Business Administration

Overview

Using the Administration (Admin) module the business administrator maintains the eCredit application by performing the following tasks:

  • Setting up Approval Authority for credit lines.

  • Maintaining Sources for Sales Channels.

  • Setting up the collateral types that credit analysts can add in the Customer Analysis module.

  • Setting up the work queue processes and tasks that appear in the Work Queue for credit analysts and sales representatives.

  • Maintaining Bank Information for issuing, advising, and confirming banks for letter of credit transactions.

  • Setting up business hierarchies of customer entities that have legal or business relationships.

  • Entering exchange rates.

  • Modifying the threshold values used by the automated decision process.

  • Adding additional information fields.

  • Modifying a selected group of drop-down lists, including the list that defines the action items that can be associated with work queue processes.

  • Selecting fields and display labels for certain eCredit screens.

  • Defining Aging Buckets that enable collectors to track the client's payment trends according to your organization's standards for aging unpaid invoices.

  • Excluding certain days from the working calendar for all collectors.

  • Configuring the key performance indicators used by the Dashboard. The Dashboard uses graphs to provide a visual representation of the collection Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for your organization.

  • Setting up collection periods to mirror your yearly fiscal calendar.  

  • Maintaining the description and default subject for templates for e-mail correspondence. You can also activate templates to make them available to users in the Automated Decisions and Customer Analysis modules.

  • Maintaining your employees as internal contacts. Internal contacts are used when setting up notification events in eCredit.

  • Setting up reports by editing report details and parameters.

  • Setting up notification events that specify the actions that are triggered when a system event occurs in eCredit for the notification type.

  • Maintaining Scorecards by adjusting the weight or default value for the scorecard and the default value, weight, or ranges for scorecard factors.

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