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Is your organisation in denial about the need to change your approach to important customers? Do you have customers who want KAM from you? Which ones are making signals? Use this short checklist to identify those at the tipping point.
In KAM, as with any other investment, you hope to get a return on what you invest. The converse is also true: if you don’t invest, why should you expect to get a return? Nevertheless, suppliers often seem disappointed in the performance of an account (and the key account manager attached to it) even though…
No companies have unlimited resources, and even if they do, they still consider carefully where to apply their time and money to get the best return. Financial arguments can be and should be applied to key accounts as much as to any other funding decision. This approach shows you how to calculate the Net Present Value (NPV)…
How/does your company fulfil KAM promises? Do you even know? It should come as no surprise that key accounts expect key account managers to understand their own company even better than the customer’s business. What is surprising, though, is how poor is key account managers’ knowledge of their company’s capabilities and ways of working, particularly its processes. This…
Maurice Daw tells how key account management spearheaded Unipart’s strategy to build on its dominant but saturated position in the automotive sector to enter the challenging world of telecoms. Unipart started as a traditional third-party logistics provider with Vodafone and ended up with a unique ten-year contract. The relationship developed from ‘hygiene factor’ to offering…
This case study describes a day in the life of a key account manager that typifies the experience of many in the role. Is Andreas doing a good job? In some respects, yes, but perhaps not entirely. The case provokes valuable discussion on the role and execution of a key account manager’s job, which can…
Zaris is a security company with three strategic business units and five key customers that represent over 20% of its business. The case study outlines the financials and a short portrait of each customer. This poses questions about the selection and categorisation of key customers; customer profitability; allocation of key account managers to key accounts; objectives…
Premium Insurance is an entirely fictitious company, but the situations described will be recognisable to Key Account Managers in many other sectors. Conflict scenarios can be used to explore ideas about what constitutes a conflict and how it should/could be resolved, which is not only useful to facilitate discovery of your personal styles, but also…
Girteka Logistics is a fast-growing trucking company based in the Baltics. How would you deal with a key customer requesting a huge refund on a project that had been completed to their full satisfaction at the time, signed off and paid for afterwards. Not surprisingly, after they made their request, discussions between customer and supplier became extremely emotional,…
The launch of the key account management programme occurred after the company received an RFP from one of their most important customers, which signaled their dissatisfaction and caused shock within the company. The decision by the Board to launch a KAM programme was in direct response to this customer’s defection. Use Wilson and Woodburn’s model…
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