Some business relationships are simple, as simple as selling tins of beans directly to a corner shop. Some are more complex, involving a myriad of routes of supply to the ultimate user. For example, my business involves supplying electrification, automation and digitalization products to industrial companies. It has an extremely convoluted supply chain involving distributors, value-added resellers, contractors and others.
Do simple transactional business relationships need KAM, however big they are? I think not, I believe this is where account-based marketing (ABM) and e-commerce fits the customer need and saves cost for the supplier.
Where supply is complex, and where relationships are needed throughout the supply chain, especially with ...
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