Territory Planning
In Salesforce Maps and Territory Management, the process of designing, modeling, and optimizing sales territories based on geography, account attributes, and workload balance to maximize coverage and sales effectiveness.
Definition
In Salesforce Maps and Territory Management, the process of designing, modeling, and optimizing sales territories based on geography, account attributes, and workload balance to maximize coverage and sales effectiveness.
In plain English
“Territory Planning in Salesforce Maps and Territory Management is the process of designing, modeling, and optimizing sales territories. You use geography, account attributes, and workload balance to maximize coverage and ensure fair distribution across your sales team.”
Worked example
Yarmouth Insurance's sales operations team runs an annual Territory Planning exercise to rebalance the 60 sales territories across the country. Using Salesforce Maps, they overlay account density, current rep workload, and regional revenue potential. Salesforce Maps suggests boundary changes - moving 14 accounts from Territory 12 (overloaded rep, low growth) to Territory 14 (under-utilized rep, high growth potential). The team models the change, sees that workload becomes balanced and projected revenue improves, and applies the changes via Territory Management updates. Without Territory Planning tools, the same exercise would happen in a spreadsheet and a print-out map, with significantly less precision.
Why Territory Planning matters
In Salesforce Maps and Territory Management, Territory Planning is the process of designing, modeling, and optimizing sales territories based on geography, account attributes, and workload balance to maximize coverage and equitable distribution. Salesforce Maps provides visualization tools for modeling territory boundaries and analyzing balance.
Territory planning is a strategic sales operations activity that directly affects sales team effectiveness. Poorly planned territories create unfair workloads, missed coverage, and rep frustration. Well-planned territories balance opportunity, workload, and geographic efficiency. Mature sales operations treat territory planning as a formal process with data-driven decisions.
How organizations use Territory Planning
Uses Salesforce Maps for data-driven territory planning with geographic visualization.
Plans territories based on workload analysis and account potential.
Treats territory planning as a formal quarterly process.
Trust & references
Straight from the source - Salesforce's reference material on Territory Planning.
- Integration with Enterprise Territory ManagementSalesforce Help
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