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Deployment of Industrial Sales Force
Deployment of Industrial Sales Force
A few words about each will be worth enriching the students. Judgemental Method is said to
have been used when a veteran salesperson has been requested to state the size based on his
or her experience. Such sales person uses a heuristic approach is calculating a volume of
business( in terms of units or volume) based on his experiential learning and then opinionates
the number of sales people to be required. The ‘Incremental Method’ the approach states that
the total business market is fixed for any territories are fixation of additional sales person should
be viable as long as incremental profit flows. The point at which the incremental profit becomes
negative the recruitment of salesperson should be stopped. The incremental profit is the
concept of marginal profit (marginal revenuemarginal cost). This method is applicable in a
trading unit or trading situation which is existing. ‘Sales Potential Method’ deliberates that on an
average a sales person is able have a certain productivity and this when has to address the
total potential of sales considering the sales force turnover will state the size actually required.