Field Sales
(Release 3.0)
Contents Field Sales in Context with mySAP CRM Field Sales with mySAP CRM
Features Technology Background Best Practices for Field Sales
Contents
Field Sales in Context with mySAP CRM Field Sales with mySAP CRM
Features Technology Background Best Practices for Field Sales
Who What
Marketing
Sales
Service
Executives
Engage
Internet
Mobile
Telephony
Operational
Analytical
Collaborative
A sales representative synchronizes the data in her mobile application and receives the new activities related to this customer.
Business Process
A suite of tools tailored to the needs of the offline field sales force provides:
An integrated view of customers, prospects, products, services, competitors, activities, opportunities, quotations, orders, and so on
Heavy cross-referencing for easy navigation
The tool suite provides access to personalized customer relationship management information anytime, anywhere
Improved customer satisfaction and retention Faster response times Sales focus on profitable customers Increased accountability of sales and marketing Reduced transaction costs due to ease of purchase Competitive differentiation through better customer relationships Enablement of team selling
Contact Persons Activities and Calendar Products and Services Infocenter Campaigns
Territory Management
Sales Documents
Opportunities
Contact Persons
Large address book of external, internal, or private contact persons. Keeps up-to-date information about points of contact
Campaigns
Supports the sales force in marketing campaigns, sales campaigns, product launches, and product campaigns
Opportunities
Actively manages the progress of opportunities throughout the entire sales cycle
Sales Documents
Allows users to create and track sales documents, such as inquiries, quotations, and orders, as well as to quickly edit and personalize them to match customers specific needs. Sales documents also incorporate pricing and configuration capabilities.
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Territory Management
Enables time-dependent assignment of sales territories to sales people
Business Partners: Features Provides immediate access to up-to-date customer information and history for all sales team members:
Complete customer access via the face-to-face interaction channel
Address management Assignment of sales teams Marketing profiles
Financial information, such as dunning and account data Group hierarchy for various purposes, such as pricing Maintenance of contact and visiting hours Relationship management Installed base management Attachments Notes
Increase data quality Reduce data redundancy Improve relationships with your customers and partners
Access relevant information anytime in an offline environment
Notes
Increase the efficiency of the sales field organization Increase data quality Reduce data redundancy Improve relationships with your customers and partners Access relevant information anytime in an offline environment
Activities and Calendars: Features Keep an overview of your daily agenda so you can stay organized:
Maintain appointments and tasks linked to any business object, such as contact person or opportunity Support for recurrent activities Bidirectional interface to Microsoft Outlook 98, Microsoft Outlook 2000, and Lotus Notes 5.0
Activities and Calendars Example: Organizing your daily appointments and tasks
Facilitation of personal time management Effective task and time management for field sales
organization
Easy organization of all sales activities Integration with Microsoft Outlook Support of team selling activities
Products and Services: Features Provides immediate, offline access to all up-to-date product and service information:
Overview of a product or service with all kinds of technical and business information Marketing Information Relationships between products
Attachments
Notes Bill of materials
Web agents gather both internal enterprise information and external, personalized, Web-based news sources, such as news, customer stock info, and press releases.
High-visibility alerts can pop up on top of other applications to alert users to critical information. Publish high-quality video and audio messages to field users.
The Infocenter provides information to the field sales force Individual subscriptions provide only the necessary
information
Campaigns: Benefits
Provides an overview of your campaigns Provides campaign information for use by your field sales force Enables you to better match your resources to your customers
needs
Opportunities: Benefits
Early and correct qualification Shorter sales cycle and more reliable forecasts Manage and control sales projects
Sales Documents: Features Enables sales reps to create more accurate sales documents offline in a structured way directly at the customer site:
Using the same pricing and configuration data in mySAP CRM, both online and offline, guarantees consistent sales documents everywhere:
Sales, shipping, billing, conditions, and notes both on the header and line-item level Status and partner information Attachments Online ATP check Bill of material explosion Flexibly create printouts using Microsoft Word templates Change the sales document-related conditions offline
Agreements: Features
Important source of information regarding the management of the relationship with business partners:
Listings These objects contain listed products together with price for a specific business partner. The listing information is used for the sales document entry and the condition determination.
Contracts
Agreements: Benefits
Territory Management: Features The territory hierarchy reflects the sales structure of your organization:
Time-dependent assignment of business partners and sales reps to territories Derive the subscription from territory assignments Anticipate changes in the sales structure
Territories reflect the sales organization of a company Use time-dependent information to derive the
subscriptions regarding business partner information
System Landscape
An Overview of System Integration Mobile Clients
SAP R/3
Communication Station
CRM data and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
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SAP BW
Architecture Summary
Based on modern industry standards
Uses object-oriented approach
Based on COM/DCOM
Integrates Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) for business rule development Highly configurable and reusable objects
Programming languages
ABAP, C++, VBA
Test catalogs
Master data
Opportunity Management
This scenario covers everything you need to handle all relevant information from cross-selling analysis through first customer contact to the conclusion of the project.
For more information about Collaborative Business Maps (e.g. Web-based animations and related business benefits), please refer to www.sap.com\C-Business
The scenario Field Sales: Opportunities comprises all relevant information and activities needed by a sales representative to prepare for and to make a cross-selling offer to a customer. The sales representative carries out a cross-selling analysis to identify all relevant customers and creates opportunities. These opportunities can be linked with the appropriate business partners, products, documents, planned activities and information on competitors.
The sales representative contacts the customers identified by telephone, documents the telephone calls and creates the sales orders for the cross-selling product as required by each customer.
Subsequently the sales staff confirm the commissioning, packing, shipment and billing procedures. Finally a success analysis of all cross-selling opportunities can be carried out.
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Component View
Manufacturer
Mobile Client
Conduct Customer Analysis Create Opportunity Create Competitor Call Customer Create Competitor Update Data e.g. Activities) Create Competitor
Customer
SAP R/3 SCE
SAP CRM
Make Order
Enter Order
Create Order
Legend
Business partner or department taking part in the scenario Activity of business partner involved in the scenario
Information flow showing how information is shared between business partners Business documents exchanged between business partners, e.g. delivery note
Contents Field Sales in Context with mySAP CRM Field Sales with mySAP CRM
Features Technology Background Best Practices for Field Sales