method.
• Objective and task method
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Tesla
• Electric Cars
• Concept
• Charging stations
• Test Drive
• Explain/training involved
Objective and Task method
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Honda Cars
• Plan to sell 3 lac cars next year.
• Planning to launch 3 SUVs in 25 26
• SUV
• Existing cars
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