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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. Executive Sponsorship: Maps key customer stakeholders to executives and experts inside Aramex. Gross profit: The goal is to improve performance year over year.

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The Future of SAM – Revisited

Strategic Account Management Association

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. We have to understand how SAM relates to the other ways that we engage with customers like marketing, sales, supply chain management.”. 3 Strategic mindset.

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Tailoring Your Sales Message

Revegy

stakeholders in 2014 to 10.0 Increase profit margins. Our solutions expand profit margins by automating production processes and lowering total cost of manufacturing.”. In Figure 2, the company-wide goal is to improve profitability from 15.0 Remember, in our example, the goal is to improve profitability.

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“We’re all account managers now”

Mercuri International

There’s ‘traditional’ simple sales (think sales representative with a product portfolio) and complex sales (where a sale involves multiple components that make up the solution and/or numerous stakeholders). In itself, this can be problematic in complex sales, since the multiple stakeholders might all have subtly different objectives.

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Does Your Strategic Planning Process Incorporate Customer Value?

Luminas Strategy

Many organizations unknowingly offering de facto customer or stakeholder value as if they are operating on autopilot. Together, you can become more profitable. What can you start doing that will help your customers’ business be more profitable? Or is it the company because of your marketing, sales, or supply chain?

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Measuring Sales Performance – By Revenue or Margin?

Sales Management Matters

For this article’s purposes, we will define revenue as total sales volume or price and margin as the total profit from the sale (revenue minus cost of sale). Delivery of revenue growth without margin will not help the company achieve its forecasted profit objectives. What type of “margin” is being measured?

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Selling to the C-Suite: Strategies for Reaching Executive Decision Makers

Brooks Group

Purchase decisions often involve multiple stakeholders and a longer sales cycle. How much impact does your product or service have on your customers’ profitability, revenue, or cash flow? Senior decision maker titles also vary by industry. Follow up and persist.