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How KAM worked for Unipart with Vodafone

Maurice Daw tells how key account management spearheaded Unipart’s strategy to build on its dominant but saturated position in the automotive sector to enter the challenging world of telecoms. Unipart started as a traditional third-party logistics provider with Vodafone and ended up with a unique ten-year contract. The relationship developed from ‘hygiene factor’ to offering…

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Focus on key customer differentiation

Zaris is a security company with three strategic business units and five key customers that represent over 20% of its business. The case study outlines the financials and a short portrait of each customer. This poses questions about the selection and categorisation of key customers; customer profitability; allocation of key account managers to key accounts; objectives…

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Conflict scenarios at Premium Insurance

Premium Insurance is an entirely fictitious company, but the situations described will be recognisable to Key Account Managers in many other sectors. Conflict scenarios can be used to explore ideas about what constitutes a conflict and how it should/could be resolved, which is not only useful to facilitate discovery of your personal styles, but also…

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KAM failure in outsourced services

The launch of the key account management programme occurred after the company received an RFP from one of their most important customers, which signaled their dissatisfaction and caused shock within the company. The decision by the Board to launch a KAM programme was in direct response to this customer’s defection. Use Wilson and Woodburn’s model…

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Senior management involvement with key customers: 7 cases

It is often easier to discuss what you think about what other companies are doing to find a way to express and determine the approach you want in your own company. If you have a concern about top management involvement with key customers in your company, whether you are a director or key account manager,…

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Dealing with customer demands (i)

Mini cases | Key accounts are likely to be those developing their business and expanding their horizons. They should be demanding new approaches from their suppliers, but which should you accept and on what terms? These three case studies by Dr Beth Rogers are designed to prepare you and your team by exploring and testing…

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Dealing with customer demands (ii)

Mini cases | Three more case studies by Dr Beth Rogers designed to prepare you and your team by exploring and agreeing your responses before you meet such situations, which will arise sooner or later. Should you accede to the customer’s demands and maintain profitability? Or can you offer alternatives? Use these cases to liven…

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Managing key customers

Mini cases | It’s nonsense to pretend that everything will go well and smoothly all the time, so it’s important to prepare for when things go wrong. These three cases pose a range of problems to deal with – all very real situations. It’s not always your company’s fault, but issues still need to be…

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How DHL implemented a vested outsourcing model for reverse logistics

This substantial presentation is a case study by Ruud de Groot of DHL, explaining how the collaborative approach taken by DHL in EMEA led to the implementation of a vested contract for reverse logistics designed to reward the achievement of specific operational goals. Through this contract DHL explored the use of Intel technology elsewhere in…

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Incomplete contracts

In this short video, Oliver Hart talks about incomplete contracts on behalf of Harvard University and the Royal Economic Society. When contracts deal with transactions that may continue for years ahead, it’s impossible to cover everything. So the critical question is, Who gets to decide on the things that are left out? Somebody has to…

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