Foundational classes

Research writer - Designed to create research reports utilizing Nielsen data

This class covers; 

• Creating a report
• Designing a report layout
• Using report-level options
• Ranking
• Working with reports
• Storing reports

Estimates & goals - Designed to establish the building blocks of the national buying process

This class covers; 

• Understanding national file structure
• Setting up basic records
• Entering goals

National prebuy - Designed primarily for National upfronts to build a national broadcast schedule and assist with network negotiations (can also be used throughout the year for scatter buying)

This class covers; 

• Entering plan details
• Adding programs
• Scheduling units
• Applying guarantees
• Reporting
• Uploading plans to national buy toolkit
• Exporting and emailing reports

National buy toolkit - Designed to steward and maintain national buys in DS

This class covers; 

• Maintaining packages
• Adding and uploading units
• Maintaining schedules
• Reporting and filtering
• Creating templates

Electronic cable orders - Designed to facilitate the national cable buying process

This class covers; 

• Requesting the package header report
• Viewing the EDI mailbox
• Uploading original orders
• Processing revisions
• Resolving units in the national toolkit inventory pane
• Resolving units in the revisions pane
• Uploading changes to national toolkit
• Emailing notice of change report

National reporting NetWriter - Designed to create reports based on information housed within the DS platform

This class covers; 

• Designing and changing NetWriter reports
• Requesting NetWriter reports
• Viewing, printing and saving reports
• Requesting reports in net toolkit

National invoice toolkit - Designed to assist users in the discrepancy resolution process

This class covers; 

• Preparing for invoice matching
• Working with the invoice matching report
• Using matchmaker

National posting - Designed to assign actuals rating information to the buy and report that information in the system

This class covers; 

• Posting network, syndication, and cable
• Running the Seed report
• Posting NTI codes manually

National Traffic - System is designed to assign commercial (ad information) to inventory and communicate that information to networks

This class covers; 

• Preparing for national traffic
• Determining what needs to be trafficked
• Assigning commercials to units
• Requesting instructions

Specialty classes

National demo estimator - Designed to create program records with estimated ratings and modify existing program records with historical Nielsen data

This class covers; 

• Downloading research data
• Viewing and selecting data
• Adding demographic estimates create program records
• Reviewing and change program records
• Uploading program records
• Updating existing program records

Brand allocation and ownership - Designed as a brand allocation and reporting tool to measure goals in the DS platform

This class covers; 

• Setting up for brand allocation
• Requesting brand allocation reports
• Working in brand ownership