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Papers and articles

Alliance Management and KAM: mirror images

Supplier alliance management and key account management have converged over the last 20 years and are now closely connected. Mike Nevin’s case studies demonstrate the very substantial value that can come from working with the ecosystem – beyond traditional, two-party buyer-seller pairings. His 52 best practices in strategic alliances is a great checklist that applies…

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Podcasts

Strategic key account plans: Why aren’t they better?

This podcast addresses the crucial question of ‘Why are strategic key account plans often so awful?’ Experienced KAM consultants Paul Wilson and Diana Woodburn demonstrate how critical these plans are to KAM success through their discussion of what these plans should contain and how they should be used. They collect together the ideas for development…

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Webinar

How to build winning relationships with Procurement.

Jens Hentschel represents the Procurement side of the KAM relationship. Having worked in the role for over 15 years, he is clear about what key customers expect – and it’s different from what most suppliers think. Did you know that Procurement assesses you constantly on your level of customer-centricity? In fact, they actually evaluate you…

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Papers and articles

A case in collaboration: KAM EMCOR UK

When EMCOR UK’s Facilities Management division decided its future lay in longer contracts with larger clients, it reckoned that collaboration would be the USP to capture it. Collaboration isn’t just a mindset, it’s a process as well, and collaboration and KAM have to be more than ‘skin deep’, says Steve Dolan, EMCOR UK’s Operations Director…

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Papers and articles

Championing KAM – Interview with Cyryl Pryzbyl, Vetoquinol’s KAM leader

Vetoquinol’s KAM journey, like most companies’, has taken time. After the launch, things slowed down as people realised the scale of the change required: it was going to take more time, money and resource than they had ever imagined. In this interview, Cyryl Pryzbyl talks about the common issues he discovered and overcame, which will be…

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Papers and articles

Customer relationship management: engagement or exploitation

David Hawkins of the Institute of Collaborative Working charts the evolution of buyer/supplier relationships. Collaborative relationships can be multidimensional, supporting traditional engagement through supply chains, creation of external alliances and, in many cases, facilitating improved internal collaboration. He shows an 8-stage process linked to BS 11000, the world’s first collaborative business relationships standard developed from pan-industry best practice.

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Video Views

Creating value through partnership

Tyrone Morris (Client Managing Director, Xerox Corporation) explains the importance of partnering with clients and gaining an awareness of the whole company before entering the Procurement process. Having a best-in-class bid team only works if it wins, and the chances of winning are hugely reduced if there’s no closeness with the customer by the time the bid is out.

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Webinar

Vested relational contracts

Vested is a sourcing business model used by organisations such as Dell, BP, Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble to build long-term partnerships with strategic suppliers based on a What’s In It For We?-mindset. The vested model is based on research at the University of Tennessee on successful partnership across a number of industries.…

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Webinar

Strategic partnership conversations: from supplier-customer to partnership

It’s hard to develop the business if your conversations with key customers are stuck at the sales/operations level. In this webinar, Dr Régis Lemmens explains how to develop an understanding of customer facts into real meaning that can drive a vision of what might be. You have probably taken all the available shortcuts to results…

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AKAM Workshops & Conferences

Key Customer Relationships

Andrea Dori’s industry has also changed out of all recognition in the last few years. At one time, Illycaffè simply sold excellent coffee, but now, in addition to having extended its product and brand range, the company sees itself as participating in the hospitality industry. Whereas once it sold on the basis of quality, consistency…

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