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Using Sales Planning Autopilot

The Sales Planning Autopilot is an internal tool that allows you to create new planning cycles efficiently. The tool sits outside of the native Sales Planning application but provides you a step-by-step chronological workflow on steps to take to create a new planning cycle. In addition to allowing users to upload standard files, it also allows users to upload battle-card structures, territory group type structure and territory group structures that cannot be done within the Sales Planning application.

Warning

The Autopilot tool is available only to internal users and is not permitted for customers and partners.

Note

Autopilot is used for creating net new planning cycles only and not for modifying existing planning cycles.

Video walkthrough of Autopilot

Accessing Autopilot

You can access Autopilot using this URL.

Sample files

You can view sample files here for each part of the autopilot workflow to get an idea of how to format your files.

Setting up Autopilot

To set up Autopilot:

  1. In the Sales Planning application, create a new planning cycle. Follow all the step outlined for creating planning cycles.

  2. Open up a new browser and enter the URL of the environment that you would like to access.

  3. On the Sales Planning Autopliot page, select a Region. The region is the environment (for example, development, staging etc.) that you would like to work in to set up your new planning cycle.

  4. Enter a token. To get your token:

    1. Go back to the Sales Planning application.

    2. Open up your newly created planning cycle.

    3. Right click and select Inspect element.

    4. On the title bar of the inspect element page, click Screenshot_2025-04-22_at_9_58_10_PM.png to open up the more options menu. Select Application.

    5. On the left panel, navigate to the Storage section, expand the Local storage option, and ensure the URL is selected.

    6. In the rightmost panel, under Value, click on the body element.

    7. In the bottom panel, expand on the body element, find the access_token element, and right-click and copy the value.

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    8. Return to the Sales Planning Autopilot page and paste this token in the Token section.

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  5. Enter your Organization name. This is the name of your tenant.

    Note

    The value you input for this field is not case sensitive.

  6. Next, enter the name of the newly created planning cycle.

  7. Click Sign in.

Creating planning cycle structures

The following table includes all the steps in chronological order that you need to complete to set up your new planning cycle.

Warning

You can only advance to the next level if there are no errors in the submitted file.

Table 16. Planning cycle components

Step

Notes

Skip options

Battlecard Structure

  1. There is an existing defect that does not allow ownerID uploads. Please leave that column blank for now.

  2. Type can be: "Primary Team", "Roll-up", "Direct Overlay"

No

Battlecard Territory Group Types

Precedence is the order of the territory group type that, similar to how it is set in the UI.

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No

Quota Components

Default option will be removed if quota components are explicitly named.

Yes

QC Assignments

Yes

Territory Groups

No

Customer Account Hierarchy

Any columns outside of the mandatory columns are not supported via import through Autopilot (ex. Effective dates, custom fields)

Yes

Geo Hierarchy

See Geography Hierarchy catalog in drive to know how to set this up or skip and go directly go through the Sales Planning application.

  1. Search for a country.

  2. Search for a hierarchy type (name column in the catalog). this would be Counties for example.

  3. The combination of name and country leads to a unique row.

  4. Use the other columns of this row to fill in the required information for Type , Depth ,CountryCode

Yes

Custom Hierarchy (e.g. Product)

Yes

Territory Rules

No

Seller Assignments

Yes

Quota Sheets

Yes

QS Columns

 

Yes

QS to BC Map

Yes

QS to QC Map

Yes

Activity Files

No

Pins

Yes



Launching and resetting autopilot

Once you upload documents into the table, you can launch the script. If the script fails to run successfully, you'll need to re-upload your files and launch the script again.