UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY International School of Business ------------------------------ Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan POOR KEY ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT OF SALESPEOPLE AT THANH AN – HA NOI MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Ho Chi Minh City – 2019 1 Bảo mật UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY International School of Business ------------------------------ Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan ID: 22170032 – MBus 8.2 POOR KEY ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT OF SALESPEOPLE AT THANH AN – HA NOI MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SUPERVISOR: Assoc. TRAN HA MINH QUAN Ho Chi Minh City – 2019 2 Bảo mật SUPERVISOR’S REPORT ON THE THESIS PROPOSAL SUBMITTED FOR DEGREE OF MASTER of BUSINESS ADMINSTRATION The thesis final title: POOR KEY ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT OF SALESPEOPLE AT THANH AN – HA NOI Student Name: Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan Supervisor: Assoc. Tran Ha Minh Quan 1. General comments Remarks on the student’s attitude:.
Remarks on the assignment’s academic quality:. Overall assessment: Meet requirement for submitting Not meet requirement for submitting 3. Other remarks: - Did the student follow the report schedule? Yes No Other ……………………………… - The Turnitin plagiarism percentage: Supervisor’s signature 3 Bảo mật Table of Contents Executive Summary .5 Chapter 2: Problem identification .2 Initial cause-effect map .3 Updated cause-effect map .4 A discussion to eliminate some potential problems and focus on a central problem. 16 Chapter 3: Problem justification .3 Problem importance and problem consequence.
18 Chapter 4: Causes Validation .1 Causes informed by the theory .2 Action plan the solution. 37 Chapter 7: Supporting information. Ngoc – Sales Supervisor – four of five losing key accounts…………………38 7. Thien – a Salesperson – one of five the failing key account.
Vu – Sales Manager of Spinal Team. 46 2 Bảo mật List of tables Table 4.1: Operationalization of Constructs and Reliability Table 5.2: The incentive policy currently Table 5.3: The compensating policy Table 5.4: The extra suggested compensation 1 Table 5.5: The extra suggested compensation 2 List of figures Figure 2.1: The revenues of three year 2016, 2017, 2018 Figure 2.2: Average of revenue per a case Figure 3.3: The revenues of five key accounts in failure List of diagrams Diagram 1.1: The functional structure of the company Diagram 1.2: The functional structure of spinal department Diagram 2.1: Initial cause-effect map Diagram 2.2: Updated cause-effect map Diagram 4.1: Model of KAS effectiveness Diagram 4.2: Final cause and effect map 3 Bảo mật Executive Summary In the context of this essay, it helps to have a more objective view of the issue in the organization. For resolving the problems to improve the business performance, we have identified what is the real problem, limiting mistakes when identifying problems, namely a perception problem, and a target problem. In order to identify the real problem, we must collect from many data sources as well as in-depth interviews with relevant people.
Furthermore, to determine where the problem comes from, considering all the ongoing company or department symptoms or potential risks are happens firstly. Like this essay, the symptom is that sales of the five key accounts are reduced while total revenue still increases for three consecutive years from 2016 to 2018. Then, six factors have caused this symptom. One of the six issues that can be solved during this time is poor key accounts management of salespeople.
This problem is currently present in the spinal team, and it will cause two serious consequences if not resolved soon. Therefore, finding out the causes of the problem is the next step before there are comprehensive solutions. Thanks to the theory, the two main causes of the weakness of business staff are identified, including intrapreneurial ability and poor communication. Next, there are three alternative solutions like recruiting, training, and compensating that were identified for resolving this issue.
Nevertheless, compensation is the roof of cause in this situation. Finally, the detail plan for a complete solution will be designed to suggest. Because if the problem is not resolved thoroughly, it will not only that will this problem spread to other major units if not resolved early. Thanks to this essay and the theories in this course, I have learned many ways to approach and identify problems in my actual business so that I can come up with appropriate solutions in each circumstances and times.
4 Bảo mật Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Company overview Thanh An Limited Company was found in 2001, which the headquarter is located in Hanoi city. Besides, there are three offices in Ho Chi Minh, Da Nang and Can Tho with more 300 persons in 2018. Thanh An has distributed the equipment, devices and implants. The strategy is that providing a complete system solution in Orthopedic, Neurosurgery departments, and Operating room in high technology medical equipment field to almost hospitals or clinics in Vietnam, like ICU; Imaging diagnosis; Medical training equipment.
The company divides the structure according to the product in charge, including groups of tools and equipment provided to the Orthopedic Trauma department; group of goods supplied to Neurology; endoscopic product team, and project equipment business. Thanh An has over 15 years experienced up to now, which is one of the first firms in VN which bring the spinal technology to Vietnam from 2005. Many leading professional who had sent for training oversea by Thanh An, so a lot of advantages can gain in this field. Although the market has been developed quickly, many another brands approached the hospital for giving more various products for the doctors choices not only quantity of products but also quality of implants.
For better the company understanding, the overview diagrams and functional personnel structure is showed below: 5 Bảo mật Thanh An HN (310 persons) Ha Noi office Ho Chi Minh office Da Nang office Can Tho office (135 persons) (90 persons) (50 persons) (35 persons) Head of Branch HCM Admin & HR Accountant Sales Technical Dep. Department Support Dep. Project Orthopedic Spinal Endoscopic Dep. Instrument products Implant products (2 persons) (14 persons) Diagram 1.1: The functional structure of the company I am working in Spine Department buying implant of Medtronic brand as a Salesperson about 4 years.
These products are high-tech goods. Almost huge hospitals or specialize center are my customers through tenders or contracts or even quotations every year. The Specialist spinal surgeons use these products to treat of patients by inputting to into a body in a cervical or a back vertebral. In this project, the spinal team will be conduct to analysis.
The spine products are made by Medtronic – USA, and Thanh An is an exclusive distributor that sell to the hospital via the tender or contracts. Moreover, ones are classified high-tech 6 Bảo mật by Ministry of Health, so some big hospitals or specialize Clinics just have conducted this method such as Cho Ray, HTO, 115, Nguyen Tri Phuong,… In terms of personnel, there are 14 persons in the implant team including 1 sales manager, 4 salespeople, 8 clinical supporting, and 1 sales admin.2: The functional structure of spinal department Spine team (17 persons) Sales Manager (1) Instrument Implant Clinical Sales Salespeople (2) Salespeople (4) Team (9) Admin (1) 1 Sales Supervisor Salesperson 1 Salesperson 2 Salesperson 3 (5 Key accounts) (5 Key accounts) (4 Key accounts) (4 Key accounts) 7 Bảo mật Chapter 2: Problem identification 2.1 Symptoms analysis This is an industry which has a lot of affected by the policies of Government for tender laws and insurance regulations beside market situation. Moreover, these laws have changed every years, thus the result of business is also affected. Before determining problems, we should scan the business’s outcome of this department in the last 3 years 2016, 2017 and 2018 via total revenue in the following figure 2.1: The revenues of three year 2016, 2017, 2018 (Thousand VND) Cases Revenue in Cases Revenue in Cases Revenue in No.
The Hospital 2016 2016 2017 2017 2018 2018 1 Cho Ray 222 4,927,873 635 20,923,015 669 23,462,025 2 Xuyen A 137 5,049,000 160 6,083,435 493 19,894,430 Nguyen Dinh 3 19 917,300 113 5,937,300 159 8,226,600 Chieu 4 HTO 207 4,923,100 212 6,514,670 206 7,699,700 5 115 People 180 7,023,035 161 5,795,974 126 4,763,471 6 Trung Vuong 45 1,920,850 100 4,436,560 111 5,354,600 7 175 Military 34 1,320,795 51 2,118,600 83 3,466,500 8 EXSON 105 2,658,140 90 2,214,645 115 3,146,965 9 Gia Dinh 55 1,555,380 45 2,071,860 70 2,641,995 10 Khanh Hoa 210 2,955,350 173 2,533,100 135 2,366,850 11 Pediatric 2 35 1,892,810 25 1,597,832 24 1,526,195 12 Tien Giang 0 - 0 - 26 1,311,825 Dong Nai 13 93 2,341,258 37 1,207,928 22 699,712 Union 14 N.Phuong 86 3,382,540 54 1,802,755 29 1,037,560 15 120 Military 16 1,003,000 16 INH 19 399,500 41 1,467,750 23 994,565 17 District 2 0 - 18 739,000 18 UMH 4 34,400 0 9 571,000 - 19 7A Military 0 - 23 1,101,850 9 536,100 20 FV 3 210,000 3 160,500 11 522,500 21 Others 5,508,435 2,038,209 5,953,775 Total 47,019,766 68,005,983 95,918,368 8 Bảo mật Looking at the figure 2.1, the revenue had been grown continuously in three years. To be more precise, the overall growth of the southern office is 45% in 2017 and 41% in 2018. In general, the revenue is in a good growth. To know where the revenue was rising from two sources like increasing in the number of operation cases, and going up in value per case as the below figure 2.2: Average of revenue per a case Revenue of 20 Case Case Case hospitals Year 2016 Year 2017 Year 2018 2016 2107 2108 (Thousand VND) Total 1,613 47,019,766 2,038 68,005,983 2,593 95,918,368 Average of revenue/ 1 case 29,150 33,370 36,990 (Thousand VND) Growth (%) 14% 45% 41% Seeing the figure 2.2, because new techniques are constantly being applied, average value per case was augmented 14% in 2017 from 29,150,000 VND to 33,370,000 VND and 11% in 2018, and total revenue increased in this 3 years.
Seeing the table 2, because new techniques are constantly being applied, average value per case was augmented 14% in 2017 from 29,150,000 VND to 33,370,000 VND and 11% in 2018, and total revenue increased in this 3 years. However, five big hospitals has been decreasing revenues continuously in 2016; 2017; and 2018 such as 115; Khanh Hoa; Pediatric 2; Dong Nai; and Nguyen Tri Phuong hospital that units had contributed nearly 36% revenue in 2016. In contrast, they had just down to 12% in 2018. In particular, both the number of surgeries and revenue in these five accounts dropped sharply in 2017 especially the biggest decreasing was Nguyen Tri Phuong hospital with nearly 1.6 billion Vietnamdong with the highest reduction rate approximately 48%.
The next is People 115 with a reduction of more than 1.2 billion VND with a rate of 17%. Dong Nai Union also fell with a high of 48% in 2017 and 42% in 2018. Similarly, Khanh Hoa and Pediatric 2 had a lower reduction of only 14% and 16% in 2017 respectively, and 9 Bảo mật there was an increase 7% and 4% in 2018. We can see in figure 3 for clearly overview: Figure 3.3: The revenues of five key accounts in failure Growth Growth Revenue Cases Revenue Cases Revenue 2017/ Cases Revenue 2018/ (Thousand 2016 2016 2017 2017 2018 2018 VND) 2016 2017 Nguyen Tri 86 3,382,540 54 1,802,755 -48% 29 1,037,560 -42% Phuong 115 People 180 7,023,035 161 5,795,974 -17% 126 4,763,471 -18% Dong Nai 93 2,341,258 37 1,207,928 -48% 22 699,712 -42% Union Khanh Hoa 210 2,955,350 173 2,533,100 -14% 135 2,366,850 -7% General Pediatric 2 35 1,892,810 25 1,597,832 -16% 24 1,526,195 -4% Therefore, revenues’ reducing of five accounts is huge issues in these situation that have to warn urgent to prevent continued along tend to occur in other potential units in the near future.2 Initial cause-effect map To determine problems, some interviews were conducted with two salespersons being in charge of 5 accounts having reducing to find out the detail reasons causing symptoms.