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Sales force configuration involves decisions that reflect sales strategy, sales force structure and sales force size. Specifically, it focuses on how the sales personnel apportion their efforts among different products, customers, geography and selling activities (sales strategy); the differing roles that internal sales force and external selling partners should play (sales force structure) and the sales force capacity to effectively serve the customers (sales force size). Sales force configuration management is critical because it determines how quickly a company can adjust its sales forces in response to market opportunities, while balancing compensation costs and profitability.
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This page is a summary of: Managing Sales Compensation, Compensation & Benefits Review, March 2013, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0886368713490639.
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