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What is Customer Relationship Management?

Customer relationship management (CRM) includes the practices and strategies that companies utilize throughout the customer lifecycle. Companies interact with customers in a variety of ways — sales, marketing, and customer service — with the intent to retain the relationship and increase sales growth opportunities.

Technology plays a critical role in CRM initiatives. Insights from data and analytics provide a myriad of opportunities to enhance customer relationships.

Key benefits of CRM systems include:

  • Improved customer experience
  • Increased customer retention
  • Higher sales revenue
  • Greater process efficiency

Key Considerations for SAPinsiders

What is Customer Relationship Management?

Customer relationship management (CRM) includes the practices and strategies that companies utilize throughout the customer lifecycle. Companies interact with customers in a variety of ways — sales, marketing, and customer service — with the intent to retain the relationship and increase sales growth opportunities.

Technology plays a critical role in CRM initiatives. Insights from data and analytics provide a myriad of opportunities to enhance customer relationships.

Key benefits of CRM systems include:

  • Improved customer experience
  • Increased customer retention
  • Higher sales revenue
  • Greater process efficiency

Key Considerations for SAPinsiders

  • Ensure your SAP CRM system has clean data and is updated. When sales opportunities arise, they are entered into SAP CRM, initiating the beginning of the sales cycle phase. Customers may be at different phases, such as learning about the company’s products or in the decision-making phase of selecting a vendor.

John Burton, Director of Product Management at SAP, and William Pritchett from Dow Corning Corporation, share their insights about SAP CRM sales stages and keeping records updated. “The value in the Sales Stage field is used to indicate the current phase in the buying cycle. This field can also be used to indicate automatic closure of opportunities that have not been updated within a specified period,” they write. Read the full article to learn how to keep SAP CRM opportunities clean.

  • Integrate SAP CRM and SAP ERP projects successfully to assure data synchronization. When replicating data between SAP CRM and SAP ERP, there are several critical decisions and enhancements required to ensure optimal system performance post integration. Don’t underestimate time-tested techniques and strategies that lead to seamless integration.

Allen Roholt, SAP Consultant at ECENTA, answers questions about how to apply these proven techniques that drive enhanced user experience. Such user experience “encompasses comprehensive visibility into the data they interact with, as well as seamless transference of data between systems, allowing for sales and services processes to flow uninterrupted.” ﷟HYPERLINK “https://masteringsap.com/optimizing-sap-crm-and-sap-erp-integration-qa-on-improving-data-transfer-user-experience-and-customer-service/”Read the full article to learn more about customer engagement and commerce integration projects.  the full article to learn more about customer engagement and commerce integration projects.

  • Leverage the sales features that exist within SAP CRM. Adapting the standard sales functionality of SAP CRM could lead to missed opportunities that support the specific needs of key accounts.

Dr. Ahmed Hezzah, Senior Manager at Accenture, provides his insights on implementing a key account management solution for a global organization that leverages the sales features already available in SAP CRM. He answers “marketing and sales questions on implementing effective campaign execution and lead generation processes across marketing and sales within SAP CRM to identify and close more sales opportunities, enhance key account processes, and support lead qualification and routing processes.” Readthe full article to glean Dr. Hezzah’s strategies.

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  1. SAP CEO Bill McDermott Kicks Off SAPPHIRE NOW 2018 by Announcing SAP C/4HANA

    Published: 05/June/2018

    Reading time: 3 mins

    SAP CEO Bill McDermott kicked off his SAPPHIRE NOW 2018 keynote discussing a simple, yet significant concept: The biggest problems the world faces also represent the biggest opportunities. Whether it’s feeding a growing population, managing a changing environment, or eliminating bias in the workforce, McDermott stated that these problems are best solved by businesses that…

  2. Sealed Air Packages an Improved Customer Experience

    Published: 16/March/2017

    Reading time: 8 mins

    As producers of packaging materials, Sealed Air – the inventors of Bubble Wrap – helps organizations deliver products to their customers. Recently, Sealed Air has been focusing much of its energy on delivering better service to its own customers, embarking on a project to realign its customer service processes to new demands. This change, driven…

  3. SAP Customers of All Sizes Can Mine Digital Insights

    Published: 09/March/2017

    Reading time: 5 mins

    What if you could determine the ideal place and time to advertise to your customers that would have the greatest impact on your marketing efforts? In today’s digital economy, marketing campaigns can become even more targeted when leveraging SAP Digital Consumer Insight, SAP’s cloud-based platform that provides mobile data to track movement patterns of a…

  4. Techniques to Optimize Marketing Lead Management and Key Account Management Processes within SAP CRM

    Published: 01/February/2017

    Reading time: 19 mins

    In sales, key account managers often struggle when trying to manage their key accounts and end up adapting standard sales functionality of SAP CRM to efficiently support their very individual needs for navigation, authorization, and reporting of their key account hierarchy. By understanding those challenges and following a comprehensive step-by-step approach, you can implement a…

  5. Optimizing SAP CRM and SAP ERP Integration: Q&A on Improving Data Transfer, User Experience, and Customer Service

    Published: 01/February/2017

    Reading time: 30 mins

    Many customer engagement and commerce integration projects that involve CRM middleware for SAP CRM Sales, SAP CRM Service Manager, and SAP Hybris Billing solutions face a number of challenges including variations in the SAP CRM and SAP ERP data models. Every integration project needs to ensure that the data being replicated is always in sync and…

  6. Seven guiding principles for a successful SAP Cloud for Customer implementation

    Prevent common mistakes and avoid the pitfalls that can occur on a CRM cloud journey with these seven jewels of CRM wisdom. Based on real-life SAP Cloud for Customer implementations, these principles impart: The importance of a results-oriented approach to defining a project as illustrated by a walk-though of an “Impact Case” methodology Ways to…

  7. Live from SAPinsider Studio: Volker Hildebrand on Going Beyond CRM

    Volker Hildebrand, Global VP of Customer Engagement and Commerce at SAP Hybris, joins SAPinsider Studio at CRM 2016 to discuss how digital disruptions and evolving technologies are pushing businesses to move beyond traditional CRM practices. Natalie Miller, SAPinsider: Hi, I’m Natalie Miller with SAPinsider, and we’re here at the SCM, CRM, and IoT event in…

  8. Live from SAPinsider Studio: SAP Jam Collaboration and the Empowered Sales Executive

    Jeff Gan, Product Manager, SAP Jam Collaboration, joins SAPinsider Studio at the SAPinsider SCM-CRM 2016 event to discuss SAP Jam and offer insight into how organizations can better connect with employees to drive business results. This is an edited transcript of the discussion: Natalie Miller, SAPinsider:  Hi, I’m Natalie Miller with SAP insider, and we’re…

  9. Surviving and Thriving in a Digital Economy

    Speaking live from Las Vegas, SAP’s Dr. Volker G. Hildebrand, Global Vice President, Customer Engagement and Commerce, and Hans Thalbauer, Senior Vice President, Extended Supply Chain Solutions, discussed the trends and technology driving digital transformation and SAP’s strategy for moving beyond traditional CRM and digitizing the supply chain. Using real-life examples, including Alibaba.com, Uber, and…