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What is “return on sales” and how to improve it?

QYMATIX

The largest figures came from depository institutions (banks, credit unions and savings & loans) with 57.1% Negotiate supplier discounts Next, anything you can do to cut your cost of goods sold will positively impact your return on sales. to 9.7%; a significant growth even on the prior two year’s figures.

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What is “return on sales” and how to improve it?

QYMATIX

The largest figures came from depository institutions (banks, credit unions and savings & loans) with 57.1% Negotiate supplier discounts Next, anything you can do to cut your cost of goods sold will positively impact your return on sales. to 9.7%; a significant growth even on the prior two year’s figures.

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25 Problems That Stop Key Account Managers From Doing Their Job

Account Manager Tips

You need to be able to identify opportunities, build rapport with key contacts, negotiate favourable contracts, and work collaboratively with your team. You can take these to the bank (or at least to your boss). Subscribe at : Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher If you think your job is harder than it should be.

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What is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Apptivo

Improve supplier negotiations backed by analytics. An ERP gives insight into all company related data and also on suppliers, service providers, and customers, allowing for convenient information exchange. Minimizes underbuying and overbuying. Connect with buyer networks based on data. The Sales module.

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How can agencies make client relationships more profitable?, with Chris Merrington

Account Management Skills

He specialises in helping agency leaders and their teams negotiate more profitably. I’ve had it on my shelf for a few years now and it becomes a reference guide for negotiating. Negotiating to become more profitable, have better relationships, increased pricing, which some agencies are not very good at. So Chris, welcome.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Landing Your First Enterprise Client

SmartKarrot

The contract negotiation is the last of several challenges you must clear up, including introductions, calls, meetings, follow-up emails, and demonstrations. It is far easier to negotiate with an early adopter or a business that has prioritized being on the cutting edge of technology than with an organization that sees innovation as a luxury.

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Lateral Leadership: A New Approach to Leadership in Today’s Evolving Corporate Environment

CM Partners

We developed the concept of Lateral Leadership from our work in the field of high-stakes negotiation. Furthermore, the traditional boundaries separating employees, contractors, consultants, partners, suppliers and customers are more blurred than ever. Reporting lines are, if no longer matrixed, certainly not purely vertical.