Why you should go beyond sales force automation:
Traditional sales force automation projects, many of which already had limited success due to lack of user adoption, are ill-equipped to support a new sales paradigm. Largely because the dynamics between buyers and sellers have changed, the digital revolution has shifted the balance of power, equipping buyers with much of the information they need to make purchase decisions. How can companies deal with this challenge? Download this webinar presentation deck and learn how leading companies transform sales effectiveness by going Beyond CRM.
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5. The Changing B2B Customer
“59%
would prefer not to interact
with a Sales Rep”
Source : Forrester on B2B
57%
of the way towards making a
decision before reaching out to
a potential vendor
6. Empowered Customers
HAVE HIGHER EXPECTATIONS
OF SALES
EXPECT MORE
MAKE BUYING DECISIONS BASED ON
PEER RECOMMENDATIONS
BUSINESSES ARE LESS TRUSTING
AND TOLERANT OF SALES
TRUST LESS
91% 80%60%
INFLUENCED BY
PEERS
SOURCE – LOUDHOUSE, Survey results based on responses from 1,220 global buyers
7. Not-So Contextual Sales
AVERAGE NUMBER OF STAGES IN
THE SALES JOURNEY
SALES TECHNOLOGIES AND
PROCESSES ARE MORE THAN 2
YEARS OLD
ALIGN SALES PROCESS TO
CUSTOMER JOURNEY
4-7 54%18%
SOURCE – LOUDHOUSE, Survey results based on responses from 800 global sales executive
8. YOUR TOOLS. Don‘t do what you need
OF CRM DEPLOYMENTS
FOR SALES HAVE POOR
USER ADOPTION.
Source: Chief Sales Officer INSIGHTS
74%
9. Missing in Action: Vital Sales Data
When research firm CSO Insights recently surveyed CRM
users on the benefits of using this technology, it found that
increased revenue—a top goal for nearly every
organization—was cited by only 19 percent of respondents.
In other words, more than 80 percent of CRM users say the
technology has failed to help them grow sales.
Worse, at more than 70 percent of companies,
salespeople still lack the information they need when
making sales calls despite all of the money and time
invested in CRM systems, according to a separate study
conducted by CSO Insights. That missing information, in
turn, can stifle sales success
62.0%
Lengthens sales cycles
46.7%
Increases no decision rates
38.3%
Increases odds of losing to competitors
32.1%
Reduces ability to cross- and up- sell
26.6%
Impacts customer satisfaction
14.2%
No impact on sales performance
12.8%
Increaes discounting
5.1%
other
Missing in Action: Vital Sales Data
Base: 354 companies
Source: CSO Insights, “Optimizing Sales Engagements:
Selling at the Speed of Change”, 2013.
10. SALES REPS
SPEND MORE TIME ENTERING
DATA THAN SELLING
SALES MANAGERS
SPEND MORE TIME ANALYZING
DATA THAN DRIVING SALES
11. SO, HOW DO YOU
SELL SMARTER IN THE
DIGITAL ECONOMY?
12. Going Mobile: A digital Transformation Imperative
of sales people will
access sales applications
exclusively through smart
phone and tablets”
Source: Gartner
55%
By 2016
13. CRM MUST EVELOVE FROM
CUSTOMER MANAGEMENT
TO CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT
14. SAP Customer Engagement & Commerce (CEC)
OMNI-CHANNEL CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT PLATFORM
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REAL-TIME ANALYTICS & PREDICTIVE
MDM FOR CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT & COMMERCE
INFRASTRUCTURE, PLATFORM, INTEGRATION
COMMERCE MARKETING SERVICE SALES
PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC CLOUD ON-PREMISE
15. OBJECTIVE SOLUTION
BENEFITS
IMPROVING
USER ADOPTION
WITH CLOUD FOR SALES
SAP Cloud for Sales
(migration from salesforce)
Easily identify sales opportunities and
have the insight into all customer
activities in order for sales to
be relevant and responsive.
Integrated sales platform with SAP
ERP integration provides complete
transparency. Easy to use mobile
interface provides everything sales
needs on the road.
16. Moving beyond Sales Force Automation
With new customer engagement technologies
I can reach deeper into the organization. I can
also energize representatives’ sales motions and
service motions that haven’t really been addressed
previously. There’s a big upside.
“
”Robert Wollan, Senior Managing Directo, Sales and Customer Services, Accenture
In the old situation, reps wouldn’t know.
Now, if a customer has placed a complaint,
reps can address that. They look as if they
really get the customer. It’s simply more
professional.
“
”Bas van Amerson. CRM Project Manager, Akzo NobelDecorative Paints
TYPE OF OPPORTUNITY OUT WITH THE OLD IN WITH THE NEW
Retailers and distributors Phone calls and emails to request customer
reports prior to sales visits. Data was
unreliable and incomplete.
View of updated customer data informs sales
rep of relationship status and issues that
need to be addressed.
Construction and refurbishment projects Lack of visibility into which paint contractors,
served by which sales rep, are poised to bid
on a given project in a sales territory.
Centralized list can be shared and project
opportunities coordinated so that sales reps
can collaborate on project bids and share
forecasts of probable wins.
New Markets Emails and phone calls to check status of
new store openings, required documents.
Standardized process for opening a new
store, with data shared between new store
and corporate systems.
AkzoNobel Increases Sales Productivity by Mobilizing Sales
Source: AkzoNobel
17. SAP Strategy for Sales leader. Sell Smarter.
ACCELERATE
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GAIN INSIGHT
INTO BUSINESS
SELL ANYTIME,
ANYWHERE
KNOW YOUR
CUSTOMER
Interesting to consider customer journey. Customers are empowered -> Digitally connected, Better informed. Customers choose their own journey. If you multiply the number of customers x number of products x number of channels x number of reasons to contact you realize that this starts to become very complex and something that’s impossible to “control”.
Been working with SAP customers across Asia for close to 20 years on Front office initiatives
Huge change over the past 3 years with organisations looking to move from internal focus (sales accounting) to outside in focus (customer experience transformation)
Led by Consumer organisations but there are some brilliant stories in B2B – for example Cemex (global cement manufacturer) –- commodity product so customer experience was the ultimate point of differentiation. Omni-channel (centralisation of contact center, customer portal, auto re-order via IoT devices in Siloes)
Reality is that many B2B organisations are lagging behind B2C.
Most organisations still use a model that was put together by Elmo Lewis in 1898 to design their CRM applications.
- Commissioned research via Forrester & Loudhouse (London based research agency but very global focus with at least 30% of respondents coming from APAC region) -> detailed papers available for download after webinar?
First finding is that B2B Customers are reluctant to work with a sales rep – begin engagement more than half way through sales cycle. Want to better understand this …
Spoke to buyers -> Found that essentially sales reps are providing customers with information they can already access online. Expectation is much higher -> deliver outcomes rather than products.
Buyers are more interested in peer influence than sales influence -> need to continue relationship with customer after purchase and create a platform for advocacy.
Spoke to sellers – most recognize the importance of aligning sales processes to the customer journey and doing this soon but few have begun the process.
One of the reasons is negative connotations of “Sales Force Automation” applications – many of which have had bad user adoption
Want to better understand why this is the case -> we can see here that the applications aren’t really adding value to sales reps.
One way of improving this is through mobility. A global garter study estimates that by next year 55% of sales people will access applications via smart phones. Given the way we manage the rest of our lives I’m surprised it’s so low!
But mobilizing Sales Force Automation isn’t enough … need to look at how to engage with customers
Introducing SAP CEC -> SAP’s Customer Engagement Platform.
-> From multi-channel to omni-channel
-> From separation of digital and physical to blending
-> From built for the desktop to mobile first
-> From outbound marketing to experience management (in context while the customer is in control)
-> From reporting on the past to predicting the future
-> From standalone to connected to the back office for execution
-> From product to solution
-> Available in the cloud for rapid time to value.
Want to talk about an important example of a customer
Akzo Nobel is the leading manufacturer of decorative paints – HQ in The Netherlands
Rolled out standalone cloud based SFA to sales. Nice usability but …
Poor user adoption due to
Lack of customer data
Past sales data
Product Availability
Inability to perform actions on customer visits
Creation of Quotes, Orders, Complaints etc
Moved to SAP Cloud for Sales – seen significant improvement in customer adoption
Some specific examples of inefficiencies they have resolved:
Preparing for the “perfect customer visit”
Focusing on solution based outcomes
Acceleration of new business.
Core philosophy
Unlock the shackles and empower sales where they need to be
Ensure the system is as good at getting data out as it is easy to put data in
Easy to use team collaboration and ability to execute on business processes (no more sending e-mail to back office to ask for a price)
Most importantly know your customer! Bring together the front office and back office information needed to service them better.