Do handbooks seem like an antiquated business term? Let’s call it the base of a supplier information portal. Maybe a different moniker would be better marketing, but hey that’s not my forte-neither are colors as any family member of mine could attest. A lot of our consulting practice is focused on working with manufacturers on gaining channel partner mind share. Many manufacturers develop programs for marketing, sales and product training, sales metrics (both leading and lagging indicators) https://www.jimthomasintl.com/blog/archives/07-2016 and management review. A client recently asked me to revamp their distributor handbook. They wanted to put their distributor handbook on their distributor only web portal and have it regularly updated. They realized that there were many personnel changes inside their channel partner organizations and channel partners relied on “tribal knowledge” to train new employees. Having a manufacturer training document online was a great channel partner training tool, standardized onboarding and accelerated the learning process. It also gave the manufacturer a leading edge to getting up to competitive speed within the complementary distributor line cards.
The key components of a distributor handbook would include:
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