Sales Force Designing using an Artificial Intelligence based approach.
Published on Jan 02, 2007 | By andres r. masegosa | Permalink
This technology transfer project (subject to a “non-disclousure agreement”) was made in collaboration with the company Gobile. The project mainly consisted on the design of an artifical based software to address the problems in the design of a sales forece. This problem involves the solution of several interrelated problems: sizing the sales force, the problem of finding the appropiate number of salesman; salesmen location, the problem of selecting the location of each salesman in one sales covarage unit; sales territory alignment, the problem of grouping or clustering sales coverage unit into larger geographical groups; and sales resources allocation, the problem of assigning work hours of the salesman todifferent sales territories, considering also a broad set of restrictions which are normallyassociated to it.