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How to Tackle 8 Manufacturing Sales Challenges

Brooks Group

The manufacturing industry is vast, encompassing a wide variety of products and services tailored to specific industries and customer needs. Although supply chains have rightsized since the pandemic, many manufacturers are dealing with increased customer choice, greater competition, and compressed margins. Challenge 2. Challenge 3.

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Sales enablement is your engine to drive digital transformation

Showpad

It might come across as a bold statement — sales enablement is your engine to drive digital transformation. . In this blog post, I will show you why sales enablement should be set up in a way that it becomes the engine and the driving force for your digital transformation efforts in sales. .

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How 2 Brands Successfully Shook Up Their Sales Strategy

Hubspot Sales

By Q3, its year over year growth had effectively stalled, and its profits had dropped a whopping 24%. It pivoted its sales efforts to keep pace with digital transformation and saw the results it needed. In 2019, the manufacturer moved a company record 61,568 vehicles in US retail — a gain of 7.6 The investment paid off.

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The Four Corners Analysis

Flevy

For example, a competitor with a mission rooted in innovation is going to allocate significant resources to R&D, even at the expense of profitability in the short term. By analyzing the competitor’s current strategy, the manufacturer identified their aggressive pricing and market penetration tactics.

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The Kraljic Matrix

Flevy

Two key factors critical for devising a robust purchasing and supply management strategy are: Strategic importance of purchasing: This factor measures the ratio of raw material costs to total costs, their impact on profitability, and the value addition done by the entire product portfolio. Move towards reducing unacceptable sourcing risks.

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Group 50 and Shapecast partnership

Shapecast

Shapecast, the leading provider of data-driven strategy execution and digital transformation solutions and Group50, a leading strategy advisory firm, have today announced a partnership. Group50 consultants are subject matter experts in Manufacturing, Distribution and global Supply Chains.

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How to Align Your Sales Pitch with C-Suite Buyers

Openview

Because major technology purchases are increasingly tied to corporate-wide, digital transformation efforts, which are largely being driven by C-Level players. Technology vendors have woken up to the reality that C-Level conversations are inevitable and necessary. Not convinced? Let’s look for a moment at Hershey Company.

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