A Management-Oriented Model for Allocating Sales Effort

A model for sales territory analysis was developed in cooperation with sales executives of a large firm. It models field selling operations in a way which is intuitive to managers though using quantitative methods and computer simulation. It heavily weights judgmental inputs and explicitly models salesman-customer interaction and carryover effects of previous sales efforts.

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