Kanthal

What was the Kanthal president, Ridderstrale, attempting to accomplish with the Account Management System? Are these sensible goals? Why or why not? The motivation for Carl-Erik Ridderstrale, president of Kanthal, to develop an Account Management System was to find a process of determining the profitability of individual customer orders. An accurate account measurement system was needed in order to achieve a strategy for increasing growth and profitability without adding a significant amount of sales and …showed first 75 words of 1681 total…

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