


Distribution Study

combining your CRM and ERP
data with easy-to-build
data visualizations




Third-Party Applications Using
SMP’s Robust APIs

of one more sales call
in an additional $8,000 to $16,000 per rep per month.




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CEOs Love SMP?

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CRM, BI and proactive marketing integrated to your ERP system to help you grow your top-line. Proactively manage your sales process, execute integrated marketing, deliver self-serve dashboards and close more sales.
SMP’s Data Visualization Powered by Qlik®
Imagine an analytics tool so intuitive, anyone in your company could easily create dynamic dashboards to explore vast amounts of data and find meaningful insights. That’s SMP’s new data visualization solution powered by Qlik — a revolutionary self-service data visualization and discovery application designed for individuals, groups and organizations.

Finding opportunities for growth in a changing industry
As a distribution executive, you must constantly be on the lookout for new opportunities for growth or face revenue erosion from new competitors and online sources. The best place to find new growth is by increasing your sales and marketing effectiveness.
“We’re already up 23% year-to date… I directly attribute this to SMP!”

Bryan Stewart
Vice President of Sales
Read our new report based on the results of our distribution focus groups, highlighting the methods distribution sales and marketing leaders are to gain deeper insights, build stronger relationships, serve their customers and improve their marketing effectiveness.
How We Help
Supporting Sales Leaders with Data Visualization
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SMP Customer: Wave Electronics
CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT

Highly effective distribution sales teams run SMP
As a sales leader, you are always looking for ways to improve your team’s productivity, opportunity management and forecasting capabilities. With SMP, your team spends more time selling and less time on non-productive tasks.
“The reps are using it so much more now that they’re able to see all the reporting capabilities and benefits based on the data they’ve entered into SMP.”

Mike Whalen
Executive Vice President
This SMP Green Paper was written for those sales and marketing leaders who not only want to create new sales and drive revenue, but also want to raise their game to executive-level standards.
How We Help
Building a Solid Sales Follow-Up Process
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SMP Customer: eDist
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SMP helps you out-compete the field.
Marketing teams at most distribution firms never have enough resources. There seem to be endless opportunities that sales reps and vendors want to take advantage of, but a very limited supply of marketing funds and staff. SMP makes life a little easier for distribution marketing teams.
“They’ve made the implementation of SMP easy – almost TOO easy!”

Greg Smith
Vice President of Marketing
This report will show you how a distribution-specific CRM system can help you manage information about your competition so that you can quickly and easily identify the customers your competitors serve so that you can begin chipping away at their market share.
How We Help
Five Reasons Distribution CMOs Love SMP
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Granite City Electric Supply Company
CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT

Provide reports, BI, tighter ERP integrations, and mobile access
As a fully cloud-based solution, SMP gives your sales and marketing teams what they need without burdening our IT team.
“We could tell from the get-go this was going to be a great thing for us. It was almost a no-brainer to run with SMP.”

Mark Michels
Vice President of Operations
Read why Robertson Supply calls SMP a “no-brainer.” IT teams love how cloud technology, SaaS software, tight ERP integrations and self-serve analytics and BI make SMP so easy to work with.
How We Help
Picking the Right CRM Partner
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The Role of IT in Process Improvement
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Distribution Sales Trends
Based on the results of our recent focus groups, this report shares the methods that sales and marketing leaders are planning to use in 2017 to gain deeper insights, build stronger relationships, serve their customers and improve their marketing effectiveness. This extensive 27-page report covers issues including:
- Distribution top sales priorities for 2017
- Sales management challenges leaders worry about
- Strategies for mobile tools
- Using business intelligence to find new opportunities
- Closing more bids and quotes
Recent Distribution Sales and Marketing Posts