Construction Company Streamlines Equipment Sales Workflow with Salesforce
The Client
The client is a Texas-based construction company that has been in business since 1932. Regarded as one of the premier foundation contractors in the southern United States, they have extended their services globally, reaching Central and South America, and Europe. In addition to being a pioneer in drilled shaft foundation industry, they have a strong presence in equipment rentals and the sales area of the construction industry.
CLIENT PROFILE
EMPLOYEES: 200+
INDUSTRY: Commercial & Residential Construction / Equipment Rental
FOUNDED: 1932
Key Challenges
The client’s rentals and sales business has significantly grown over the past couple of years to 30% of the overall revenue.
Their rapid growth has caused difficulty scaling with their current systems and processes, which are characteristic of large organizations. In fact, the processes and systems supporting this part of the business are manual and are not equipped to support the long-term business objectives.
All the leads and orders were captured via emails and tracked in spreadsheets. This method of lead intake and information capture posed challenges with data visibility and accountability.
Here is just a sampling of some of the key challenges uncovered during the assessment.
The Smartbridge Solution
Discovery & Roadmap
Smartbridge completed an assessment of the current systems and processes. The results were a staggering list of widespread impacts across sales, management, billing, warehouse, operations, and the customer, as you can see above.
Smartbridge then defined a roadmap with 30 opportunities for modernization by leveraging Salesforce and Robotic Process Automation (RPA)-based solutions. The construction side of the business was already using Salesforce, so a Salesforce-based solution to streamline the rest of the business made the best sense for the customer.
It was determined that the solution would be deployed in three phases, the first one focusing on the sales order process and rental order intake.
Other systems included in Phase 1:
Deploy a solution to streamline the equipment sales workflow
In Phase 1, the Smartbridge team worked with the client and conducted design workshops to understand their sales and rental process and defined the phase goals.
Addressing these three goals first would accomplish 9 of the 30 high value opportunities identified during the assessment.
GOALS:
After defining the phase goals, the Smartbridge team developed Salesforce functionality to streamline the equipment sales workflow. This phase focused on implementing the process for lead intake, lead conversion, and the entire Sales process.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Smartbridge will continue the Salesforce optimizations in future phases. These include addressing objectives around process efficiencies, workflow and integration, and wrapping up with automation & reporting.
Beyond Salesforce
With Smartbridge, our capabilities serve to extend our Salesforce professional services. With teams specializing in Intelligent Automation, data & analytics and cloud modernization, Salesforce can do so much more. A comprehensive approach to integrating core business systems like Salesforce with Microsoft, Oracle, UiPath and others will provide clients with the frictionless customer experience requested of them.
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