Merced Incentive Compensation Management

Merced Incentive Compensation Management provides the end-to-end ability to create, manage and distribute all aspects of a commissions program. Automating the process of commission, bonus, and incentive administration in support of any type of variable pay strategy, Merced Incentive Compensation Management offers organizations greater calculation accuracy, reduced costs for managing incentives, improved sales force and service employee motivation and retention, and ultimately a pay-for-performance system which rewards employees for achieving targets that align with business strategy.

Merced Incentive Compensation Management
- Features & Benefits

  • Singular integrated platform offering feature-rich and comprehensive incentive management functionality

  • Ease of loading and managing data enables business users to load commission event data and manage payees and hierarchy without help from IT. This helps ensure an agile organization

  • Single Screen Excel-like Calculators - Any business user familiar with excel can define and manage plans

  • Intelligent adjustments - Users can quickly and easily make post-period adjustments with advanced data management features and the help of built in templates for administrating claw-backs, charge-backs and draws

  • Built-in quota management - Users can generate reports on previous attainments against targets as well as make and assign comprehensive budgeting plans

  • Extensive automated workflow capabilities - Users can define payment disputes, plan approval, payroll integration, and other workflows to reduce manual work, payout errors and provide detailed audit trails

  • Flexible communication of plan changes - Administrators and managers are able to communicate plan changes, SPIFs, sales competitions, and regulations quickly and easily

  • Payee modeling - Payees can directly access models to see how their individual compensation will change based on different actions taken

  • Hosted and On Premise - customers can choose their preferred implementation type

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What makes Merced Incentive Compensation Management different?

  • Advanced features
    Merced ICM includes capabilities that are unique in the incentives market. These include powerful, yet easy to use Excel-like calculators, data availability features such as real-time reporting and real-time modeling, and intelligent adjustments for administrative efficiency when facts or plan elements change post-pay or post-calculation.

  • Business Agility and Flexibility
    Built for business agility and responsiveness, Merced Incentive Compensation Management can be managed and maintained by business users without IT or programming support. Unique to Merced Incentive Compensation Management, this capability allows business users can manage all aspects of incentive compensation - from aggregating data from multiple sources, to executing pay-runs, reporting, modeling, and analytics. Merced Incentive Compensation Management is flexible enough to enable the business to react to constantly changing market conditions and business needs.

  • Proven in the largest, most complex operations
    Merced ICM is an enterprise-class incentive management application fully capable to scale across multiple geographies, languages, and business units as needed, while maintaining the ability to produce real-time calculations and payment reports. Merced Incentive Compensation Management’s advanced feature set uniquely supports the critical needs of large, multi-channel organizations, with features including built-in reporting, date effectively, credits and adjustments, plan authorization, auditable statements, dispute management, forecasting and analysis functionality.

  • Integrates with Merced’s portfolio of Performance Management applications
    Merced’s family of products are designed to work in a closed loop fashion for maximum business impact. This includes analytics for identification of optimal improvement campaigns, planning for financial and operational modeling of goals and incentives, and Execution applications, such as Merced ICM, to put the plan into action across the organization. The ability to integrate Merced Systems’ products allows an organization using any single product to easily expand as their Performance Management program widens in scope.


Merced Incentive Compensation Management is available on-demand or for on-premise deployment and is fully integrated with Merced Performance Suite.

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