The Excel documents that corporate forces you to use (territory planner and itinerary, to be specific) are ineffectual and poorly formatted. The database I engineered to plan my territory was much more comprehensive and contained more relevant information for our upcoming ADHD targets than what corporate offered. But I was still forced to manipulate my data to fit their small-minded idea of what it SHOULD look like. It took hours of unnecessary work just to fit into the company mold. What will I use on a daily basis? Mine. What will I be forced to spend hours per quarter updating to their platform? Theirs.
I’m assuming people will say that they make us do this because not all reps are so thorough, but we should be given the option (as professionals, and as adults) to use their platform or offer something that includes the information they “require” but that uses our own preferences for formatting, etc.
And the itinerary. The thing that we spent MORE hours on at POA, that they KNEW was going to be trash and would have to be redone anyway, but yet still forced us to complete it there? Why? Half the targets had to be removed, we had no pertinent information such as days off etc, so what was the point of that? I still just had to turn in a completely new one, again in a poor format (though I do appreciate that they have made it easier by auto-populating).
The 10/5/5 model is unrealistic, doesn’t take into account that you might have (oh dear!) 21 targets in one area, (oh no!) 19 targets on another, and it is yet another example of Supernus treating us like children instead of reps with 5 or more years of experience.
Rant over. Sorry. Obviously, I just spent the better part of this week trying to export my wonderfully clean data into their spreadsheets and am highly annoyed. But life will go on!
I’m assuming people will say that they make us do this because not all reps are so thorough, but we should be given the option (as professionals, and as adults) to use their platform or offer something that includes the information they “require” but that uses our own preferences for formatting, etc.
And the itinerary. The thing that we spent MORE hours on at POA, that they KNEW was going to be trash and would have to be redone anyway, but yet still forced us to complete it there? Why? Half the targets had to be removed, we had no pertinent information such as days off etc, so what was the point of that? I still just had to turn in a completely new one, again in a poor format (though I do appreciate that they have made it easier by auto-populating).
The 10/5/5 model is unrealistic, doesn’t take into account that you might have (oh dear!) 21 targets in one area, (oh no!) 19 targets on another, and it is yet another example of Supernus treating us like children instead of reps with 5 or more years of experience.
Rant over. Sorry. Obviously, I just spent the better part of this week trying to export my wonderfully clean data into their spreadsheets and am highly annoyed. But life will go on!