Artificial Intelligence in SAP R3, ECC and HANA
The differences between SAP R3 and S4 HANA - and how SAP automates pricing.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly developing field that has the potential to revolutionise B2B sales. One of the companies at the forefront of AI adoption is SAP, a global software corporation that provides enterprise software (ERP) to manage business operations and customer relations.
In this blog post, we will explore the role of AI in SAP's products and services and discuss how the company uses AI to automate pricing and sales analytics.
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KPI Examples: The Key Performance Indicators that every B2B sales manager should use.
From lagging and leading Sales KPI to Predictive Analytics. Measure what your sales team is doing to be successful.
Why are sales KPIs so important in B2B? Sales leaders can hardly change the way their customers buy, but they can certainly influence the way their team works. This is accomplished with the help of actionable metrics and key performance indicators.
Implement Artificial Intelligence Today with the New Release of the Qymatix Predictive Sales Software
Karlsruhe, 24.11.2022. Qymatix Solutions GmbH has been helping manufacturers and wholesalers to increase customer lifetime value using artificial intelligence and predictive sales analytics since 2013.
Qymatix Solutions GmbH is launching a new version of its Predictive Sales Software (Software-as-a-Service). It is based on the latest research on the topics: Predictive Analytics for CRM systems, Advanced ERP Data Mining and Machine Learning for precise predictions. In summary, in the latest version of the software, the user experience is significantly optimized and the accuracy of the predictive models for B2B sales is more precise. Through which features these optimizations were made, the Qymatix development team describes as follows:
Pricing Analysis in Excel: Make A Price Corridor in Three Simple Steps
This article describes a step-by-step introduction to price corridor analysis with Excel.
You will learn the meaning of a price corridor and how to create a price corridor in Excel from a list of sales transactions in your ERP system.
Let us disclosure that our software uses AI-based data mining methods to present a B2B pricing strategy to Key Account Managers. Based on these data mining algorithms and techniques, we would like to discuss how any sales representative can create a price corridor for predictive analysis using Excel.
Define and reduce customer attrition in the subscription industry
What is customer attrition in the subscription industry?
What is an average churn rate? B2B companies can expect an average annual customer churn rate of around 11%, a recent study found.
This cancellation rate fluctuates between countries and industries. Customer attrition can represent a 24 % average in office supplies, 16 % in the insurance industry and 13 % in banking.
B2B Digital Transformation in Sales: Facts & Trends
Facts and trends about the B2B digital transformation.
If you are leading a Business-to-Business manufacturer or distributor, you know it already: sales is currently experiencing a massive transformation across the globe.
Advancement in artificial intelligence technologies of the last five years is providing manufacturing businesses and distributors with new exciting potential.
According to McKinsey, companies now have at their disposal a set of powerful technological tools that are, when properly implemented, able to guarantee future growth:
The History and Downfall of a German Wholesale Company "Wollschläger" - Part 4
It continues with the last part of the story and the downfall of the wholesale company "Wollschläger". What can wholesale companies learn from this? Click here, if you have not read part 3 yet.
The history of Sanistål dates back to the mid-19th century when several Danish metal entrepreneurs joined forces through a series of mergers.
In 1853, A. Schjøth started his business in Vejle. Twelve years later, L.S. Lange started selling castings in Aalborg. He would later take over Schjøth’s business.
The History and Downfall of a German Wholesale Company "Wollschläger" - Part 3
It continues with part 3 of the story and the downfall of the wholesale company "Wollschläger". What can wholesale companies learn from this? Click here, if you have not read part 2 yet.
As a company grows, integration, coordination, and profitability become critical. As a company grows, integration, coordination, and profitability become critical. You can sell more, and more, and more. If you are selling at a loss, you will soon run out of cash. Nonetheless, running out of money did not seem to be a problem in 2013 for Wollschläger.
Carsten Wollschläger, son of Frank, declared his family business “a real solid one”. And the past two decades seemed to prove him right. The Wollschläger group was 2013 a respected company in the Ruhr region and nationally.
The History and Downfall of a German Wholesale Company "Wollschläger" - Part 2
It continues with part 2 of the story and the downfall of the wholesale company "Wollschläger". What can wholesale companies learn from this? If you have not read part 1 yet, click here.
If acquiring an entire company (Essener Arbeitsschutz GmbH in 2007) was not a complex project already, the introduction of SAP (ERP, EWM, PI and BI) followed in 2009. In the same year, Haberstock left Hamburg for the headquarters in Bochum to work in controlling and in the e-procurement business area, under the name of fuxx4trade.
The Wollschläger Group now had 12 branches throughout Germany and employed over 600 people, including 130 sales field experts.
The History and Downfall of a German Wholesale Company "Wollschläger" - Part 1
How one of the biggest German industrial distributors went down – 79 Years of the Wollschläger Group.
In 1961, a 14-year-old ambitious young individual, Frank, sat alone in a car near an industrial building. He was cold. The region around Bochum is chilly in winter, with temperatures below 5°C on average. Coming from Gdańsk (Danzig in German) two years ago, he was now waiting for his father.
Heinz Wollschläger, was a successful company founder and businessman visiting a new customer. He had founded his company in 1937, before Frank was born, in Danzig, close to the former Poland border. Like many entrepreneurs, his story began in a garage.