SALES MANAGEMENT REPORT
TERRITORY MANAGEMENT AT YOUNG’ YOUNG ’S FOODS
SUBMITTED TO: Mr. Saeed Ur Rahman Instructor, Sales Management IoBM, Institute of Business Management
SUBMITTED BY: Omer Mohammad Khan – 9809 Hafiz Owais Syed Bilal Abir Haider Wajahat Ali
April 23, 2012
TERRITORY MANAGEMENT AT YOUNG’S FOODS
Table of Contents LETTER OF AUTHORIZATION ......................................................................................................................... 3 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL ............................................................................................................................. 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ................................................................................................................................... 5 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................. 6 CORPORATE PHILOSPHY ........................................................................................................................... 6 CORE VALUES ............................................................................................................................................ 6 VISION ....................................................................................................................................................... 6 MISSION STATEMENT ............................................................................................................................... 6 TERRITORY MANAGEMNT AT YOUNG’S FOODS ........................................................................................... 7 1.
Direct Modern Trade (DMT): ............................................................................................................ 7
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Local Modern Trade (LMT): ............................................................................................................... 7
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General Trade (GT): ........................................................................................................................... 7
SALES HIERARCHY ......................................................................................................................................... 8 BASIS FOR TERRITORY DESIGN ...................................................................................................................... 9 GEOGRAPHICAL TERRITORIES: .................................................................................................................. 9 TERRITORY DIVISION IN SOUTH ZONE: ................................................................................................... 10 Servicing Required + Geographic: ....................................................................................................... 10 CHANNEL HEADS ..................................................................................................................................... 11 METHODS OF DESIGNING TERRITORIES ..................................................................................................... 11 METHODS FOR ROUTING ............................................................................................................................ 12 FORECASTING OF SALES .............................................................................................................................. 12 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION ..................................................................................................................... 13 CRITICAL ANALYSIS ...................................................................................................................................... 14 QUESTIONAIRRE .......................................................................................................................................... 15
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LETTER OF AUTHORIZATION
April 23, 2012
Dear Readers,
As students of BBA Honors; Mr.Saeed Ur Rahman – Course Instructor for Sales Management has authorized us to prepare a report on the “Territory Management at Young s foods”. The requirement is to conduct a primary research based on interview with the RSM or ASM at any FMCG to inquire the basic practices of territory management that are being implemented in the organization. ’
This research is conducted by an interview with the Area Sales Manager of Young’s Foods.
The report is required to be submitted on April 23, 2012.
Sincerely,
Omer Mohammad Khan Hafiz Owais Syed Bilal Abir Haider Wajahat Ali
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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
April 23, 2012
Mr. Saeed Ur Rahman Professor, Sales Management Institute of Business Management
Dear Sir, Here is the report, authorized on Territory Management at Young’s food. In this report we have come up with an introduction about Young’s foods followed by the details about the territory management, sales hierarchy, territory division and different methods and procedures that Young’s foods uses to manage its territories. The research focuses on the main practices of territory management that are followed at Young’s foods and also a critical analysis of their practices and recommendation as to what
could be done to improve the territory management at Young’s foods.
I hope that this report is helpful in your assessment of Territory Management in FMCG Industry. This research paper conveys our feelings about the subject, and we have researched the topic to the best of our abilities. For any further queries contact us at 03212015101 or email us at
[email protected].
Sincerely,
Omer Mohammad Khan Hafiz Owais Syed Bilal Abir Haider Wajahat Ali
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would first like to thank Almighty Allah for giving me the strength and endowing me with the privilege of completing our term report on the topic of “Territory Management at Young s ’
foods”.
I am also extremely thankful to my mentor and guide Mr. Saeed Ur Rahman whose help, suggestions and encouragement helped me during the time of research and in the making of this report. I have learnt a lot of new things while preparing this report and found it to be very interesting.
Thank you,
Omer Mohammad Khan Hafiz Owais Syed Bilal Abir Haider Wajahat Ali
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INTRODUCTION The house of Young’s started its operations in 1988 as a food processing establishment.
The first product launched by Young’s was Mayonnaise that received tremendous acceptance and appreciation. Another milestone in spread category is Young’s Chicken Spread; the first ever commercially produced in 1989. This journey of successful launches continued with Sandwich Spread, Chocolate Spread, Olive Spread, Pizza Spread and recently launched Mayo Garlic. Young’s Natural Honey is also playing a significant role in Young’s Family. Today, Young’s enjoys tremendous Brand
Leadership in Mayonnaise and Spreads category through out Pakistan with presence in various global markets.
CORPORATE PHILOSPHY The corporate philosophy of Young’s is based on stronger believe that all the benefits come from the Creator of whole Universe *Allah*. At Young’s, we believe that our organization is responsible to our Creator, our people and our business partners.
CORE VALUES 1. Pleasing Allah 2. Responsive to Stakeholders 3. Mushawrat 4. Excellence 5. Improvement and Innovation
VISION We will, Insha'Allah, be a brand of choice for consumers seeking Halal and Convenient food products in the Global Halal Food Market. We will achieve this vision by continuously giving our customers true value for their money, developing our people, improving the way we work and thus developing a business model of excellence.
MISSION STATEMENT At Young's, our mission is to provide our customers Halal, Hygienic, Healthy, Nutritional, and Convenient food products; through our customer driven and service oriented dynamic team. We strive to do business in accordance with the Islamic Guidance and to develop a business model of excellence.
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TERRITORY MANAGEMNT AT YOUNG’S FOODS Young’s Foods has divided its whole market into 4 channels based on which they distribute
their goods in the market. Territories are formed on the basis of these categories which are mentioned below; each category is assigned to different distributors except for Direct Modern Trade (DMT). 1. Direct Modern Trade (DMT): It includes all the Direct key accounts. e.g- Makro, Metro, Hyperstar etc. It also includes Utility Store Corporation (USC) and Canteen Store Department (CSD) and all those outlets which operate internationally. In DMT, the company directly delivers the good because these are the Direct Key Accounts of the company. Highly experienced sales personnel and mostly the sales managers are the ones who deal with the DMT. 2. Local Modern Trade (LMT): It includes all large key accounts e.g- Naheed, Imtiaz and Chase etc. And all those outlets which operate locally. 3. General Trade (GT): This category includes all small wholesale and retailers, bakeries, medical stores. 4. Food Service Division (FSD): This category includes all hotels, restaurants, hospitals etc. YOUNGS PRIVATE LTD
OUTSOURCED DISTRIBUTION
GENERAL TRADE
DIRECT MODERN TRADE
FOOD SERVICE
LOCAL MODERN
DIVISION
TRADE
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SALES HIERARCHY At Young’s food they follow a vertical chain of command as illustrated below:
CEO
Director
GM
NSM
South zone
Central zone
Lahore zone
Pindi zone
ASM
ASM
Karachi GT
Karachi (DMT,FSD, LMT)
TM
TM
TM
TM
TM
GT1
GT2
GT3
GT4
GT5
TM
TM
TM
DMT
FSD
LMT
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BASIS FOR TERRITORY DESIGN GEOGRAPHICAL TERRITORIES:
At Young’s Foods the territories are divided on geographical basis. Young’s operate all over
Pakistan. The whole country is divided into four zones : South zone which includes Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkhar, Quetta it also caters Baluchistan, Central zone which includes Multan, Faislabad ,lower Punjab, Lahore zone which include Lahore to Jhelum and northern Punjab, Pindi zone which includes Islamabad Peshawar and northern areas of Pakistan .in every zone there are one base station in which at least two territory managers are assigned and many non base stations/outstations.
PAKISTAN
SOUTH ZONE
CENTRAL ZONE
LAHORE ZONE
PINDI ZONE
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TERRITORY DIVISION IN SOUTH ZONE: Servicing Required + Geographic:
In the south zone, Karachi is further divided into eight territories based on the Servicing Required. Each territory has its own territory manager and a distributor. LMT, DMT and FSD are
different territories on the basis of account types While General Trade (GT) is on geographical basis. Each territory manager has Order Bookers and Merchandisers. The job of the Order booker is to take orders, they work like sales reps. While on the other hand the job of the merchandisers is to check and ensure the availability of the product at the outlets. Each order booker has to visit 50 outlets per day on average and 300 outlets per week.
KARACHI (AREA SALES MANAGER)
LMT
OB
DMT
FSD
GT1
GT2
GT3
GT4
GT5
MERCHANDISER
The same pattern of territory division is followed throughout the other zones all over Pakistan.
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CHANNEL HEADS
The Channel heads are the heads of each channel and they work parallel to zonal managers. Their primary job is to provide technical and strategic assistance to zonal managers. For example: trade offers or discount schemes are provided by the Channel Heads. They are at the same hierarchy level as zonal Managers. They report directly to national sales managers. Each channel head their respective provided by national sales manager
GM
NSM
DMT/LMT
GT
FSD
Channel head
Channel head
Channel head
Outstation Channel head
METHODS OF DESIGNING TERRITORIES Young’s food uses a Build up method for designing its territories. The territories are formed by creating
units that provide sufficient sales challenges. Based on that individual volumes are assessed and call frequencies are determined.
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METHODS FOR ROUTING Young’s food uses a Cloverleaf method for routing. In this method a base town is set then its
surrounding areas are covered.
FORECASTING OF SALES Annual sales targets are forecasted by zonal and channel managers based on previous sales trend and market conditions. They set targets for metropolitan, non-metropolitan and outstation areas which are then communicated to national sales manager General manager, national sales manger, brand manager and operation manager develop strategies for the next year sales based on over all market conditions, market share, sales potential, budgets, production capacity, consumer insight and keeping in mind the growth trend as well. These strategies are then conveyed to zonal and channel mangers. The Zonal or channels managers’ sets target for different zones, based of different cities and channels. This target is then communicated to National Sales Manager and General Manager who then covey it to the area manager who then divides the target based on geographically demand of product. National sales manager, general manager and brand managers makes their own target and compare it with the actual target, if the targets match than there is no problem but if the targets do not match then they go back to strategy development step where they plan and evaluate the problem and determine the reason behind it.
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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION Company does performance evaluation on the basis of primary sales and secondary sales. Primary sales are those made by company to the distributor and Secondary sales are those made by the distributor to retailer. Performance evaluation is done in these four ways:
Stock outs (Inventory Turnover): Number of days when distributor runs out of stock.
Order booking v/s execution: how much orders were booked and how much executed properly For Example- If 50 orders were placed and only 40 were executed properly it means that 80% performance were achieved.
Call Productivity: Percentage of outlets who gave order.
Administrative and other evaluation.
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CRITICAL ANALYSIS
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QUESTIONAIRRE 1. On what basis do you territories? Geography? Potential? Servicing required (based on ABCD category)? Or workload (Rural area/urban area)? 2. Which method is used to design territories? Build up method? Break down method? Incremental method? 3. Which routing method is used? Straight line? Cloverleaf? Hopscotch? 4. Number of accounts in each territory? 5. Number of sales calls made to each customer in a month? 6. Time required for each sales call? 7. Frequency of sales call? 8. What type of reporting system? 9. Who does sales rep report to? 10. Who deals key accounts? 11. Who are your major/large accounts? 12. Who forms territories? 13. Is there different credit policy for key accounts? How is it different? 14. Is distribution different for key accounts? How is it different? 15. Is the pricing different for key accounts? How is it different? 16. Is product design different for key accounts? How is it different? 17. Details of territories in Karachi? 18. Who allocates quota for sales rep? 19. Are sales rep provided with Cars / Bikes? 20. Are they given fuel allowance? 21. What other allowances are given? 22. How is evaluation of sales rep performance done? 23. Is there any overlapping of territories? 24. Average Travel time? 25. Non selling time? 26. Return on time invested? 27. Chain of command? 28. Communication channel? 29. Sales automation? 30. Level of authority of sales rep?
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