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Service Sales and Marketing

Business Scenario

 


Key Performance Indicators

  • Campaign/Event Cost Revenue Ratio
  • Customer Satisfaction Index
  • Returns % Sales
  • Annual Sales To Inventory Ratio
  • Average Working Capital
  • Cost Of Labor To Sales Ratio
  • Direct Labor Costs
  • Partner Opportunities

  • Partner Opportunities in Industrial Machinery & Components
  • See also

  • SAP NetWeaver Benefits
  • Scenario and Process Component List

  • Service  Sales & Marketing enables you to manage your service portfolio and customer accounts. It supports presales activities - starting from identifying new opportunities, up-selling  and cross-selling to your customer base, marketing new services and launch these services through  marketing campaigns via multiple communication channels.

    Business Goals & Objectives


    Improving Customer Service

    Improve product/service quality
    Provide a single face to the customer
    Shorten proposal/quotation cycle

    Increasing Revenue

    Develop new markets
    Develop service offerings
    Efficient campaign planning and management
    Enable cross-sell/up-sell capability
    Improve customer retention and loyalty

     



    Business Processes

    Account PlanningSAP Component or Feature Available
    Provides a sophisticated picture of all planned revenue, associated costs and contribution margin. This enables you to make more informed decisions during planning, and to better control costs from trade spends and discounts.
     
    Account ProcessingSAP Component or Feature Available

    Provides you with a solution for managing and processing business partners and contact persons. In addition, the integration of business transactions, contacts, marketing attributes and so on provides quick access to and easy maintenance of all the information on business partners or contact persons.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Service Operations Planning & Execution for IM&C
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    Activity ProcessingSAP Component or Feature Available

    In this process, you create a business activity, and the data you enter in the business activity is automatically transferred to your groupware administration system, in this case, Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes. Next, you document the business activity, for example, using an activity journal or questionnaire.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Marketing (SAP CRM)
  • SAP Sales Management (SAP CRM)
  • SAP Service Management (SAP CRM)
  • SAP Service Operations Planning & Execution for IM&C
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    Opportunity ProcessingSAP Component or Feature Available

    An opportunity is a recognized possibility for business, for example, the sale of products or services. The opportunity makes up the framework for displaying sales projects from the beginning, and monitoring their success.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Marketing (SAP CRM)
  • SAP Sales Management (SAP CRM)
  • SAP Service Management (SAP CRM)
  • SAP Service Operations Planning & Execution for IM&C
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    Sales Performance AnalysisSAP Component or Feature Available
    The Sales Performance Analysis measures performance from different perspectives in order to give sales managers an overall picture of what is happening into sales more...
     
    Marketing Planning and BudgetingSAP Component or Feature Available

    Combines and coordinates all initiatives and resources across the organization to condense planning and development cycles, while ensuring that this streamlined process still adheres closely to the Business Process. Reduces planning costs.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Marketing (SAP CRM)
  • SAP Sales Management (SAP CRM)
  • SAP Service Management (SAP CRM)
  • SAP Service Operations Planning & Execution for IM&C
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    Campaign PlanningSAP Component or Feature Available
    Analyzes campaign data and predict what the outcome of your campaigns would be under certain circumstances.



     
    Campaign DevelopmentSAP Component or Feature Available
    Creates marketing campaigns using a visual tool for easier design of complex campaigns.
     
    SegmentationSAP Component or Feature Available

    Segmentation preparation is a process that is generally performed by the database manager. This forms the foundation for business partner segmentation in the Segment Builder (that is all required attributes are created with the corresponding attribute values and data sources).

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Marketing (SAP CRM)
  • SAP Sales Management (SAP CRM)
  • SAP Service Management (SAP CRM)
  • SAP Service Operations Planning & Execution for IM&C
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    Campaign ExecutionSAP Component or Feature Available
    The campaign can be sent to one of the various channels for execution.
     
    Campaign AnalysisSAP Component or Feature Available

    Validates, measures, and allows refinement of campaigns to maximize effectiveness through monitoring analysis, available during and after execution.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Marketing (SAP CRM)
  • SAP Sales Management (SAP CRM)
  • SAP Service Management (SAP CRM)
  • SAP Service Operations Planning & Execution for IM&C
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    Lead ProcessingSAP Component or Feature Available

    This process enables manual and automatic qualification of leads to set the lead qualification level. Lead processing also includes the creation of a business transaction, such as an opportunity, from a lead.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Marketing (SAP CRM)
  • SAP Sales Management (SAP CRM)
  • SAP Service Management (SAP CRM)
  • SAP Service Operations Planning & Execution for IM&C
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    Lead AnalysisSAP Component or Feature Available
    Analyzes the success, efficiency, and processing over time of  leads.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP Marketing (SAP CRM)
  • SAP NetWeaver
  • SAP Sales Management (SAP CRM)
  • SAP Service Management (SAP CRM)
  • SAP Service Operations Planning & Execution for IM&C
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