You can set up opportunity sales cycles for the cycles that you usually follow to manage your sales opportunities.
Open the Sales Cycles window.
Press F3 to enter a new opportunity sales cycle.
Fill in the Code, Description and Probability Calculation fields. For Help about a specific field, click the field and press F1.
Repeat steps 2 and 3 to set up as many industry groups as you want.
After you have set up opportunity sales codes, you may want to set up the different stages within each cycle.