Customer Off-boarding Process - Termination

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Purpose

Manage the Termination Process to Off-Board the Customer by creating, processing and closing a Termination Case in SFDC which provides the description of the situation, all the step by step activities and holds all the related documentation to comply with company’s best practices and regulations. 

Scope

Function: Order Management owns this process

Job role(s): Order Management, Sales, Sales Operations, Customer Success, Customer Operations, Legal, Finance, Marketing Ops, Customer Marketing, Infrastructure Engineering Provisioning

Procedure

Provide the steps required to perform this procedure

Step Task Timings Responsible Party
1

Customer informs Anaplan of non-renewal, opt-out, or termination

Review the customer's original contract agreement for details on date of renewal and requirements around terminating the contract

Notification is typically sent to the Account Executive

Termination Case opened with all relevant documentation

30 days prior -Contract End Date 

Customer, Account Team, OM
2

The Account Team, RVP, AE, CSD and BP, are informed automatically by email

cc CS Ops, Sales Ops and Legal

  OM
3

Legal Confirm Termination Terms and Dates, and OM update the case

  Legal
4

"Customer Attrition" box is checked on the customer account in Salesforce

Day 1 OM
5

Termination Notification is sent from Salesforce to the Account Team 

cc CS Ops, Sales Ops and Legal

Day 2 OM
6

A task template is triggered which assigns off-boarding tasks to Anaplan stakeholders (Termination Team)

Day 3 OM
7

Deactivate Customer access and attach GUID(s) to the Termination Case 

Day 4

OM
8

At De-Provision Date or 72 hours before, send out the Final Termination Email to Account Team with Data Purge information

cc CS Ops, Sales Ops, Sec Ops, Legal

De-provisioning Date or 72 hours prior (local time)

OM
9

RVP and CSD should inform if Termination to hold otherwise Data are approved for Deletion 

cc. Legal, CS Ops, Sales Ops and Security

Before day 30 (or other, according to SSA) Account Team
10

When tasks are completed, information is updated in Salesforce case

- Customer Operations confirms customer attrition

- Finance confirms invoicing and payment status 

- Marketing add to exclusion lists

- Marketing ensure customer is no longer referenced publicly 

- Sales Ops confirm no Pipeline

- OM does Final Confirmation

 

Termination Team

11

Move the Termination Case to Infrastructure Engineering Provisioning Team for Data Purge 

Day 31 OM
12 Data Purge is completed and Termination case is moved to Status "Data Purge Done" Day 32 Infrastructure Engineering Provisioning Team
13

Case is then closed and Customer Type in Salesforce is updated to "Former Customer"

 

Day 33 OM

 

References

 

Attrition - Termination BOX folder

https://anaplan.box.com/s/tqxh58nlwuedlve5i42wy5hc5t9tfwic

 

Process Slides in Highspot.

 

Definitions

Identify and define frequently used terms or acronyms

Term Definition
SOP Standard Operating Procedure