SFA Fundamentals
Core concepts, mechanics, and category boundaries of Sales Force Automation software - what SFA is, how it works, and what it is not.
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SFA Basics
What SFA is, what good looks like and why rollouts fail.
Field Sales Concepts
The building blocks of route-to-market selling.
Metrics and KPIs
The numbers field sales teams are run on, defined.
- What Is a Strike Rate
- What Is Order Capture Rate
- What Is Drop Size
- What Is Lines per Call
- What Is Cross-Sell Ratio
- What Is Numeric vs Weighted Distribution
- What Is Must-Sell Distribution
- What Is Shelf Share
- What Is Planogram Compliance
- What Is a Perfect Store Score
- What Is Trade Promotion ROI
- What Are Active and Inactive Outlets
- What Is a Retailer Engagement Score
- What Is Lead Conversion Rate
- What Is First-Call Resolution
- What Is a Sales Productivity Index
- What Is Sales per Rep
How SFA Works
Under the hood: how SFA handles each part of the field sales day.
- How Does SFA Handle Offline Mode
- How Does Beat Optimization Work
- How Does SFA Integrate with ERP
- How Does SFA Track Secondary Sales
- How Does Territory Management Work
- How Does SFA Handle Returns
- How Does SFA Track Scheme Compliance
- How Does Retail Audit Work in SFA
- How Does SFA Calculate Coverage Rate
- How Does Distributor Performance Tracking Work
- How Does SFA Handle Multi-SKU Orders
- How Does SFA Track Planogram Compliance
- How Does SFA Manage Product Launches
- How Does SFA Handle Expense Tracking
- How Does SFA Track Competitor Activity
- How Does SFA Handle Target Assignment
- How Does SFA Support Van Sales
- How Does SFA Handle Seasonal Patterns
- How Does SFA Support New Outlet Onboarding
- How Does SFA Generate Forecasts
SFA vs Other Software
Tools that get mistaken for SFA, and where the line sits.