Allocating Field Territories: Why and How?
Here’s what you don’t want: unnecessary travel costs, concentrated efforts in areas with low returns, or a lack of attention on your highest revenue-generating clients. Andris Zoltners of Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management estimated that sales-productivity costs including territory re-alignment in America totaled $500 billion per year. Such costs caused by inefficient practices can be avoided with the right tools and methods..