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Identifying Secondary
Facilities For Each
Target Prospect &
Customer.
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Identifying Key Contacts
At Secondary Location.
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Transferring Location &
Contact Information Into
An Account Map.
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Contacting Secondary
Location Prior To Making
A Call To The Key
Decision Maker At The
Headquarter Location To:
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Quality the Account.
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Uncover Needs & Pain
Points.
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Test Potential
Solution.
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Verify Key Decision
Maker.
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Determine Budget.
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Identify Decision
Making Process.
Steps for Mapping Accounts :
You
want to map your Asset
accounts and your
Liabilities accounts for
Budgets and Forecasting.For this feature to work
properly, you must have a
Provisions account set up in
your core system.
Account mapping
to Uncover
Potential Opportunities
Imagine if you were given
the task of creating a map
for a country. The map must
contain physical details
such as mountains and
rivers, points of interest
including historical sites,
and travel aids such as
hotels and roads. Time and
resources are limited. You
have nothing with which to
start other than the earth
in front of you and a
notepad. Now you need to
collect the information.
What do you do? One option
is that you can research,
visit/observe, and report
your experiences on each of
the areas. Alternatively,
you can ask different people
living in the country and
gather the information from
them. Unless time and
resources are unlimited, in
almost all cases it is
better to collect the
information from the
inhabitants of the country.
Account
mapping
takes the
same approach. The time
spent gaining information
through asking questions
with people working is a
company is well spent. The
more you can tap into the
company knowledge of the
people within a company, the
better chance that you will
create a useful picture of
the needs, desires, and
issues for the targeted
company. As an added
benefit, you may create some
good relationships along the
way which may help you when
you uncover an opportunity
for which you have a
solution!
Account
mapping
is the
process of information
gathering at a company. The
company could be either a
current customer or a
prospect. Just like our
experience of creating a map
for a country, creating a
customer map can be
difficult but ultimately
worth the time investment.
It is a process which
requires:
1. Finding the appropriate
people to interview 2.
Asking the right questions
3. Compiling the different
pieces of information into
an understandable, useable
plan. Each of these three
steps is critical for the
ultimate success of creating
an account map. Time –
The final frontier
Planning – While the
activity of account planning
is a good one, there is an
issue of time. Time is the
most valuable resource for
developing customers.
Therefore, try to limit the
time spent on account plans
to a day or two early in the
year and only a weekly
meeting to update the plan
and to tactically carry out
the actions of the plan. Use
your valuable time with the
customer and collecting more
and for the the weekly
meetings.
Many of our clients face
difficulties in ramping up
their accounts beyond the
initial deal. It might be
due to several reasons which
include lack of trust by
customers in clients
understanding of their
pain-points, our clients
inability to understand the
business issues of the
customer and how technology
can further them, our
clients inability to
understand the business and
technology value chain of
the customer, etc. This
needs an in depth
understanding of the
customers business, its
environment, its technology
requirements and where our
clients can pitch in with
business solutions.
Our
Account
mapping
offering
provides this facility to
our customers. It is akin to
our Sales Intelligence
offering, but focused
specifically on growing an
account so, the Organization
is explored in depth in this
case. It acts as a polestar
to our clients to guide
their account management
efforts.
We also would be sharing our
proprietary framework to our
clients which they can use
for their other accounts as
well for
Account
mapping.
The State of Connecticut
will use an
Account
mapping
process within the Core-CT
PeopleSoft HRMS system to
map certain earnings,
deductions, and taxes to
expenditure accounts as
defined by the requirements
gathering of the Core-CT
Financials team. Due to the
fixed criteria defined by
the State of Connecticut for
distributing its payroll
expenditures, the
Account
mapping
process will allow
for a standard and less
complex payroll distribution
process that will be easily
understandable and
maintainable now and in
future years.
Funding sources for all
payroll expenditures will be
made up of chart field
combinations, which will
then be stored in the
Core-CT HRMS system as
account codes. One component
of the account code is the
Account chart field. Core-CT
HRMS has been configured to
have each position tied to
at least one account code,
which will be used to fund
any payroll expenditures
associated with that
position. Every account code
that will be used in the
HRMS system will have a
default
value defined for
the Account chart field. This
configuration of the account
codes will ultimately reduce
the burden Agencies will
have to bear when choosing
the proper funding source
for each position, as it can
be assumed that the Core-CT HRMS system will always map
the correct account to the
assigned account code based
on the Account Mapping rules
that will be discussed in
this document.
This document will detail
the
Account
mapping
process
for earnings, deductions,
and taxes. As accounts are
added or deleted from the
overall account structure,
updates will need to be made
to the configuration to
properly reflect the State
of Connecticut’s business
needs for payroll
expenditure distribution.
Deductions:
Fringe benefits provided by
the State of Connecticut
will be distributed to the
same account code / funding
source as an employee’s
earnings unless otherwise
overridden in the payroll
process. As a way to
differentiate each class of
deduction from other
deductions and from earning
payments, the Account
Mapping functionality will
again be utilized. See
Appendix 3 for a complete
listing of deduction codes
that map to a specific
account
•
Group Life Insurance –
Account 50410
• Medical / Dental Insurance
– Account 50420
• Unemployment Compensation
– Account 50430
• Retirement – Account 50470
o SERS – Account 50471
o ARP – Account 50472
o Teacher’s Retirement System – Account 50473
o Judges & Comp Commissioners – Account 50474
o Other Statutory – Account 50475
• Employee Death Benefits –
Account 50500
• Buy Back Option – Account
50510
Taxes:
Taxes
will follow the same process
of mapping an account to the
account code / funding
source as the earnings and
deduction mapping. Only
employer paid taxes will be
included in the distribution
of funds.
• Social Security – Account 50440
o FICA / OASDI (ER)
– Account 50441
o FICA / MED (ER) –
Account 50442 |