Key Account Management: Tools and Techniques for Achieving Profitable Key Supplier Status

An organization's key accounts are its lifeblood. Key account management focuses on the long-term investment of resources in customers that can offer an exceptional return on resources. But which are the key accounts? Are they the ones growing the fastest? The ones that are most financially secure? Or are they the ones that shout the loudest? Key Account Management puts forward a straightforward and effective planning methodology.

This fully updated 6th edition of Key Account Management takes a long-term, team-selling strategic view of the whole process, from defining the customer, to managing the relationship and achieving key supplier status. With coverage of latest best practice including IT's role in account management, plus new case studies, online supporting resources and a new section comparing how different industries/markets approach key account management, it stands alone as the premier book on managing key customers.

Online resources include helpful templates, guides for students and lecturers, and self tests to ensure that best practice is being followed.

Author: Peter Cheverton
Publisher: Kogan Page
Published: 02/24/2015
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780749469405

About the Author
Peter Cheverton is founding Director of INSIGHT Marketing and People, a global training and consulting firm specializing in the development of customer-focused business strategies, with a strong focus on Key Account Management and Business Leadership. He has developed an international reputation as one of the leading experts in these challenging areas, working hands-on with clients around the world. He is author of Key Marketing Skills, Global Account Management and Key Account Management in Financial Services (Kogan Page).