Sales and Distribution Management

Sales and Distribution Management

Sales and Distribution Management

About the Tutorial

Sales management is an art where the sales executive or the salesperson helps the organization or individual to achieve its objective or buy a product with their skills. This is a brief introductory tutorial that explains the functions in sales and distribution management. This tutorial also throws light on the strategies applied in distributing tasks to the sales personnel and their performance.

Audience

This tutorial will be useful for those who wish to understand sales and distribution management as an art to increase customer demand for a particular product. This tutorial will help those who wish to apply sales techniques and manage a firm's sales operation.

Prerequisites

To understand this tutorial, it is advisable to have a foundation level knowledge of management. However, general students who wish to get a brief overview of sales and distribution management may find this tutorial quite useful.

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Table of Contents

About the Tutorial ..................................................................................................................................i Audience ................................................................................................................................................i Prerequisites ..........................................................................................................................................i Disclaimer & Copyright ...........................................................................................................................i Table of Contents ..................................................................................................................................ii

1. SDM -- INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................1

Skills of a Sales Executive.......................................................................................................................2 Importance of Sales Management .........................................................................................................3 Objective of Sales Management ............................................................................................................4

2. SDM -- SALES MANAGEMENT STEPS .................................................................................5

Set Objective .........................................................................................................................................5 Develop Sales Strategy ..........................................................................................................................5 Develop Tactics......................................................................................................................................6

3. SDM -- PROCESS ...............................................................................................................7

Planning ................................................................................................................................................7 Staffing ..................................................................................................................................................8 Training .................................................................................................................................................9 Leading ..................................................................................................................................................9 Controlling ........................................................................................................................................... 10 Performance ........................................................................................................................................ 12

4. SDM -- SALES METHODS .................................................................................................13

Electronic Sales....................................................................................................................................16 Request for Proposal ...........................................................................................................................17

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5. SDM -- TECHNIQUES OF SALES........................................................................................18

Conceptual Selling ...............................................................................................................................18 Sales Negotiation ................................................................................................................................19 Sales Negotiation Strategies ................................................................................................................20 Negotiation Outcomes ........................................................................................................................20 Reverse Selling ....................................................................................................................................21 Take away ...........................................................................................................................................22 Sales Outsourcing ................................................................................................................................22 Advantages of Sales Outsourcing.........................................................................................................23

6. SDM -- SALES ORGANIZATION.........................................................................................24

Characteristics of a Sales Organization ................................................................................................24 Significance of Sales Organization .......................................................................................................25 Types of Sales Organization .................................................................................................................25 Functional Type ...................................................................................................................................26 Product Type .......................................................................................................................................27 Consumer Specialization Type .............................................................................................................28 Area Type ............................................................................................................................................30

7. SDM -- SALES QUOTA......................................................................................................32

Objectives............................................................................................................................................ 32 Types of Sales Quota ...........................................................................................................................32 Methods for Setting Sales Quota .........................................................................................................33

8. SDM -- SALES TERRITORY ................................................................................................ 35

Reasons for Establishing Territories.....................................................................................................35 Procedure for Designing ......................................................................................................................37

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Select Control Point.............................................................................................................................37 Making an Account Analysis ................................................................................................................38 Developing a Salesperson Workload Analysis......................................................................................38 Combining Geographical Control Units into Sales Territories...............................................................39 Territory Shape....................................................................................................................................39 Assigning Sales Personnel to Territories ..............................................................................................40

9. SDM -- PERSONAL SELLING ............................................................................................. 41

Objectives of Personal Selling..............................................................................................................41 Relevant Situation for Personal Selling ................................................................................................42 Diversity of Selling Situation................................................................................................................43

10. SDM -- STEPS IN PERSONAL SELLING...............................................................................46

Prospecting.......................................................................................................................................... 46 Train/Educate the Prospects................................................................................................................47 Preparation for the Sale of Product .....................................................................................................47 Presentation ........................................................................................................................................ 48 Handling Objections ............................................................................................................................49 Closing the Sale ...................................................................................................................................50 Follow-up ............................................................................................................................................51

11. SDM -- SALES MANAGEMENT BUDGET ...........................................................................52

Objective of Sales Budgeting ...............................................................................................................52 Methods of Sales Budgeting ................................................................................................................52 Preparation of Sales Budget ................................................................................................................53 Communicating Overall Objectives......................................................................................................54 Selling the Sales Budget to Top Management......................................................................................54

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