{"id":67690,"date":"2020-08-20T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e3mag.com\/?p=67690"},"modified":"2020-08-06T10:24:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T08:24:59","slug":"how-to-digitally-transform-sales-in-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/how-to-digitally-transform-sales-in-manufacturing\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Digitally Transform Sales In Manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAP and Salesforce are 'old reliables' in manufacturing. They work perfectly well, together or on their own, to address the needs of more traditional billing and revenue models. However, they struggle with recurring revenues such as IoT applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To forego subscription revenues is just not viable anymore in our increasingly digitalized world - so much so that it can actually cost companies market shares or, at the worst, their business. <\/p><div id=\"great-4170794591\" class=\"great-fullsize-content-en\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6yfv7eho3Gc\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Fullsize\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fullsize\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-400x50.jpg 400w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-768x96.jpg 768w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-100x13.jpg 100w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-480x60.jpg 480w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-640x80.jpg 640w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-720x90.jpg 720w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-960x120.jpg 960w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-1168x146.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-18x2.jpg 18w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-600x75.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"150\"  style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Consequently, manufacturing companies have to transform sales and billing processes to add on recurring revenues. 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