The Sunday Tribune, Dublin upgrade and expand IPA SalesWORKS System


The Sunday Tribune, Dublin has placed an order with IPA Systems Ltd for the upgrade of their IPA SalesWORKS system to version three.

Apart from the many enhancements version 3 has to offer, such as new multi preview text editor, advanced booking calendar, the inclusion of electronic customer record cards, direct emailing of proofs, reports from the desktop and order confirmations etc. The Sunday Tribune has also added the Sales Performance module and Analysis/Budgeting Suite.

The Sales Performance module will enable the system to be used for the following tasks:

  • Set-up targets for salespeople or teams based on various criteria and store as profiles.
  • Sales persons can check progress towards personal targets.
  • Managers can select individuals or teams and create reports showing progress towards target.
  • Calculate commission payments.
  • Include allowances/credits in the calculations.

Analysis & Budgeting Suite consists of a combination of reports and applications providing categorised volume, yield and discount figures for given weeks, financial periods or year to date compared with last years figures, with the ability to filter by publication or publication groups so that business performance can be accurately measured based on data both current and historic. Actual revenue, volume and yields are compared against budgeted targets. These targets can be set individually for each category, publication for each week in the financial year. The budget can be defined as a percentage increase or decrease on last year's figures or calculated back to a percentage from a figure that is input.

These two SalesWORKS enhancements will provide "real time" information to measure the performance of the advertising department while providing the financial knowledge required to make informed decisions. The combination of the two applications has the potential to save many hours of administration work and give top level down reports on the advertising business.

For more information please contact: sales@ipasystems.co.uk

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