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venture logistics salesforce crm

re-implementation & erp integration

 

Salesforce Sales Cloud and Pardot Implementations

Project

Venture Logistics needed to re-implement Salesforce CRM to:

  • Accomplish the company objective of “One Venture” where multiple business units collaborate in a single CRM system

  • Migrate from an outdated Salesforce org to a new Lightning org configured for multiple business units and opportunity types

  • Add numerous system enhancements and automations

  • Overhaul reporting and dashboards to meet evolving needs

  • Integrate Salesforce with ERP, and

  • Implement Pardot for marketing automation

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Client

For over 25 years, Venture Logistics has served as a full-service logistics partner for customers in North America and across the globe, offering a vast array of specialized services to get the job done safely, successfully, and on time—24/7, 365.

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Challenge

Venture Logistics had one business unit that was using Salesforce but needed assistance bringing two other sales business units into a single Salesforce platform. The sales teams needed to be able to work independently on some opportunities and collaborate on others.  Reports and dashboards that existed in the previous environment needed to be rebuilt with multiple business units in mind. Existing data from previous Salesforce needed to be migrated and associated to the appropriate units. Venture Logistics needed to update the lead process to accommodate the new model.

Through the discovery process with Venture Logistics, Summit Technologies learned that Venture:

  • Wanted like to migrate from an outdated Salesforce org to a new Salesforce org while enhancing the functionality for the business unit using it and onboard two other business units that were minimally or not using Salesforce

  • Had a need for strong internal contextual collaboration tools to cross-sell across business units and ensure proposals are generated in a timely fashion - Transparency, automation, timely notifications and effective oversight were keys to achieving this process in Salesforce

  • Required integration between Salesforce and their ERP to keep account data in sync and surface critical account revenue data for the sales teams

  • Desired a quick launch to deliver the initial stages of the Salesforce implementation, with Summit Technologies providing expert assistance and guidance to ensure a seamless transition from the old Salesforce org to the new

  • Had strong internal personnel resources that can be leveraged during the project to:

    • Work side by side with Summit Technologies, and where appropriate, to share work and provide in-depth oversight and input

    • Work towards establishing an internal center of excellence for Venture, which will provide long term optimization of their Salesforce instance

  • Wanted to strengthen their email marketing efforts and associated reporting

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Solution

Summit Technologies addressed the challenges. The Summit Technologies team:

 

Result

Summit Technologies was able to provide the “One Venture” experience that Venture Logistics leadership had championed. Sales teams across all business units are able to share and collaborate on opportunities and can view critical data from the ERP system while in Salesforce. The Marketing team is building effective marketing journeys for clients and prospects with deeper insight into their efficacy. The Venture Salesforce admin team was impressed with the knowledge of the Summit Technologies team and how quickly we were able to overcome any hurdles that arose during the process.

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