The AdSales-Process in MediaVelox

1 Introduction
- 1.1 AdSales - Consistent processes for your sales
- 1.2 Brief description of objects:

Introduction

MediaVelox is our Salesforce-based solution for the media industry. The solution has been developed throughout years of experience working with Salesforce projects in the industry and brings together the know-how and practice-oriented processes in one single solution.
The following documentation gives an overview of the MediaVelox and appero quote’s AdSales process.

AdSales - Consistent processes for your sales

The AdSales section contains all processes related to advertisements in all advertising channels. In addition to sales planning and actual sales process, AdSales also includes the downstream processes such as scheduling, after sales process and advertisement management.

Brief description of objects:

The following objects from the AppExchange application are relevant for the AdSales process:

Label	API_Name	Function

Label	API_Name	Function
Publication	f42_dispo__Publication__c	Displays publications (objects, titles, bookings) and also enables hierarchical assignment within the object. In addition, categories and the assignment as a digital product can also be stored as variants.
AdPosition	f42_dispo__AdPosition__c	Defines the possible placements of a single publication (e.g. U4, mm ad, Skyscraper, etc.).
Ad Format	f42_dispo__AdFormat__c	Concrete dimensions can be assigned both to the respective publication and to possible associated placements.
Ad Dimension	f42_dispo__AdDimension__c	Optional. Serves as a superordinate grouping of ad formats of different publications with the same proportionality (e.g. 1/2 page landscape).
Issue	f42_dispo__Issue__c	Allows the assignment of fixed issues (booklets) to a publication. An issue has a fixed publication date.
Ad Position Placement	f42_dispo__AdPosCatalog__c	Defines the availability (limitation for print and sale) of a placement per issue.
Product Property	sf42_quotefx__SF42_QuoProductProperty__c	Record type Product property without calculation, type Table, defines availability.
Product Group	sf42_quotefx__SF42_productGroup__c	Product groups can be assigned to the publication, the product and the product property.
Product	Product2	Salesforce Standard. In MediaVelox the product is extended by relations to placement, ad format and product groups.
Price Book	Pricebook2	Salesforce Standard. Product prices are stored in the price books.
Price Book Entry	PricebookEntry	Salesforce Standard. Product prices within a price book.
Booking	f42_dispo__DispoBook__c	Object for managing generated bookings and reservations. Dispobook entries (booking items) are generated in the sales process and reduce the availability of the higher-level placement.
Block Position Rule	f42_dispo__BlockPositions__c	Rule that specifies that a placement blocks another placement when a reservation/booking is made (e.g. because they physically occupy the same or part of the same space). Block positions are generated on the basis of this rule.
Blocked Position	f42_dispo__DispoBlockedItems__c	Available slots within a section result from blocking rules. They will be assigned to the capacity of a position. The object, as master-detail, is attached below Dispobook_c, to define additional positions running against the availability of a position option AdPosCatalog__c.
Publication Cycle	PublicationCycle__c	Optional. Defines basic publication cycles (publication days) such as daily, Monday - Friday, etc.
Company Code	SAP_CompanyCode__c	Optional. Mapping of company codes.
Sales Organisation	SAP_SalesOrg__c	Optional. Enables to group publications (objects, titles) in sales organizations (legal organizations within a publishing house).
Publication Group	MVX_PublicationGroup__c	Optional. Enables grouping of publications.
Publication Group Rule	MVX_PublicationGroupRule__c	Optional. Used to assign scale rules to a publication group; the scales can be set depending on the number of ads, pages or target sales.
Proof of Delivery	ProofofDelivery__c	Optional. Specimen copy rules enable accounts to be assigned to a booking to which specimen copies are to be sent after a publication is published. Is set as the master detail below Dispobook__c.