Char, Since you're talking with the Director of Sales and not the Director or Purchasing, I'm going to presume that you are a vendor of products/services to the large retail, grocery, health care, petroleum, transportation, utilities or some other industry in which large organizations do business with vendors like you.
I suggest that you ask your Director of Sales to name the 10 largest orgnizations in your marketplace with whom he/she would most like to do business but is not. Then, call their Purchasing offices and ask them if they prefer to do business with their vendors via EDI or other means of communications. Then, tell your DIrector of Sales that most of the large organizations in the large busines sectors, like retail and grocery, only buy from vendors who are EDI capable, because EDI allows them to transmit and receive the documents by which they conduct business electronically, which saves them a ton of both time and money. Then name the companies who would prefer to do business with your company if your company were EDI capable, based on your research. You don't need a PPT to explain EDI. You need a business strategy that will increase your sales, revenue and profit thru the use of EDI. If your Director of Sales, or President or CEO doesn't respond with some interest to find out more about EDI after you explain your proposed business strategy, presuming you have developed a compelling strategy, you need to find another company to work for who can use EDI to their advantage. Good luck, Dave Taylor Sysmark Information Systems, Inc. Authorized IBM Business Partner 49 Aspen Way Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274 (O) 800-SYSMARK (800-797-6275) (F) 310-377-3550 (C) 310-561-5200 www.sysmarkinfo.com ----- Original Message ----- From: edi.chill To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:10 PM Subject: [SPAM] [EDI-L] Need a PPT on EDI or EDI for Dummies I was wondering if anyone has and could please forward me a PPT presentation about what EDI is. Basically EDI for Dummies without going into detail about specific EDI softwares. Yes I know what it is and I have tried to explain it to our Director of Sales but it is as if we are speaking two different languages and I fear he will never understand. I speak "geek" and he speaks "would sell my momma for a penny" and I have been unable to find a translator to bridge the gap between our two languages. I have a little mpeg of the little guy beating his head on his keyboard until it bleeds, but that's not graphic enough info for him and he demands more. I have tried going into more detail but he does not understand FTP, SMTP, sFTP, SSH, AS2 or anything else. So if anyone out there has simple enough PPT for a "trained monkey" (my analogy of a sales rep) to understand please forward you would be saving my overworked self a lot of grief. Yes I checked the files section first to no avail. Thanks in Advance, Char [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
