Running a fleet of more than fifty vessels along Great Lakes & St Lawrence Seaway and throughout Eastern Canada, McKeil Marine was being hampered however by the cumbersome way data was managed in the business.
McKeil Marine chose Sage CRM to manage and centralize its customers and sales opportunities. Processes have been automated, simplifying the management of their fleet and maximizing its efficiency. Sales reporting data has been
standardized and streamlined giving better visibility into pipeline and activity management while overall productivity has been increased by 15%, with savings of 1.5 hours per day per employee.
Sage CRM enhances your customers’ experience by doing so many things they never even see, for instance, enabling improved business processes, closer management of new and existing customer relationships, increased revenues and decreased inefficiencies. Sage CRM provides management with timely and reliable insight to guide important business decisions.
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URL: www.sundae.co.th
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More information about Sage CRM:
Sundae Solutions Co., Ltd. - Thailand
Tel. +66 2 634 8899
Email: sales@sundae.co.th
URL: www.sundae.co.th
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Sage CRM & McKeil Marine - making sense of cargo on Canada's seaways.
1. McKeil Marine sees a 15%
increase in productivity
with the help of Sage CRM
Sage CRM
Customer Success
McKeil Marine is continually striving to
improve the service experience it offers. It
was being hampered however by the
cumbersome way data was managed in
the business. “Being spread over a
number of offices, states Brent Kinnaird,
Marketing Manager, “meant it was hard to
centralise, capture and maintain
consistency of data. It was difficult to
really ‘know the information’ owned by
the company”.
All McKeil’s customer data was held in
Excel spreadsheets, with its six sales
people spending a minimum of 4 hours
each a week updating and generating
sales reports. That’s 24 hours a week or
three working days just so that the
Business Development Vice President
could know what was going on.
Background story
McKeil Marine has been delivering
innovative marine solutions via its fleet of
tugs and barges for nearly sixty years. A
family business, headquartered in
Hamilton, Ontario, and with offices in
Montreal, Quebec, Saint John, New
Brunswick and St. John’s, Newfound-
land, the company runs a fleet of more
than fifty vessels, supporting a variety of
transportation needs along Great Lakes
-St Lawrence Seaway and throughout
Eastern Canada.
Customer
McKeil Marine
Industry
Marine Services
Location
Canada
Solution
Sage CRM
Solution
McKeil Marine chose Sage CRM to
manage and centralize its customers and
sales opportunities. Processes have been
automated, simplifying the management
of their fleet and maximizing its efficiency.
Results
Sales reporting data has been
standardized and streamlined giving
better visibility into pipeline and activity
management while overall productivity
has been increased by 15% , with savings
of 1.5 hours per day per employee.
Challenge
Continually striving to improve the service
experience it offers, McKeil Marine was
being hampered however by the
cumbersome way data was managed in
the business.
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2. “We can look at system
and see ‘we had X
opportunities to carry
cargo’ but we didn’t
have assets available.
Now we use that current
& historical data to ‘put
all bits of the business
together’ - the data
becomes intelligence”
Brent Kinnaird
Marketing Manager
McKeil Marine
everyone in the business. They are also
generating increased revenues, as
customer’s requirements and the fleet’s
availability can be matched up far more
accurately using the visual map. “We can
look at system and see ‘we had X
opportunities to carry cargo’ but we
didn’t have assets available. Now we use
that current & historical data to “put all
bits of business together” - the data
becomes intelligence”, said Brent.
Key project goals delivered
• Pipeline and forecasting information is
available to everyone and easy for them
to use
• Spreadsheets and manual processes
have been eliminated
• Productivity has been increased by
15% , with savings of 1.5 hours per day
per employee for 6 team members in only
3 months
• The sales team now has centralized
access to a consistent data source
• Sales reporting has been standardized
and streamlined giving better visibility into
pipeline and activity management
• Pipeline data is now truly owned by the
company
In addition the Business Development VP
was unable to track sales data from a
single location and couldn’t generate real
time reports. Unable to see the pipeline or
generate a sales forecast, the sales
manager was also spending between 5
and 8 hours a week creating manual
sales reports for the board.
Unable to view accounting data, or view
customers history or statistics,
salespeople were also losing sales
opportunities and money as there was no
way to understand or visualize what was
going on across the business. “We had
inklings that business was being lost due
to a lack of capacity”, stated Brent, “but
when you need to invest many hundreds
of thousands of dollars in new equipment,
you need to be sure about your data. We
had to have meaningful and compelling
data to prove a business case.”
Good time for a change
McKeil Marine chose Sage CRM to
manage and centralize its customers and
sales opportunities. Processes have been
automated, simplifying the management
of their fleet and maximizing its efficiency,
and everyone that needs it now has
access to opportunity information. With
the implementation of sales force
automation, past and current sales can
easily be tracked, increasing the team’s
ability to make the most of any and all
sales opportunities.
Sales reports are now automatically
generated, and tailored to the needs of
different people depending on what they
need to know. Weekly reports are now
sent out with no need for human
intervention as email attachments,
ensuring that everyone knows what’s
going on all the time.
In addition the team now has an
interactive map generated from the data
within Sage CRM. This map provides a
visual representation of where each
vessel in McKeil’s fleet is and what it is
doing, making it possible to contact
customers who would previously have
been lost opportunities and offer them
vessel capacity to meet their
requirements.
Key benefits
McKeil’s has seen huge benefits since the
system went live. The time sales people
used to spend preparing reports has now
been reclaimed for more productive work.
The reports generated by Sage CRM now
deliver accurate and timely information to
Sage CRM
Customer Success
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