Client Overview
Location: Mountville, PA, USA
Employees: 2,000
Industry: Direct Manufacturing
Solution: Sales Cloud, M3 Integration
Go-Live Dates: August 4th 2024
AHF Products’ brands have been known in America as leaders in hardwood flooring solutions for residential customers. Their trusted, nationally recognized brands include solid & engineered hardwood flooring, wood-look luxury vinyl flooring, & next-generation flooring solutions. They service a wide range of commercial customers with quality flooring from small businesses to large national retailers. Headquartered in Mountville, Pennsylvania with manufacturing operations across the United States & in Cambodia, AHF Products employs over 2,000 dedicated team members.
Challenge
ERP (Infor M3) Product & Account data not integration with their legacy CRM for Sales Team consumption
Dashboard & report security constraints based on their existing security model for Sales Dashboards
Ability to attribute Sales opportunities to more than one entity & Sales representative
Lead generation control was not in properly in place in the legacy CRM, contributing to duplicate contacts, accounts, & opportunities
Leveraged as much out of the box Salesforce functionality as possible, while catering to business needs for automation
Solution
Implemented new Sales business process within Salesforce, so that the system was not changing to the business, which would have resulted in a highly customized solution
Configured product & account ERP integration processes utilizing Infor ION, allowing for accurate address, SKU, & client data, which is now accessible in Salesforce via the Infor Ion integration
Created Dashboards & Reports for management & the Sales representatives leveraging native Salesforce role hierarchies & profiles for appropriate visibility
Connected HubSpot to Salesforce for Lead generation, while also having duplicate reports in place to allow AHF team members to manage duplicate data
Result
Highly out of box functionality CRM solution that is leveraged by over 20 users on the Sales & Management teams
Accurate Product data flowing into the system allowing for accurate initial Opportunity dollar amounts & automation to ensure pipeline truthfulness
Dashboards & reports that provide insight into the Sales Pipeline, allowing Sales Representatives to see how their peers are doing with nearly real time updates
Increased extendibility of the platform for future integrations for leads by creating an architecture that was minimal technical debt, custom objects, & over-engineered user & profile security