The Peculiarities of Sales Management in Business Organizations of Various Industries

The article is aimed at distinguish the peculiarities of the process of management of sales activities of business organizations working in agriculture, processing industry, engineering, trade, light industry and service sector, and identifying specific aspects arising at the junction of sales management and other functional spheres of business organization management. A number of universal principles for any business organization that should be taken into account in the process of forming a general strategy and planning and implementing sales management is provided. Specific features of construction of channels for distribution of finished products in business organizations of different activities are analyzed. The main aspects of interaction of business organizations with other subjects of sales activity are considered and recommendations on its more effective organization are made. It is defined that the main methods of product promotion to achieve the goals of the sales subsystem in the process of sales management are: advertising, sales incentives and personal sales. The main differences in the work of the sales subsystem of business organizations of different industries are identified and the peculiarities of sales management are singled out. It is shown that a feature of sales activities of business organizations in the service sector is the use of a zero sales channel, but for the vast majority of engineering business organizations it is important to operate a «marketing center» organized on a functional principle, the purpose of which is to interact with all departments of the business organization, and for industrial business organizations in which the supply of products to the place of sale depends on the location of production, it is crucial to comply with such conditions as achieving maximum satisfaction of the consumers’ needs and optimizing the cost of supplying products.