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Back to the Future: F2F selling is returning, but virtual selling is here to stay

Strategic Account Management Association

COVID-19 has accelerated a trend already underway toward increased virtual interactions between customers and their suppliers. And we need extensive collaboration with potential suppliers to explore requirements and alternative technologies? We’ve been using e-auctions for 20 years. Figure 5: Most common challenges of virtual selling.

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The Kraljic Matrix

Flevy

Collaborate with suppliers, or rivals, to manufacture critical components cost-effectively. The matrix facilitates buyers during times of abrupt technology disruption, economic instability, and shifting regulatory and environmental circumstances. Move towards reducing unacceptable sourcing risks. Decide on make-versus-buy choices.

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How Social Sellers Build Their Pipeline with LinkedIn

SBI Growth

LinkedIn provides tools that facilitate social gifting. If you are good at your job, your customer will facilitate introductions. Supplier, vendors, channel partners. For reference, our customer research shows an average 63% win rate on referrals. LinkedIn is the ideal platform to aid referral-based interactions. Find the link.

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Reverse Auction: What It Is & How to Crush It in Sales

Hubspot Sales

All suppliers receive the same information — Because all sellers are responding to the same request for proposal (RFP), everyone receives the same information from the buyer, leveling the playing field in competitive markets. With many reverse auctions being facilitated online and B2B, the process is also referred to as: eProcurement.

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What (the Heck) Is Value Stream Mapping? A Look at the Process

Hubspot Sales

Customer/supplier icon. When placed at the upper left-hand corner of the value stream, this symbol represents the supplier. At this point, we’ve covered the key steps and symbols you need to know to facilitate a value stream mapping exercise. Value Stream Mapping Symbols. Dedicated process flow icon.

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How Project N95 streamlined its volunteer-staffed support using Zendesk

Zendesk

Project N95 stepped in to facilitate smaller purchases of PPE, everything from N95 face masks to gloves to hand sanitizers, buying in bulk from trusted suppliers, then working with partners to package orders and send them to customers across the U.S. We’ve had that issue since the very beginning of the pandemic.”.

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Shifting Gears: Transforming Traditional Automotive Software Delivery in the Digital Age

Planview

It facilitates automation and eliminates manual tasks, speeding up information and material flow through the supply chain. VSM enhances cross-functional collaboration, aligning physical and digital teams across manufacturers and suppliers for seamless integration.