The Weird Truth As To Why Increasing Sales Starts With Operations (Helping Your Ops Teams & Sales Reps Is Well Worth The Effort)

When your sales force is effective and efficient you will sell more.

A truly collaborative operations team is key to driving better sales processes.

Sales reps are the foundation of the medical device industry. They own the relationships. They are the spark that drives the entire engine. Helping them to do their job better will drive growth.

Cold Hard Truth:

In the medical device world, increasing the effectiveness of your sales force starts with better operations.

Here is how you help operations help sales:

Give them true visibility. (product search, shipments, sales data, case status, account info, inventory status)
Provide an integrated (ERP/CRM) tool that allows them to perform all their work. (scheduling, field inventory transfers, allocation, receiving, verifying, ordering, scanning, usage, replenishments, billing, POs)
Let them have HIPAA compliant messaging & communication. (eliminate email, texting, most phone calls)

Right now, most organizations leverage the reps for operational work because they really don’t see any other option. The rep owns the relationships. The rep is at the case. The rep manages everything. This is good and needed. Yet the transparency is not there and thus without team-wide visibility to everything that is happening, inefficiencies are created.

In order to build trust between operations and sales, first, give everyone the right tools to do their jobs well. Operations need to be on the same page as sales reps. Everyone needs to be on the same calendar. Operations need the ability to view all current inventory real-time. They need to see all kits, all trays, all loose pieces and then be able to allocate those as needed. When operations can do their job better, sales begin to develop trust.

When trust is created, better processes will develop.

The Foundation Sales Built

The more time sales reps spend doing administrative work, the less effective they will be.

The more time sales reps spend doing operational work, the less effective they will be.

The reps are expected to do everything. They handle it, whatever it is.

Yet, they are not given the right tools and forced to use processes that were created by well-intentioned, but out of touch, operations teams. These processes are being shoved down sales reps throats and are not getting adopted. Compliance is low, visibility is poor, and miscommunication is rampant.

Sales reps need to be able to do all of their work in one simple to use app.

Here is how you help sales reps sell more: (…same as helping ops!)

Give them true visibility. (product search, shipments, sales data, case status, account info, inventory status)
Provide an integrated (ERP/CRM) tool that allows them to perform all their work. (scheduling, field inventory transfers, ordering, scanning, usage, replenishments, billing, POs)
Let them have HIPAA compliant messaging & communication. (eliminate email, texting, most phone calls)

When you do this you will reduce the busy work they have, eliminate unneeded tools, give them clarity, help them focus, and provide the visibility they crave.

Easy To Use Tools = Better Behavior

And better behavior means better, relevant, and more actionable data for operations, planning, marketing, forecasting, and manufacturing.

It is all about sales force effectiveness.

Everyone knows you can’t force sales reps to change behavior. But if you help them, truly make their life easier, you can get them to adopt new ways of doing business.

Just like with your clients, if you show love to your reps, they will love you back.

When your reps have a tool that frees up their time, they will sell more.

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Contact us: 858.956.0219 or info@movemedical.com

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A good field inventory solution is worth its weight in gold, a fully integrated medical device specific operations and sales force effectiveness platform is priceless.

A complete tool should be able to or have:

Surgery Scheduling (+ Calendar)
Surgeon Preferences / Preference Cards
CRM / Case & Opportunity Management
Inventory Control & Visibility (All Locations, All Buckets)
Active Order Visibility
Opportunity/Lead Management
Customer/Account Management
Sales Metrics / Data (Reps, Leaders, Corporate)
Shipping Coordination (FedEx, UPS Integration)
Directed Picking & Put-away (Bin Mapped)
Auto Product Replenishment
Commission Calculations
Expiration Notifications
Direct Orders
Send & Receive Tools (Rep to Rep etc., field transfers)
Contract & List Pricing (Real-time)
Audit/Cycle Counts
Reporting & Billing
Image & File Sharing
Secure HIPAA Compliant Communication
Mobile Usage Capture
UDI Compliance
Barcode Scanning
RFID Integration & RFID Reconciling (HF/UHF)
ERP/CRM/EMR Integrations
Demand Planning Tools
Consignment/Loaner Management
Pluggable Workflows (Programmatic Integrations, Integrated Prediction Models)
Sourcing Matrix Tool
HIPAA Compliant Communication Platform (Messages, Calendar, Usage, Notes, Files)
Sourcing Optimization
Future Stock (Virtual Inventory Assigned to Future Events)
Atomic Inventory (UDI Ready, Piece Level Tracking, Serialized or Not)
Hybrid Kitting (Skinny Kits, Kit Management, Kit Versioning, Tracking)
Cross Boundary Workflows
Lost & Found (Automatic Cycle Counting )
Merger/Acquisition Integration
Par Management
Multi-Catalog Management
Loan Optimization (1 Loan Per Day)
Separate or Combined Sales & Operations Alignment
Cost-to-Serve Metrics
Turn Ratio Dashboards