Our client, a manufacturer in Michigan with multiple plants and multiple sales reps across the county, was living a spreadsheet nightmare. To manage their sales pipeline, they relied on a single sales administrator’s spreadsheet. This spreadsheet contained columns with all the key information management requested, but unfortunately not all sales reps consistently collected or reported that information back to the corporate head office. The result was that management never possessed a clear picture of what the sales team was doing or the status of future sales in their pipeline.
Another pain point for the company was that pricing for most opportunities had a number of required management approvals. The process of moving an opportunity through these approvals was also managed by a single administrator through emails and a spreadsheet. When a sales rep submitted a pricing request to corporate, they had no visibility to its status. Additionally, management could not see how many pricing requests they had in the pipeline, or where potential bottlenecks existed.
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online also helped transform their teamwork by providing the perfect platform to manage their pricing approval process. We helped them document their pricing approval process, including the optimal process for creating individual notices and tasks. From this, a
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Great story, Andree. The spreadsheet nightmare is such a common problem. You could substitute a thousand different company names regardless of geogrpahy or industry, and the story would still ring true.