Written by Jonny Williamson
AAF International is a world leader in the manufacturing of air filtration equipment, supplying global firms such as Siemens, General Electric and Rolls Royce. Employing almost 3,000 staff across 24 countries, the company has made a number of significant investments recently, including a new £1million research and development centre in Northumberland, UK.
Developed over the last six months, the new sales management system will reduce the average time taken by AAF’s sales engineers to generate customer quotations from weeks to hours.
Sales Director at AAF’s UK Power & Industrial Division, Dave Carroll, said:
“We needed a new quotation tool so called in AYO Media to tailor-make a quote generation system for us that allowed our sales engineers to create often complex customer quotations in simple, efficient and professional manner, all in one place.”
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Carroll continued:
“Not only has the new automated system become a reality and helped us achieve this operational objective but it has also given us a management tool that allows supervisors to oversee our sales pipeline, engineer activities and potential revenue at the click of a button.”
Regarding the partnership with AYO Media, Carroll commented:
“It has been great working with the team at AYO Media as they have brought a huge amount of expertise, creativity and knowledge to the table. The new system is helping us reduce administration time and the costs associated with generating quotes, which in turn is freeing up time for our sales engineers to concentrate on the quality of proposals and drive sales revenue.”
UK-based AYO Media is a digital business specialising in delivering business solutions for web and mobile devices, in addition to complex and technical web development projects. The company has taken on a number of apprentices of late, with its continuing commitment to creating employment opportunities attracting a recent visit from His Royal Highness, The Duke of York.
Rob Mathieson, Managing Director at AYO Media, explained:
“The quote generation system we have developed for AAF is custom-built around its current and future commercial needs as opposed to an off-the-shelf option that can often do more harm than good to businesses. This type of software development project is the kind that delivers the greatest return on investment for clients by taking traditionally labour-intensive processes and procedures online and consolidating them all in one place.”
Mathieson concluded:
“We are delighted to see the AAF sales team already reaping the rewards of the system and long may it continue.”
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