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JIT Inventory Defined: A 2024 Guide to Just-in-Time Inventory

Salesforce

This approach contrasts with traditional manufacturing methods, which involve producing goods in advance and storing them in inventory until they are sold. JIT manufacturers rely on their suppliers to deliver goods on time and in the exact quantities needed. Another key principle of JIT inventory management is to minimize waste.

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Sales Prospecting Techniques for 2021

Heinz Marketing

Retail and manufacturing are very different, so don’t treat them the same way, even if your functionality serves them similarly. The post Sales Prospecting Techniques for 2021 appeared first on Heinz Marketing. Pick out your top 5 accounts to focus those efforts on and use a template for the others. My last tip.

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What Sales Can Learn From Lean Manufacturing

Partners in Excellence

There a number of people with views that sales can learn a lot from manufacturing and applying lean and agile manufacturing methods to the sales function. I tend to agree, a lot of the underpinnings of great manufacturing have great applicability to selling. How do we add value to each of those?

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How to put marketing data into meaningful context

Martech

They manufactured and sold men’s brushless shaving cream and got creative. Techniques for effective data presentation Over the years, it has become so easy to obtain campaign data, website performance data and financial data that we are overwhelmed by the data. The Burma-Shave company was doing it in the 1930s. The result?

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How to Re-Manufacture Your Marketing: An Inbound Marketing Guide for Manufacturers

Hubspot

Manufacturers have the chance to reach a wide audience, improve their sales, and increase their revenue with the help of inbound marketing and automation. Why is Inbound Marketing Important for Manufacturers? This process can take months or even years in the manufacturing industry.

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Settling For What We Get, Rather Than Getting What We Want……

Partners in Excellence

I read a fascinating article about the response rates for a variety of outbound email prospecting techniques. The author, with a client, had tested 8 techniques to pitch their solutions. The argument the author was making was the technique that produced 1.25% was the best approach (which aligned with what they sold).

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Let’s Talk About Lean Manufacturing For A Moment….

Partners in Excellence

So much of what our focus in “modern selling,” seems to be the adaptation of Lean Manufacturing techniques into selling. But somehow, we’ve missed some very important principles in Lean Manufacturing. They are the fundamentals that make this so important in making lean manufacturing work.