Sofon Guided Selling
About Sofon Guided Selling
Sofon is a Sales Automation solution that simplifies, accelerates and improves the sales process of customer specific products or services. Sofon helps sales employees to easily and quickly translate customer requirements into error-free professional proposals and quotations. Quotations can be automatically transformed into production orders. Sofon guides sales to choose the best product fulfilling the needs of the potential buyer and to help them to a buying decision.
Key benefits of Sofon Guided Selling
In short
- With Sofon you easily produce error-free, well-presented proposals
- With Sofon you generate quotations and commissions more rapidly
- With Sofon you control your sales process from contact to contract
- Because of Sofon, all your orders are complete and feasible
Sales
Sofon Guided Selling helps sales departments maximize their sales opportunities and better manage the sales process as a whole. Dealers and other agents can also depend on problem-free sales of new and existing products and services and will need less support. All that with fewer risks in less time. Sofon makes sure of:
Connection - between client demand and product possibilities
Knowledge - complete and error-free quotations with less knowledge
Speed - no waiting for information from others
Impact - solid, attractive and competitive offers
Quality - faultless tenders, commissions and contracts
Effectiveness - fewer (manual) steps, so more time for clients
Competitive edge - best price/performance
Overview - full overview of sales process
Marketing
Sofon Guided Selling offers extensive report and selection possibilities. In this way, marketing can be targeted and so undertaken more effectively.
Furthermore, Sofon Guided Selling makes sure that all documents are always presented in the correct house style. If changes are needed, they can be made easily in all documents generated in Sofon with a simple command. Thus, a correct and uniform image is guaranteed at all times. Sofon takes care of:
Recognition - strict uniformity of house style, in the local language wherever you are
Interaction - targeted interaction with clients possible (e-commerce)
Insight - more insight gained into (purchasing) behavior and (potential) clients
Focus - targeted marketing possible
Management
A company’s continuity is determined by the factors of predictability and liability, apart from a healthy business model. Sofon contributes directly to the predictability of turnover and related income by making sure of insight into outstanding tenders and orders.
Because only feasible products and deliverable services are offered and contracted, the risk of product liability decreases considerably. And because only correct offers are made, margins are ascertained beforehand for every order. In this way, you completely fulfill client expectations. Sofon takes care of:
Cost reduction - costs, margins and turnover are immediately clear
Predictability - fewer overhead costs because sales reps produce their own offers
Less risk - less chance of mistakes (product liability, cost of returned products)
Teamwork - improved cooperation between sales, development and production
Image - consistent, professional communication
Control - authorization of important sales decisions
Production
Sofon Guided Selling brings you faster production, improved manufacturing and less failure costs. Sofon enables sales staff to generate complete and correct orders for deliverable products. Anything else is impossible. This creates predictability and therefore calm during the production process. Sofon takes care of:
Accuracy - complete and correctly specified commissions
Realism - all sales orders are based on feasible products
Predictability - no changes during production as orders are immediately completed
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Unbeaten in ease of use and value for money!
Reviewed on 27/04/2011
The product data and rules are maintained by the people that have the knowledge, not by it-people....
The product data and rules are maintained by the people that have the knowledge, not by it-people. Though 'off-the-shelf', the tool is highly flexible and easy to use. We could not perform without it.
Pros
The Aebi Schmidt Group (www.aebi-schmidt.com) manufactures outstanding, world-wide-distributed agricultural, municipal and special equipment.
With a customized range of products and services we offer our customers appropriate solutions for almost every problem.
All our products (silo spreaders, snowploughs, snow clearing machines, compact sweepers, mounted sweepers, implement carriers, transporters and mowers) are configurable, from a few options to many highly complex options with multi-level dependencies and calculations. We use Sofon to maintain and spread the product knowledge amongst all our sales offices all over Europe. With Sofon a salesman is able to make a good-looking quotation in a short time without much product knowledge. Sofon supports the whole quotation process, and when a quotation becomes an order, a sales order and the complete bill of material and routing is created in our ERP system (SAP). Changes are handled too.
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no real Cons
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Our price agreements with our various customers are now clearly defined
Reviewed on 01/05/2013
E. van Wijk Logistics is an international logistics service company with branches in the Netherlands...
E. van Wijk Logistics is an international logistics service company with branches in the Netherlands, Romania, Moldavia and Ukraine. Before Sofon our quotations and calculations were produced manually in Excel. This was time-consuming and prone to errors; it was for example easy to forget a change in rates. This is why we wanted to simplify the way the rates were put together. We also wanted more insight into client-specific rates and outstanding quotations. We now make use of the Sofon Sales Organizer (CRM package) and the Sofon Proposal Organizer (quotation generator). We use Sofon to quickly produce uniform and error-free quotations, including the accompanying calculations. Our price agreements with our various customers are now clearly defined and our price adjustments are greatly simplified. Sofon also offers us insight into the quotations we have issued to date and the effectiveness of our sales reps.
Pros
Quickly produce uniform and error-free quotations
Offers insight into the quotations we have issued to date and the effectiveness of our sales reps
Price agreements are now clearly defined and our price adjustments are greatly simplified
Cons
no real Cons
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Most poorly designed software I have ever used…
Reviewed on 05/04/2013
I use SOFON as an end user. There is NO possible way to overstate how VERY bad this product is. ...
I use SOFON as an end user. There is NO possible way to overstate how VERY bad this product is. It is counter-intuitive, buggy, and designed in such a way as to require massive amounts of additional unneeded keystrokes ans rework. Run the other direction.
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None
Cons
Far too many to list, see above.
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All the Sofon-users in our company are very pleased
Reviewed on 08/04/2013
Voortman develops, manufactures, installs and maintains CNC controlled processing machines for the...
Voortman develops, manufactures, installs and maintains CNC controlled processing machines for the steel fabricating industry and steel service centers. Because of our growing international clientele, we were looking for a complete sales support system. Sofon turned out to be very complete, so we use all of Sofon: from CRM to quotation generation ¿ and everything in between. The implementation of Sofon took only a few months. I had expected that we would need far more time, but my expectations were definitely proved wrong. All the Sofon-users in our company are very pleased with the ease of use the system offers. Since the introduction of Sofon we have the years of customer history visible at a glance. We also have a link to and synchronization of our e-marketing package, we have the possibility to manage our opportunities and our management reports are available, thanks to Sofon.
Pros
Quick implementation (only a few months)
Ease of use the system
Customer history visible at a glance
Link to and synchronization of our e-marketing package
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Sofon offers Voortman complete sales support system
Reviewed on 08/02/2013
Voortman develops, manufactures, installs and maintains CNC controlled processing machines for the...
Voortman develops, manufactures, installs and maintains CNC controlled processing machines for the steel fabricating industry and steel service centers. Because of our growing international clientele, we were looking for a complete sales support system. Sofon turned out to be very complete, so we use all of Sofon: from CRM to quotation generation and everything in between. The implementation of Sofon took only a few months. I had expected that we would need far more time, but my expectations were definitely proved wrong. All the Sofon-users in our company are very pleased with the ease of use the system offers. Since the introduction of Sofon we have the years of customer history visible at a glance. We also have a link to and synchronization of our e-marketing package, we have the possibility to manage our opportunities and our management reports are available, thanks to Sofon.
Pros
quick implementation
ease of use the system
customer history visible at a glance
Cons
No major cons.
Sofon Guided Selling FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Sofon Guided Selling.Q. What type of pricing plans does Sofon Guided Selling offer?
Sofon Guided Selling offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: USD 30,000.00/one-time
- Free Trial: Not Available
User + server based license or subscription model
Q. Who are the typical users of Sofon Guided Selling?
Sofon Guided Selling has the following typical customers:
2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Sofon Guided Selling support?
Sofon Guided Selling supports the following languages:
Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish
Q. Does Sofon Guided Selling support mobile devices?
Sofon Guided Selling supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Sofon Guided Selling integrate with?
Sofon Guided Selling integrates with the following applications:
Oracle CRM On Demand, SAP Customer Experience, Salesforce Sales Cloud
Q. What level of support does Sofon Guided Selling offer?
Sofon Guided Selling offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat
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