CH 4
CH 4
CH 4
Sales
Force
Organization
Listen to the customer and act on
what they tell you.
Pat Nathan,
Vice President
Dell Computer Corp
McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2008 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
Agenda
Principles of Organization Design
Types of Sales Organization
Departmentalization (specialization) within
the sales function
Trends in the sales field
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Principles of Organization Design
Organizational structure should reflect a marketing
orientation
Organization should be built around activities, not
around people
Responsibility and authority should be related
properly
Span of executive control should be reasonable
Organization should be stable but not flexible
Activities should be balanced and coordinated
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(Figure 4-2)
Salespeople
Line authority
Staff advisory authority
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(Figure 4-3)
Salespeople
Line authority
Staff advisory authority
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(Figure 4-4)
Strategic
Planning Team
VP Strategic Planning
VP Finance & Information
Chief Operating Officer
Human Resources
Administration
Customer Customer
Support Team Fulfillment Team
Information Pricing and Promotion
Training Sales
Service Distribution
Research
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(Figure 4-5)
4 District 4 District
Sales Managers Sales Managers
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(Figure 4-7)
Assistant
Sales
Manager
Salespeople
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(Figure 4-8)
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(Figure 4-9)
Strategic account
management
Independent Organizational
E-commerce and
reps Options for the telemarketing
2000s
Team selling
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The Relationship Between A
Sales Team and a Buying Center
Organizational Sales- Exchange Purchasing Organizational
selling center person Process Agent buying center
Marketing Information
Purchasing
Sales Problem Solving
Manufacturing
Manufacturing Negotiation
Friendship, Trust R&D
R&D
Engineering Product/Services Engineering
Payment
Physical Marketing
Distribution Reciprocity
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(Figure 4-10)
$ Cost
Independent rep
Captive rep
$ Sales
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Uses of Telemarketing
Identify prospective customers
Screening, qualifying leads
Sales solicitation: small customers,
re-orders
Order processing
Product service support
Account management
Customer relations
Competitive reporting
Expense reporting
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