Manufacturing Cloud - Enhance your Production with Powerful Predictions

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Jun 14

Achieve Greater Transparency and Collaboration in Manufacturing with Manufacturing Cloud: Uniting Planning and Prediction for Manufacturers. It gives a unique level of business visibility and collaboration among the sales and services dept of a manufacturing company. Empowering Businesses with a Holistic View of Customers: Sales Agreements, Account-Based Forecasting, and Enhanced Visibility into Consumer Interactions for Robust Sales Forecasts.

The Supply Chain Ecosystem: Suppliers, Manufacturers, Distribution Channels, and Customers.

Uncover the Benefits of Manufacturing Cloud: Enhancing Business Visibility for Manufacturing Operations.

Build transparency with a unified view of all agreements.

Authentic Collaboration and Relationship Management: The Power of a Unique Source of Truth. With the Sales Agreements feature, you can build and manage sales agreements, like duration, products, prices, and planned quantities — and combine them with real quantities from your ERP. Tailor Your Account Performance Tracking: Building Custom Activities for a Unified View of Your Business' Run-Rate Performance.

Enhancing Account Transparency: Gaining Insights with a Consolidated View of Every Agreement.

Surface insights and Generate more accurate predictions.

Generate more precise predictions with a consolidated view. Leveraging Account-Based Forecasting for Unified Business Insights: Real-time Collaboration, Customized Forecast Algorithms, and Growth Acceleration for Sales, Product, and Operations Units.

Enhance forecast accuracy by leveraging a consolidated and unified view.

Understand the power of a comprehensive Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution tailored for the manufacturing industry.

Enhance the value of Service & Sales Cloud for a unified view of complete customer activity. Drive predicted business outcomes by proactively maintaining your customer relationships. Equip your account team with a comprehensive, holistic view of all your customers, providing them with real-time visibility into key sales and service activities. With collaboration tools, workflows, and AI-driven insights, your team can proactively manage and maintain the health of every account.

Maximize the Value of Sales Cloud and Service Cloud with a Unified View of Customer Activity.

Gain In-Depth Insights into a Comprehensive CRM Solution.

The landscape of the manufacturing industry has experienced a significant evolution over time. In the past, manufacturing companies simply responded to customer demands. However, it has evolved to become more customer-centric by adopting a specialized CRM solution designed for manufacturers. In the following video, we will explore how this comprehensive CRM solution for manufacturing enables companies to unify their sales, service, and marketing efforts, foster lasting customer relationships, and drive business growth.

Plan with transparent, digital collaboration.

Facilitate real-time online collaboration among customers, channel partners, and employees. AI-inspired insights are planted to provide account health, customer lifetime value, pricing performance, and so much more, so executive and account duos always have the insights they require to take powerful actions.

Accelerate planning with transparent, digital collaboration.

Einstein Analytics for Manufacturing.

Cover actionable business insights - Einstein Analytics increases the power of Manufacturing Cloud by introducing intelligent insights, forecasts, and support into your day-to-day operations. With an entirely customizable program, executives and account teams can uncover insights into sales agreement compliance, account strength, pricing, and product performance.

Account Insights > Agreements Managemnet

Surface actionable business insights.

Learn How to Accelerate Revenue Intelligence & Growth.

Efficient and informed decision-making is critical to achieving targets and expanding your business. In the 'Einstein Analytics for Manufacturing' video, discover three simple steps to boost revenue, gain insights, and foster growth in your manufacturing business.

1) Combine your ERP and legacy system data for accurate revenue insights.

2) Focus on the highest ROI opportunities.

3) Take data-driven actions that move the needle for your business.

Be aware of the real-time & Accurate view of account activity.

Leveraging the ERP connectors and templates in the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform simplifies the process of extracting order information from your ERP or order management systems. This enables you to reduce integration complexities while seamlessly integrating your back-office operations.

Ensure a real-time, accurate view of account activity.

PRICING

Acquire the best tools for your team. (To know more about prices visit here)

Enterprise - Excellent CRM for manufacturing companies. $225/month/user

Unlimited - Extensive CRM power and assistance for manufacturing companies. $375/month/user

Compare editions and top features

Editions and Top Features	$225USD/user/month	$375USD/user/month
Manufacturing Sales Data Models
Sales Agreements and Management
Custom Metric Definition and Tracking
Account-Based Accurate Forecasting
Audit Trail for Collaborative Forecasting
Custom Forecasting Fine Algorithm
24/7 Support and Configuration Services

Why prefer Manufacturing Cloud?

The manufacturing industry is experiencing a massive digital transformation. Businesses are bound to innovate so their company can succeed. To provide smooth customer experience, manufacturers need a solution that benefits them better understand customer requirements while gaining visibility over the entire value chain. The benefits of adopting Salesforce Manufacturing Cloud in an organization are endless. From the supply chain to the shop level, from distributors to customers — Manufacturing Cloud contributes a unique insight into your business and offers a chance to better connect with professionals across the value chain.

References & Resources:

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https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.sa_user_activesa_task.htm&type=5
https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.mfg_admin_parent_concept.htm&type=5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOT1F7PHuJ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swC36R-Tu0E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtpN1naxtnY
https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2019/09/16/salesforce-launches-manufacturing-cloud-aligning-sales-and-operations-to-deliver-more-transparent-and-predictable-business-outcomes/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEDeLFRGoa4
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Abhinav Gupta

First Indian Salesforce MVP, rewarded Eight times in a row, has been blogging about Salesforce, Cloud, AI, & Web3 since 2011. Founded 1st Salesforce Dreamin event in India, called “Jaipur Dev Fest”. A seasoned speaker at Dreamforce, Dreamin events, & local meets. Author of many popular GitHub repos featured in official Salesforce blogs, newsletters, and books.

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