The Negotiation Module

Negotiation may last months without arriving to a formal offer. Central Sales Department needs to monitor the expected business volume, the probability of success, the presence of each Competitor.

Negotiation record contains information about:

 

 

  • Customer data
  • Market data (Area, Salesman, Manager, Dealers)
  • Forecast dates (Order and Shipment)
  • Probability percentages (purchase and winning)
  • List of customer’s contacts with their role in the project
  • List of products and prices
  • List of bidding Competitors

Negotiation module allows Salesmen and Area Managers to input information and then keep informed the Central Site, updating also the other installations which share the same information. Negotiation records are generated by Sales Force on their own PC’s. The Synchronization procedure transfers those information to the Central Site. Lost orders require to input information on winning competitor and reason of the loss.

Analysis by charts may be done on :

  • Orders by areas and their trends in the time
  • Lost orders by reason and competitor
  • Market share and redemption ratios.

Scheduled activities can be linked to every negotiation and notified to the other users involved :

  • List of people invited or informed
  • Alert time advance set by the single user

Notes can be linked to every negotiation tracing the history of the negotiation. Defining private and public notes allows to have personal remarks and shared chronicles.