ProjectManagement based on SAP Business One > Customer Relationship Management > Opportunity Management

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Enables companies to maintain and analyze open and closed sales opportunities. Supports a sales opportunity analysis with the following factors to answer the various questions posed by sales employees or the sales manager:

 

  1. Displays the sales opportunities for a customer or for a customer group.
  2. Displays the sales opportunities for an item or for an item group.
  3. Displays the sales opportunities for a sales employee.


The following business goals and objectives can be achieved through the implementation of these processes:


Opportunity Management
OpportunitiesSAP Component or Feature Available

Records every sales opportunity, from the first phone call to the successful close. Enables users to enter various details for an opportunity, including the source, potential, closing date, competitors, activities, and more. Enables relevant quotations to be linked with the opportunity to simplify tracking and analysis.

To fully utilize this functionality, the following products should be evaluated

  • SAP Business One
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    Opportunity Analysis ReportsSAP Component or Feature Available

    Provides several reports for monitoring and analysis of the company's Sales Opportunities. The reports can be filtered according to specific criteria such as business partners or sales stages.

    Forecast Report - presents a projection of the potential Sales Opportunities, based on the predicted dates of all open opportunities. The information presented is useful for planning and prioritizing.

    Forecast Over Time Report- presents a forecast of the open and closed Opportunities grouped according to a selected time period. Totals of the number of won and lost Opportunities are displayed. In addition, totals of closed Opportunities are presented.

    Statistics Report - presents the number of open and closed Opportunities. The data can be sorted to display according to various combinations of options and groupings.

    Opportunities Report- provides a summary, in a table format, of all the Sales Opportunities. Specific parameters can be chosen to filter the display according to the required options.

    Stage Analysis-  provides an overview of the success rate of the sales activities. It contains information on how many closed sales opportunities were concluded in a specific stage, or for how long sales opportunities remained in each stage of the sales process.

    Source Distribution Over Time Report-  presents Sales Opportunities according to their source, and can be grouped to display in specific time periods such as days, weeks or months.

    Won Opportunities Report-  provides information about the Sales Opportunities that have succeeded, displaying the days required for closing, the number of won opportunities and the total  income to be received for these opportunities.

    Lost Opportunities Report-   use this report to analyze the Sales Opportunities that were not successful. This report can be filtered according to various criteria such as business partner, territory, and so on.

    My Open/Closed Sales Opportunities Reports -  these reports have no selection criteria and display the open/closed sales opportunities related to the user who is currently logged on SAP Business One.  

    To fully utilize this functionality, the following products should be evaluated

  • SAP Business One
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    Opportunities PipelineSAP Component or Feature Available

    This report is used for analysis of the open Opportunities in the sales pipeline. From this report it is possible to identify the number of open opportunities at each stage of all open Opportunities.

    The list of Sales Opportunities at each stage can be displayed in a row of the table or as a segment in the graphic. 

    The Opportunities Pipeline can also be displayed in a dynamic graph format. This dynamic graph displays both open and closed Sales Opportunities. 

    To fully utilize this functionality, the following products should be evaluated

  • SAP Business One
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    Opportunity Link to Preliminary ProjectPartner Product Available
    A preliminary project can be created from an existing opportunity in order to carry out a precalculation.
     
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