nGen Sales Features
Eliminate Manual Compensation Management
Easily design, create and manage your complex compensation plans. The user interface allows the creation of modular, re-usable elements in the building of compensation plans. The Compensation module has the following features:
- Hierarchy and Participation Management
- Territories
- Titles
- Custom Periods
- Customers and Custom Groups
- Products
- Formulas
- Quotas
- Rules
- Tiers
- Rate and Grid Tables
Compensation Forecasting, Analysis and "What if" Payout Viewing
Easily design and review plans before they are implemented. nGen Sales Compensation has the ability create plans in a 'Model' environment before releasing them into 'Production'. Now you can see your plans, make changes, view participant payouts before releasing to the field. Compare two plans for differences, pay elements, participant payouts or run past, present or historical transactions and see 'real time' calculated results. Take control of your compensation plans instead of letting them control you.
Communication
nGen Sales Compensation has a simple, configurable, security based dashboard. The dashboard allows field personnel and sales management to view all of the information in one place. This includes all related reports (monthly pay statements, details of transactions, etc). The dashboard allows sales reps and managers to view their year-to-date sales, quotas, and transactions. From the dashboard, users can also access a roles based 'workflow inbox' and the Sales and Total Compensation 'what if' areas. The communication tools give field reps the power to drive sales.
Sales Representative and Sales Manager Compensation 'What if'
Why should the Sales team wait and wonder what their payouts can be? The nGen Sales Compensation module provides two views of sales compensation in real time placing the power to motivate in your hands:
- Query the system with potential orders and pipeline information to view potential payouts
- View total potential payouts for bonus, performance awards, MBO's and other variable compensation factors with easy to use 'sliders'.
With nGen Sales, teams can see quickly and easily how they can maximize their payment, and you can drive your enterprise with Total Pay-For-Performance.
Integrated Workflow
Because many people are involved in the process of compensation, workflow management between the Field, Management, Operations, HR and Executives is critical. Our integrated workflow is designed to work with the entire nGen software suite: Sales, Bonus and Salary modules. The base functionality allows for easy setup and maintenance of custom approval hierarchies, groups, email notifications, status, escalation, file attachments and other custom functions. nGen Sales also has built in features for managing Sales Disputes, Document approvals, and HR actions all combined with an easy to use workflow that integrates with overall audibility and reporting, so Sarbanes Oxley can be easily managed.
Reporting
The most important reports are often those that teams have to generate manually. nGen Sales offers three mechanisms to report data:
- Automatically Generate and Schedule Reports: nGen Sales Reporting includes standard templates for monthly pay statements, total compensation, budget allocation, pool distribution, etc.
- Create Ad Hoc Reports: The nGen Sales Ad Hoc interface allows the user to create criteria, filters, organize columns and save custom reports.
- Analyze Your Data: 'Drill In' to see data in many different ways with nGen Sales analysis tools. Additionally, analyzed data can be exported to XLS, XML, CSV and PDF.
Now you have the power to search, report and communicate accurate data easily.
Rules Engine Scalability
Do you have hundreds or thousands of compensation plans, rules, elements, rate tables? Do you have millions or hundreds of million of sales transactions a night? Not to worry, nGen Sales technology will scale with your business and all for the same price, there are no hidden fees. The nGen Sales rules engine has modular functionality that allows for scheduled processing or full processing 'real time'. We also provide the capability to turn off 'stages' of compensation that your company may not require, further reducing the processing time. We give you the power to grow your business without worrying about how you are going to calculate millions of transactions a day.
Application Security and Roles
Your complex organization demands that security is controlled and role specific. The entire nGen Software suite utilizes the ability to create roles and groups to limit the ability of users to view, edit, update and print the data. The system utilizes a simple set of user interfaces to grant or revoke access to dashboards, workflow, compensation plan administration as well as the modules of Sales, Bonus and Salary.