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How Manufacturers Can Use AI Agents to Improve Ecommerce

Salesforce

For manufacturers, ecommerce comes with added complexity. Highly technical product details, bulk reorders, and pre-negotiated pricing and entitlements have historically made it difficult to provide cohesive, consumer-like ecommerce experiences for B2B buyers. For manufacturers, thats a gamechanger. What sets Agentforce apart?

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What Is Contract Negotiation?

Hubspot

A lot of time and effort is spent creating them, and this happens through a process called contract negotiation. In this post, learn about the key stages of contract negotiation, strategies for running a smooth negotiation, and scenarios where it makes sense to negotiate your contracts. Contract Negotiation Examples.

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The Four Buying Influences to Identify in Manufacturing Sales

Miller Heiman Group

In the past, manufacturing sellers could succeed by working with one or two decision-makers, developing friendships with handshake deals were agreed upon at the ballgame, on the golf course or during extravagant dinners. Yet many manufacturers struggle to coach their sellers on how to identify these buying influences.

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But Your Price Is Still Too High!

Partners in Excellence

The price covers manufacturing costs, parts costs, warranty costs, overheads, depreciation, and a whole number of other costs we incur in designing, manufacturing, bringing a product to market and supporting it. We discuss things internally–do they understand our investment in developing the product, manufacturing costs, etc.?

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Maximizing sales efficiency with deal desk software

PandaDoc

Matt Nyman, Client Success Manager Construction and manufacturing: these industries deal with a lot of complexities when it comes to vendors, sales, imports, exports, project terms, prices varying by project and location, and more. I no longer need to compartmentalize my sales tasks. All of this is more easily managed with deal desk software.

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What Sales Can Learn From Lean Manufacturing — Part 5

Partners in Excellence

If you haven’t read them, here are the links: What Sales Can Learn From Lean Manufacturing , Part 2 , Part 3 , and Part 4. Some of the overarching goals in applying TPS to manufacturing was the reduction of waste, improving quality, and making the process as efficient as possible.

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How to Define and Leverage Indirect Channels to Maximize Manufacturing Sales

Miller Heiman Group

Channel sales present a challenge for several industries, but it’s a particular concern for manufacturers. Furthermore, some manufacturers fail to nurture relationships with indirect channel sellers to provide the skills and resources they need to effectively sell your solution. Negotiate and finalize contracts.