Option C is correct because the business requirement is based on the HCP's relationship with a hospital, not the HCP's primary address. Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud Affiliations help organizations understand and map relationships between Healthcare Providers and Healthcare Organizations. Salesforce Help also describes Territory Alignment for Affiliated Accounts, where affiliated accounts can be aligned to territories based on affiliation relationships. This fits the scenario: the HCP's primary address points to San Francisco South, but their practice relationship with a hospital points to San Francisco North.
Option A is not the best answer because manually assigning the HCP to San Francisco North and excluding the record from future assignment rules creates a one-off exception. That may work temporarily, but it does not meet the requirement for automatic mapping based on practice location and affiliation. Option B is incorrect because it would use the HCP's primary address zip code, which the scenario says is aligned to San Francisco South. That would produce the wrong territory.
An affiliation assignment rule aligns the HCP based on their relationship with the hospital, so the HCP can be mapped to San Francisco North when the hospital affiliation drives the business alignment. Therefore, the correct configuration is to set up an affiliation assignment rule based on the HCP-HCO relationship.
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