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Webinar
Integrating Functions Through KAM
This webinar will explore your role as a relationship manager in the supply chain. You need to be an orchestrator of your company’s functions to meet the range of customer demands that add value to their business! That may involve your supply chain operations, procurement, returns management, accounting – even third parties.  Simon Templar…
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AKAM News
Announcing the winner of Key Account Manager of the Year, 2022
Congratulations to Sandro Bordalo Clos!! This Award is designed to highlight the great work that key account managers do for their customers and their own
Papers and articles
KAM: Selling? Providing services? Or both?
In this paper the well-known Professors Bjoern Ivens, Barbara Niersbach and Catharine Pardo explain the fundamental role of service in KAM. Their research developed a model of four types of service in which key account managers should be engaged in delivering to their internal and external networks: interaction, individualization, information and integration. This important finding…
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Video Views
Executive sponsorship
The automotive sector is so highly concentrated that excellent KAM is essential, not an option. So perhaps it’s not surprising that Thierry Josselin of Axcelis (AKAM Key Account Manager of the Year 2021) has ample experience of the great executive sponsorship which so many other companies fail to enact. In this short video he itemises…
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Buyers/ buying
How to avoid procurement and why it might be a bad idea to do so
Suppliers are often keen to avoid Procurement and work directly with the ‘real customer’. Maybe you find dealing with Procurement bruising and unpleasant? Do you feel forced to give away more than you planned? If so, you may conclude that avoiding Procurement is going to work out better for you. But Jens Hentschel of Fivis…
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Webinar
Operational KAM is easy, alignment is not!
In this webinar, Cedric Roesler shares what he found about the current issues with KAM implementation. Through identifying the problems he’ll show a path through the ‘undergrowth’ that leads to success. KAM partnership operational roll-out is not a major difficulty any more, however… Internal alignment needs to be regularly assessed and monitored External alignment between partners…
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