Sales Force Automation for a Leading Home Appliances Company in UAE
A globally renowned vacuum cleaning and floor care brand was looking for a robust Sales Force Automation solution to closely monitor promoter performance and sales numbers to decide on the ROI of the sales force deployed in UAE. They have sales promoters deployed across all the emirates in UAE and in all leading modern trade retail chains such as Carrefour, Sharaf DG, Lulu, Emax etc. They were looking for a Promoter Management Solution which will help them to track following parameters and take important strategic and tactical decisions basis the same:
- Promoter Discipline
- Sales Targets and Achievements
- Competition Activity
- Sales trend by store, promoter, emirates and product categories
- Real-time email alerts and dashboard
Approach
Assistive, our cloud-based Sales Force Automation solution, was a perfect fit for what client was asking. All we had to do was effectively utilizing available configuration options and doing some minor customizations for a quick roll-out. The key activities in project execution were as follows:
- Our Dubai based Customer Success team held multiple meetings with key stakeholders to understand their concern with the sales team and what reports or alerts will be immediate call-to-action for them
- Quick implementation of the customized solution ensuring an intuitive mobile app workflow for the promoters
- Implemented geo-tagged and time-stamped attendance feature to track promoter discipline
- Additional feature to capture break-in and break-out time was also implemented
- Rolled out an easy and intuitive sales reporting workflow to capture units sold for each SKU along with unit price
- Quickly configured and released an easy workflow to report competition activities
- Classroom trainings were arranged in Dubai in small batches to ensure training sessions are effective
- Developed advanced dashboards to monitor important metrics such as working hours, total sales, achievement % etc.
- Separate email-based reports were generated for senior stakeholders such as director
- Summarized dashboards were created in the mobile application for promoters to regularly check their performance
- User activity was closely monitored to quickly address usability issues and constraints leading to a rapid adoption of the system
Outcome
With successful implementation of Assistive solution, in-store promoters started reporting attendance, sales and competition data without any hassle and client could get complete visibility and insight of its sales operations across UAE. The key highlights are as follows:
- Significant improvement in discipline and hygiene of the sales force
- Promoters were more motivated as they had complete visibility of their target achievement
- Automation of lot of daily tasks of the sales team freeing them up to focus more on sales
- Managers focusing more on course correction and strategic decisions rather than collating data over WhatsApp or E-mail
- Quick auctioning based on the real-time email alerts and reports resulting in increased operational efficiency
- Senior Management were enabled to take a call on upcoming product portfolio basis the sales trend visible to them
