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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. Dealing with the Pandemic – Customer Validation.

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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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Preparing M&BD professionals for the future – learning, skills and knowledge transfer

Red Star Kim

The discussion was wide ranging and included: Strategy and commercial knowledge Decision-making processes and governance Science and art of building relationships Know your client – internal and external Becoming a Trusted adviser – consulting and advisory skills Be evidence-based – back everything up with data (and who owns and manages it) Rise of (..)

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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. Our quest toward partnership and problem solving is active and ongoing. The current business landscape is a perfect illustration of this principle.

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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.

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The Five Health Care Trends Every SAM Needs to Know

Strategic Account Management Association

8 webinar, “The new health system supply chain mandate: What every SAM needs to know,” hosted by SAMA and presented by Advisory Board’s Brandi Greenberg. . However, no trend effectively bridges the existing gaps across industry stakeholders. Vice President, Life Sciences & Health Care Ecosystem Research. Advisory Board.

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UNDERSTANDING PHARMA CUSTOMER ECOSYSTEMS

Clarity Engagement Solutions

Providers, payers and suppliers, also a distribution supply chain and the patients themselves. What are the pressures and challenges that stakeholders face at the moment? What does it include? – The rapid pace of change and innovation. – Patient empowerment. – The effect of merger and acquisition activity.