Anywhere/Anytime Access to Fact-Based Insights

The industry’s leading Web solution, Sales Management Planner maximizes productivity and business intelligence through a workflow process that quickly and easily directs you to integrated scorecards, KPIs, alerts, and insight-based reports. Topline results, marketplace exceptions and in-depth analyses work together to support your organization’s decision process.

Sales Management Planner is part of the industry’s leading portal, ACNielsen Answers™. ACNielsen Answers offers your organization numerous capabilities including news alerts, news feeds, collaborative web services with your ACNielsen account team, and a file upload/download area for sharing best demonstrated practices presentations, analyses and other information.

Sales Management Planner gives you:

• KPIs/Scorecards—on-line access to key performance benchmarks used to measure your business performance—by key product lines for Total U.S. or for specific regions and key accounts.
• Alerts—automatic alerts built into the system inform you of marketplace changes for your key competitors including share, volume and price changes.
• Insight Reports—detailed insights for a more comprehensive understanding of your products and competitive product performance in each of your accounts. With combined insights from your Homescan® Consumer Panel, Retail Measurement,Account Planner and ACNielsen Strategic Planner™ data sources, these analyses are critical to your strategic market planning.
• ACNielsen Answers—the industry’s leading portal gives you news alerts, news feeds and collaborative web services with your ACNielsen client service team, including a common file upload/download repository for sharing files and presentations.

Sales Management Planner helps you to:

• Benefit from an integrated workflow process, which directs you to the right information.
• Quickly and easily assess the state of your business with scorecards and KPIs.
• Automatically inform users of significant marketplace deviations including changes in volume, share, distribution, price, and promotion with exception-based alerts.
• Configurable capabilities to meet your individual preferences—select KPIs, specify alert thresholds and define the content you want to subscribe to.