How do Principals Evaluate Distributor Performance?
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Principal Relationship with Distributor
Distributors are responsible to disperse products to areas that are more easily accessible to consumers. Unlike principals who are responsible for producing the highest quality products and creating product branding, distributors, in addition to maintaining product quality and branding, must also ensure product availability and visibility in the market.
Principal’s Concerns about Distributors
To become a superior product in the market, principals must work with distributors who are also superior. If the distributor’s performance suddenly declines, the principal must analyze the cause.
1. Distributor does not reach the KPI target that has been determined.
It could be that the newly opened outlets do not increase while the outlets that are still active reduce orders or don’t even order products anymore.
2. Distributors prioritize products from other principals
Some principals partner with distributors who also take goods from other principals (non-exclusive distributors). Some distributors may end up switching to other brands if your product prices are less competitive, lack of promotions, are rarely offered by salesmen, or even not maintaining a close relationship with you.
Advotics Distributor Performance Monitoring
In addition to storing information in the form of a distributor name, distribution zone, status (active/inactive), the Advotics Distribution Management System (DMS) can make it easier for principals to monitor distributor performance with custom target parameters.
- Workgroup Distribution Zone: Distribution zones for each distributor in the form of maps that make it easier for principals to monitor coverage areas and which areas are performing well or not.
- Value Transaction: Total transaction value in each distributor, either rejected or approved.
- Order Status: Total transactions in each distributor based on their transaction status.
- Store List: List of stores/customers that have transactional relationships with distributors.
- KPI Performance: Achievement of distributors’ KPI with custom parameters
Customer Activity Insights from Each Distributor
Principal can also see the performance and activities of each distributor’s customers. Starting from the 10 best SKUs, activities (receipt scans, planograms, service tickets, QR scans, redemptions, project creations, sales orders), to overall performance (transactions, activities, redemptions).
Read more: Management Report System for Distributors and Principals
