Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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Sales Position Brief Description Examples
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Sales Position Brief Description Examples
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Evolution, nature and
Importance of sales
management
Evolution of Sales Management
Head-
Marketing
CEO /
President
District / Branch / Area Sales Managers First / Lower Level Sales Managers
Cars24
-Vikram Chopra (CEO) and
-Mehul Agrawal (COO)
Cartrade
-Vinay Sanghi
Spinny
-Niraj Singh
Global perspective
Revolution in technology
Customer relationship management (CRM)
Salesforce diversity
Team selling approach
Managing multi-channels and Omnichannel
Ethical and social issues
Sales professionalism
E-Selling
Business Standard 26 December 2020
Distribution Management
3. Develop specifications
3. Supplier search
4. Proposal solicitation
5. Supplier selection
6. Order-routine specification
7. Performance review
Characteristics of Business markets
Fewer, larger buyers Multiple sales calls
Close supplier–customer Derived demand
relationships Inelastic demand
Professional purchasing Fluctuating demand
Multiple buying Geographically
influences concentrated buyers
Direct purchasing
Differences between Consumer and Organizational Buying Behaviour
Point of
Consumer Buying Behavior Organizational Buying Behavior
difference
The buying purpose of organizational buyers is to
Individuals buy goods and services for
Purpose earn profit by using and reselling the goods and
their own usage.
services.
Decisions are taken either by consumers Organizational buying is a rational process and a
Purchase
by themselves or in consultation with buying team decides about the purchases in a
Decision
family members and friends. firm.
Most of the time, the consumers do not
Organizational purchases are carried out on pre-
Market have adequate knowledge and
specified criteria. The organizational buyers have
Knowledge information about specifications of goods
adequate knowledge of market and vendors.
and services.
Buying The consumer buying process is It is relatively complex and time consuming
Process relatively simple. process..
Although consumers buy various kinds of
Quantity goods, the quantity of goods remains Organizational buying is done in large quantities.
small.
Consumer buying behavior is effected by
A number of individuals and departments are
Effect age, occupation, income level,
involved in the buying process.
education, gender etc. of consumers.
Types of Consumers buy many goods to use to Organizational buyers buy limited goods to use to
Goods satisfy personal or family needs. conduct business.
Organizational versus Consumer SELLING