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 Account Manager Targets is a feature of Manufacturing Cloud that allows you to set up and manage sales goals and track performance for your account managers and their teams. To use this feature, you need to enable it in Setup and define some settings that affect how targets are created, assigned, and distributed. The three options that can be defined by an admin in the Setup area in Account Manager Targets are:

Target Measure Type: This is the unit of measurement for the targets, such as revenue, volume, or any custom measure. You can define up to three target measure types for your org and assign them to different target types. For example, you can have a target type for revenue and another one for volume, and use different target measure types for each one.

Team Member Hierarchy: This is the hierarchy that determines how targets are rolled up from individual account managers to their managers and so on. You can use the standard User Role hierarchy or a custom hierarchy based on a custom object. The hierarchy affects how targets are distributed, aggregated, and reported.

Distribution Frequency: This is the frequency at which targets are distributed from parent targets to child targets. You can choose from monthly, quarterly, or yearly distribution. The distribution frequency affects how targets are calculated and displayed for different time periods.

References: Account Manager Targets in Manufacturing Cloud | Salesforce Trailhead Module, Enable Account Manager Targets - Salesforce, Define Account Forecast Settings Unit | Salesforce Trailhead Module

 Rebate Management allows businesses to create and manage rebate programs that reward their partners for meeting sales targets. A rebate program consists of a rebate type, which defines the incentive structure, and a rebate agreement, which specifies the eligible partners and products. A rebate type benefit is a component of a rebate type that defines the thresholds of an incentive and how payouts are scaled for varying quantities and amounts. A benefit tier is a subcomponent of a rebate type benefit that specifies a range of sales targets and applicable benefit values. The minimum and maximum range values of a benefit tier must be positive integers and must not overlap with other benefit tiers in the same benefit. Therefore, the sequence of 0 to 100 is valid, while the other sequences are not. References: Rebate Management, Create and Manage Rebate Programs, Rebate Management Workflow

 The admin at badger power can set up an eligibility criteria for this rebate type with activity Date >= Jan1 and <= Jan31. This option allows the admin to specify the date range for which the rebate type applies to the transactions. The other options are either not possible or not sufficient to achieve the desired result. For example, setting up a new rebate program with a single payout period for Jan does not ensure that the rebate type is valid only for transactions completed in January. Setting the rebate type to active on Jan1 and inactive on Jan31 does not prevent the rebate type from being applied to transactions that occurred before or after January. Using the effective date on rebate type does not specify the end date for the rebate type validity. References: Eligible and Applied Rebate Types on a Transactional Object, Common Rebate Types

To forecast at the product hierarchy level, the system administrator needs to create a flow that modifies the Advanced Account Forecasting to include the product category as a custom dimension. The product category is a field on the product object that defines the hierarchy of products. By adding the product category as a custom dimension, the system administrator can enable the regional sales manager to view and adjust forecasts based on different product categories. The flow should use the Data Processing Engine to aggregate data from orders, opportunities, sales agreements, and other custom objects by product category, and then use the Calculate Advanced Account Forecast and Update Advanced Account Forecast Set Partner invocable actions to generate the forecasts. The flow should also assign the appropriate forecast set to the regional sales manager based on their role and region. References: Create Holistic Forecasts with Advanced Account Forecasting, Example: Generate Forecasts Across Multiple Regions with Advanced Account Forecasting, Calculate Account Forecasts Using Flows