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Creating a Filter
You can create stand-alone filters and add them to stand-alone rules, plan rules, or plan participant rules. You can also personalize filters at the participant level. The four types of filters that you can create are account, product, product line, and Revenue Type or LOV. LOV is a configured type.
About Filters
Filters allow organizations to create different rates of compensation for sales of specific products and product lines, or for sales to specific accounts. Filters are commonly used with national account plans or product specialist plans, or to emphasize sales of a particular product (for example, during a product introduction). Filters can be applied to rules, and when the Siebel Incentive Compensation engine evaluates transactions, only transactions that meet the criteria defined in the filter are included in compensation earnings.
For example, your sales representatives are included in a compensation plan rule that pays a bonus for selling Siebel Call Center. You set up a filter to evaluate whether or not Siebel Call Center is included in the order. If a sales representative closes a deal for 20 named users of Siebel Call Center and five named users of Siebel Marketing, the representative only gets credit for the 20 named users of Siebel Call Center because that is the only product for which the plan recognizes achievement.
Filter Types
There are four predefined filter types that you can use:
- Account. This filter is used to provide employees with an incentive to sell to specific accounts. For example, to encourage sales, the organization includes a bonus that pays an additional amount for sales to certain customers.
- Product. This filter is used to provide employees with an incentive to sell a specific product. For example, an organization is introducing a new product and, to encourage sales of the product, the organization includes a SPIFF in the compensation plan to pay an extra bonus for sales of that product during a quarter. Many products can be associated with a single product line.
- Product Line. This filter is used to provide employees with an incentive to sell a specific product line. For example, to encourage sales of products in a new product line, the organization includes a filter in the compensation plan to pay an extra bonus for sales of products in the product line.
- Revenue Type. This filter includes or excludes certain types of orders. For example, if the order is a service order (designated by Revenue Type of Service), then it may be excluded when paying compensation.
For information about creating filter types that are not preconfigured in the Incentive Compensation application, see Configuring Incentive Compensation.
Adding Filters to Rules
Filters can be combined in a rule (for example, sales of a specific product to a specific account). You can add filters to stand-alone rules, plan rules, and plan participant rules.
A single rule or hurdle can have multiple filters. The calculation engine uses a set of personalized plan rule filters.
Creating a Stand-Alone Filter
Use the following procedure to create a new stand-alone filter.
To create a stand-alone filter
- From the application-level menu, choose View > Site Map > Incentive Compensation Administration > Filters.
- In the Filters list, click New.
- In the new filter record, enter a name and description, and select the type of filter.
- In the Inclusion field, select an inclusion type.
The following table describes the types.
Creating Filter Criteria
After creating a filter, select the products, product lines, or accounts that make up the filter criteria.
To create filter criteria
- From the application-level menu, choose View > Site Map > Incentive Compensation Administration > Filters.
- In the Filters list, select the filter, and then drill down on the hyperlink in the Name field.
The filter form appears with a new filter list showing accounts, products, product lines, revenue types or any other configured types. For example, if the filter type is Product, the Filter Products list appears with the filter form.
- In the Filter (type) list, add items to the filter.
Depending on the type of filter you chose, use the procedures in the following table to enter criteria.
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Siebel Incentive Compensation Administration Guide Published: 18 April 2003 |