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The Future of SAM – Revisited

Strategic Account Management Association

This blog post is based on a keynote presentation from the 2021 SAMA Annual Conference. Panelists’ remarks have been paraphrased for this blog post. . They are: Stakeholder Value : Clients have all had to pivot to survive; as a result, the sources of value creation and relevant stakeholders have shifted.

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How Aramex’s Young SAM Program Provides Strategic Value and Impact

Strategic Account Management Association

Aramex services include international and domestic express delivery, freight forwarding, integrated logistics and supply chain management, and e-commerce solutions. The primary component of the SAM program was the establishment of a dedicated global organization, called Strategic Value & Impact (SV&I).

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The Enterprise Value Chain Is Broken

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In this interconnected world, one business’s output is another’s input, creating an endless stream of value across entire industries and ecosystems. […]. Every organization works with dozens, if not hundreds, of vendors and an even larger number of customers.

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Character Matters: Learn How to Become a Better SAM

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Leaders believed that the “soft stuff” was nice but unimportant as it does not bring value to the bottom line. People take responsibility for their own choices and actions and embrace responsibility for the whole community and supply chain. It is a chain reaction.”. This same belief rang true in the world of sales training.

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Turning lemons into lemonade: Five ways to reset on customer management fundamentals in a post-pandemic world

Strategic Account Management Association

At that time, customers told us they were less focused on price in negotiations and more focused on keeping the business running, with expectations including: Changes (increase or decrease) in supply chain deliveries Delays in payment schedules Changes in allocation of volume contracted. 4: Focus on value. Value is a thing.

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People & Problems: The core of strategic account planning

Strategic Account Management Association

What I see from these dual worldviews is twofold: First, that the global pressures stemming from COVID and supply chain squeezes are throwing roadblocks in the path of us all. Everything we think we know needs to be validated, then validated again to ensure we know how we can deliver value. Keeping sight of why we do what we do.

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How Jaclyn D’Arcy at GHX Drives Sales Readiness | Building Modern Sellers Blog Series

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Lastly, we are focused on onboarding newly acquired companies to ensure speed to value for both existing and new commercial teams. . We’re supposed to be able to build supply chain health assessments and help them figure this out; but now it’s happening over an hour-long Zoom call.