Life Cycle
This is a business cycle of RebateManager usage:
This is an example of a Rebate Agreement that is paid semi-annually:
Agreement
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Before the year starts:
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Agreement conditions are negotiated.
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Agreement is approved.
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During the validity of the agreement (i.e. usually a year):
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User can open the read-only agreement to see an overview of the rebate estimations and accruals.
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Rebate Record
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During the validity of the RR:
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Rebate Record is periodically recalculated to have the new rebate estimations & accruals. It uses the actual data of Transactions available to calculate the estimations & accruals. The results of those recalculations are usually presented to business users on dashboards.
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RR can create and calculate also one or more PayoutRecords, if it needs to calculate the accruals on more fine-grained level.
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After the validity:
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Rebate money amount is reviewed and approved by a business user.
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Once approved, the rebate amount is exported to an external system to be paid to the customer.
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Entity Relationship
Below is a schema that shows a broad perspective of the domain types.