| Version | Date | Description | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| v.1 | 30.03.2017 | Creation | Jeremie Seabra |
Accounts are Solvay’s customers, partners and distributors.
Each account stores information such as a name, address, phone numbers and customer attributes.
For each account, you can link information such as opportunities, activities, cases, visit reports, notes and attachments.
| Types of Accounts | Definition |
|---|---|
| Corporate Group | Account specifically created for grouping accounts under one parent. Corporate Group is not interfaced with SAP |
Prospect | Solvay's potential customers (sold-to or ship-to), not yet recorded in SAP |
| Indirect Customer | Customer Solvay is not directly doing business with, but is buying Solvay's products |
| Non-Buying Entity | Account not buying products to Solvay, but in relationship with Solvay (i.e. Corporate Centers, Research Centers, Universities, Laboratories, etc.) |
| Ship-to | SAP customer to whom Solvay is shipping the products |
| Sold-to & Ship-to | SAP customer to whom Solvay is selling and shipping the products |
| Key Account | Current or potential account who represents a major & strategic part of Solvay's growth potential and contribution, with an important marketing stake for Solvay. |

Each Account in Salesforce must have one and only one “Account Owner”. This rule is in place differently depending if the account is a customer or a prospect:

Consequences
After conversion, the Account Owner becomes an Account Team member.
Roles & Responsibilities
The Account Owner is in charge of the maintenance of his accounts. He keeps the related data up to date and maintains the account team upon request from other BU's/GBU's

In this scenario, when checking the request, assumption is that the request is valid and no duplicate account is found. Next scenario covers the situation when a duplicate account is identified.
Note: If the prospect created already exists as an account in SFDC, the “merge” operation will be done by IS Support Team.





Note: typical use case: A dummy account is created by mistake by a user confusing Test and prod environments
Following information are transferred through the interfaces between Salesforce and SAP
API : customer creation request from Salesforce
Salesforce account ID
Account Owner
Account Name
Address (street, zip/postal code, city, country)
Address (local language) (street, zip/postal code, city, country, language key)
Customer Service Representative Name
Customer Service Representative Email address
Account Partner Type (sold-to, ship-to or sold-to & ship-to)
If ship-to à take the Salesforce account ID of the sold-to account defined in the relationship (in order to create the relationship ship-to/sold-to in SAP)
API C: customer creation order from SAP
Salesforce ID
PRS ID
RCS ID
Account Name
Address (street, zip/postal code, city, country)
Address (local language) (street, zip/postal code, city, country, language key)
Account Partner Type (sold-to, ship-to or sold-to & ship-to)
Account Status ( = Validated)
API D: customer update order from SAP
Salesforce ID
PRS ID
RCS ID
Account Name
Address (street, zip/postal code, city, country)
Address (local language) (street, zip/postal code, city, country, language key)
Account Partner Type (sold-to, ship-to or sold-to & ship-to)
Flag for deletion
API E: Account Status
Account Status ( = Validated)
Mail B : customer update request from SFDC (will trigger a mail that contains the following values)
Salesforce account ID
PRS ID
RCS ID (could be blank in RCS)
Requested by
Salesforce must request the user to select the appropriate CSR based on the Account team.
Update requested:
Account Name
Address (street, zip/postal code, city, country)
Address (local language) (street, zip/postal code, city, country, language key)
Relationship (between a sold-to and a ship-to)
Flag for deletion
Mail F : additional information requested at customer creation in Salesforce
Account Information
Salesforce ID
Additional information on the Sold-to:
VAT Number
End-Use
Application
Contact (lookup to select an existing contact)
If the Sold-to account is also a Ship-to account, additional information :
Shipping Conditions
Full/Partial Loads
Delivery Hours
Incoterm 1
Incoterm 2
If the Sold-to account is not a Ship-to account as well, existing ship-to account and additional information:
Ship-to Account (lookup to select an existing ship-to in Salesforce)
Shipping Conditions
Full/Partial Loads
Delivery Hours
Incoterm 1
Incoterm 2
If the Sold-to account is also a Bill-to account, following checkbox:
Checkbox
If the Sold-to account is not a Bill-to account as well, additional information:
Bill-to Name
Bill-to Address
If the Sold-to account is also a Payer account, additional information:
VAT Number
Payment terms
Currency
Payment mode
Bank Country
Bank Account Number
Bank IBAN/SWIFT
Estimated Turnover
Estimated Volume
Credit Limit Requested
If the Sold-to account is not a Payer account as well, additional information:
Payer Name
Payer Address
VAT Number
Payment terms
Currency
Payment mode
Bank Country
Bank Account Number
Bank IBAN/SWIFT
Estimated Turnover
Estimated Volume
Credit Limit Requested
1.3.1. Creation of an Account

1.3.2. Update of an account

If the sales rep is actively involved at an account, and cannot edit it, then the user should add itself to the account team using the "Manage my Account Team Role" Button.
1.3.3. Corporate Group Creation
1.3.4. Transfer of Account Ownership

Figure 12: Transfer of Ownership Process

Action | All Sales Users | Account Owner / GBU Data Steward and hierarchical above | Account Team Member with Read/Write access and hierarchical above |
|---|---|---|---|
View | yes * | yes | yes |
Create | yes | yes | yes |
Request Conversion / Update | no | yes | yes |
Edit | no | yes | yes |
Delete | no | no | no |
* Confidential accounts can only be seen by Owner and Account Team members
After creating a new Prospect, the user can request its conversion by clicking on the "Convert Prospect to Customer" button. This will launch a wizard asking the user to complete information needed for the Customer's creation. This button is only available on Prospects.
Users can request the customer to fill the following template, in order to request all needed information to convert the prospect into a customer : Customer Creation and Modification Form.
Any Salesforce user can add it self to an account team by clicking on the "Manage my Account Team Role" button. The user will be prompted to select the role that best describes its relation with this account : Account Manager, Key Account Manager, Customer Service Representative, Sales Support, Business Development, Technical Marketing, Global Key Account Manager, Research & Innovation, Strategic Marketing. This button is available on Prospects and SAP Customers.
This buttons allows users to check some key information related to the selected account in order to prepare visits to the client.This button is available on Prospects and SAP Customers.
If a user identifies some out of date information, it may request to update the account information by clicking on the "Customer Update Request" button, and by filling the information that is out of date. This button is only available on SAP Customers.
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