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Process of Working with a Market Development Fund

To work with an MDF, perform the following tasks:

• Making Market Development Funds Visible to Partners. You must configure the application to make the fund visible in the partner portal.
• Creating Market Development Funds. When you create a fund, you specify how much funding it has and which partners participate in it.
• Setting Up Fund Approval Authorization. You must authorize your employees to approve fund requests. Employees have a fund request approval limit. If a request is greater than an employee's limit, that employee routes it to other employees for further review.
• Changing the Partner Manager Field. Optionally, you can change the Partner Manager field to change the routing of fund requests for approval.
• Initiating a Fund Request. After a fund has been created, employees of the partner company or from the brand owner company can request funding on behalf of partners who participate in the fund.
• Adding Attachments, Activities, and Activity Plans to MDF Requests. It can be useful to add attachments, activities, and activity plans to an MDF request.
• Reviewing a Fund Request. Your company must approve or reject funding requests. Optionally, you can use Siebel Business Process Designer to inform people by email when they must review a request or provide more information.
• Viewing a Fund's Checkbook. The MDF checkbook lets you track the amount of credits, debits, and total funds available in the a fund.