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Direct sales organizations use thousands of independent sales agents to sell premium home and personal care products. In most cases their products are not sold through standard retail outlets. The sales agents visit households and collect orders for goods. The Mobile Direct Sales System allows them to check for availability of stocks in the warehouse, place orders for items, thereby blocking them, accumulating a “shopping cart” and finally authorizing payment, and all using a simple mobile phone.
Benefits
Benefits to the Sales Agent:
- The agent can spend time in actual selling rather than in the unproductive paper work
- The agent will not have to go through complex interactions and reconciliations with the company when items that have been ordered are not in stock
- The agent will not need to go to the bank and draw up a demand draft for making payments to the company
Benefits to the Company:
- The efficiency of the sales force improves, resulting in increase business volumes
- The company needs to deploy fewer employees for managing interaction with the sales agents
- The order handling process is automated and fits in directly with the company’s Enterprise order processing system
- The payment process is automated.