SAPPI FOREST PRODUCTS
Sappi Craft (Pty) Ltd.
Dear Bill,
There are some activities I would like to confirm with you
prior to our closing this year.
The work we have been doing to change the behaviour of our
marketers from order takers to relationship builders has been
showing real signs of success, and I feel strongly that we
need to keep up the programme into the new year. Currently
we have implemented around sixty percent of the "Complete
Sales Action System", with the balance to be completed
in the first few months of 2001.
The main justification for using the programme is the ability
to operationalise the activities, for a fully integrated customer
relationship management approach. In our industrial markets,
the face to face component of relationship building is critical,
and a high level of discipline is required in servicing the
customers.
After four meetings with Pivotal, and seeing the first signs
of some customisation to Sappi's requirements, I am very excited
with the product. It will enable us to combine the 'Complete
Action Sales System" and "Managing Complex Business
Relationship
System'", and enable the company electronically. Once
we have achieved this, I believe we will have the most comprehensive
CRM system in the world with the correct human behaviour behind
it. (Thanks to the adding of your two systems to Pivotal's
e-commerce CRM platform your systems provide the best in selling
and servicing behaviours. A CRM platform is only as good as
the business behaviours of the organisation.)
Therefore I would like to confirm that we complete the training
early in the New Year, and perhaps lock at regular refresher
sessions to keep the programme active.
Judi N Sandrock
Knowledge Manager - Sappi Forest Products
PS: We look forward to your new direction for 2001 of "productising"
your present video and paper based system into a dot.com sales
and CRM coach for individual sales people, marketers, managers
and executives.