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

Strategic Account Management Association

Director Global Account Management, Aramex. Aramex is a leading global provider of comprehensive logistics and transportation solutions, headquartered in Dubai and listed on the Dubai Financial Market. By Shahaboddin Wahdatehagh, Sr. Tier 2: Applied Processes. Gross profit: The goal is to improve performance year over year.

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Want to Accelerate Your SAM Journey? Create a Center of Excellence

Strategic Account Management Association

Disruption Leads to Innovation. Disruption, although most times unwelcome, gives way to innovation. Could the mother of creativity and innovation, in fact, be disruption? Companies are seeking interactions with customers that bring them new insight, knowledge, ideas and innovations.

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Exclusive insights from the SAMA Executive Symposium

Arpedio

Explore actionable strategies, best practices, and innovative approaches that promise to revolutionize the way you approach Strategic Account Management. In summary, here are the key takeaways we brought home: Foundational elements such as adaptive leadership, and technological innovation emerged as crucial drivers of SAM success.

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Strategic Account Management Best Practices Checklist

The Chapman Group

Greater clarity on title and role within the formalized program often benefit all account managers; including the top achievers. Some organizations have also chosen the terms GAM (Global Account Manager), and CAM (Corporate Account Manager). Account site visits to our corporate offices with senior level leaders.

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The Business Review: a modern classic, so important also during difficult times

KAM With Passion

On a Key Account, the Quarterly Business Review is a key instrument to implement the Account Strategy and the associated Account Plan. Business Reviews in a Key Account Management context. KAM is a strategic initiative which comes on top of plain Account Management.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Augmented SAM

Mercuri International

Set objectives & strategy A SAM should create a sensible and sustainable strategy for strategic accounts, help develop the account plan, and build buy-in across the organization. AI tools to augment the SAM might include: Embedded tools to predict strategic account growth areas. Account planning automation.

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Why Start a (True) Key Account Management Initiative?

KAM With Passion

For all organisations, large or small, who take it seriously, practicing KAM is about developing deep and strong relationships with truly strategic customers in order to accelerate innovation and growth. As stated earlier, boosting innovation has become a key criterion for organisations with a mature KAM practice.