Vision Pharma CRM
Vision Pharma CRM will Address 7 important Issues to help drive Pharma Sales Force Effectiveness
Crossing Pharma safe barriers
Sales efficiency & effectiveness improvements are the key drivers, for an efficient, effective sales force that can drive sales, market share and profits to Pharmaceutical organizations.
Vision Pharma CRM will resolve following 7 issues:
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1) Pre-call planning
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Medical Reps struggle in preparing presentation for the following day’s sales visits prior to starting their daily sales trips. Before each sales visit, medical reps have to find time to review what happened during the previous meetings with the physician. The goal is to provide the physician helpful and interesting pieces of information during face to face details.
The reps have to visit their targeted physician at a set frequency on a consistent basis. Medical reps’ effectiveness in their meetings with physicians depends largely on the extent to which the physician perceives the interaction as intellectually value-adding. Naturally pre-call planning is the most critical component of a sales call which determines the future relationship with physicians and the rep.
2) Last minute appointment cancellations
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Another barrier to Sales efficiency for MRs during their daily sales trips is when a physician cancels a pre scheduled appointment. Because of unpredictable circumstances that might make the doctor not available for the meeting, MRs can only hope for the best and wait for the Physician in his office.
If an appointment gets cancelled, Medical Rep moves to the next scheduled sales visit as per Tour Plan. A lot of time gets wasted in between calls. This builds a lot of frustration in the minds of MRs as they fail to meet their daily quota of calls.
3) Dealing with Dead time
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Another barrier to sales efficiency is the difficulty in turning periods of dead time into productive ones. Dead time is the wasted time spent without performing any work-related activity such as time in transit between scheduled meetings of a particular day, time wasted as a result of a last minute cancellation of an already booked meeting with a physician, or time available because of less time than expected being spent with a physician. Occurrence of dead time is frequent and difficult to predict. Medical Reps can’t plan ahead in the event of a last minute cancellation of a meeting. Hence value generating activity such as visiting another contact nearby is essential.
But generally most physicians require to be contacted in advance for a meeting with Medical rep. Therefore Medical reps deal with dead time either waiting outside the physician’s office or in the hospital cafeteria.
4) Answering to Doctor outstanding questions
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Medical Reps effectiveness in field is affected by long delay in providing physicians with answers to their outstanding objections or questions.
And most often; doctors may need answers to their questions urgently; to which Medical Rep do not have immediate answer. In most cases, the information-gathering process takes place at home or by forwarding them to more specialized colleagues within the company. By waiting for the colleague to reply to the outstanding question, the time gets increased for the Medical Rep to submit the answer back to the physician.
5) Providing new and relevant info to Doctors
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A further barrier to sales effectiveness is physicians expecting reps to adapt to physicians’ information requirements. Physicians require that the reps provide them with new information during each sales meeting. They also want to hear other doctors’ experience with the drug, opinions and clinical findings.
Physicians believe another doctor more than the Medical Rep & often regard the opinion of their colleagues about the product the rep is promoting as more reliable than the arguments the rep provides them with. Hence they appreciate if Medical reps can provide them with the experiences of other physicians which is a constant struggle for Medical reps.
6) Post-call planning
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Medical Sales force Reps take down and store useful information during sales calls. During face to face meeting with physicians, the reps rely mainly on their memory for remembering what they perceive as useful information, such as drug-related issues discussed with the doctors or some specific questions that the physician may have. Information that the reps perceive as highly important (i.e. questions that require a follow-up), are written down on paper and later entered into the laptop when there is sufficient time between meetings or from home. The way follow-ups and paper notes are handled during sales visits is a barrier to effectiveness. Post-call planning helps in identifying what went right and what went wrong. That’s why the best idea is to complete the post-call planning right after the call is made.
7) Medical Rep & Doctor gap
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Another potential barrier to sales force effectiveness that reps face is – the availability gap. When physicians feel an urgent need to make a phone call to the reps; they may or may not get to talk.
That’s because most Medical reps put their mobile phone in silent mode during sales meetings and thus they cannot answer to incoming calls. When the rep tries to call back the physician after the sales visit they may be busy and not available to take the rep’s call. An opportunity to service the physician at his moment of need is lost!
Such unavailability gap of context-specific information to physicians may hamper the physician’s ability to treat his/her patients; and thus affecting Rx.
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