We often have large project opportunities that involve multiple business units. Each of our business units operates independently, and thus each BU has its own pipeline and own deals. We would like to be able to associate deals with other deals in a parent-child relationship, so that we can better understand the big picture and how the pieces of each deal roll up into the larger project Deal. For example, the overarching project opportunity/deal totals $1MM. - Business Unit A has an opportunity for $500,000 of that project - Business Unit B has an opportunity for $300,000 of that project - Business Unit C has an opportunity for $200,000 of that project Depending on the project we may win/lose all or some of the total project. One BU may win the entirety of their opportunity/deal, while the other two do not, or perhaps only win a portion of their part of the project. We want to see that all 3 deals are all linked together, and that the "parent" deal totals $1MM.
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