Multinational machinery supplier dominates the plastics processing industry for 50+ years

Aajogo makes it easier for Krauss-Maffei’s reaction process machinery division to scale its sales operations.

Krauss-Maffei Corporation was founded in 1966 and is a leading manufacturer of plastics processing machinery. As the US headquarters of the Munich-based KraussMaffei Group, Krauss-Maffei Corporation is the only North American company with expertise in injection molding, extrusion, and reaction process machinery.

Seeking to streamline its quoting and sales pipeline, Krauss-Maffei’s reaction process machinery division began evaluating CRM solutions. “Before discovering Aajogo, our sales team relied on a combination of spreadsheets and document routing apps,” said Seth Rodden, Regional Sales Manager, Composites at Krauss-Maffei. “We needed an enterprise-grade CRM that could automate our quoting process and streamline our sales management workflow.”

Seth Rodden Regional Sales Manager, Composites

Intuitive interface, powerful workflows

Having implemented other third-party CRMs for prior employers, Rodden knew that Krauss-Maffei needed a CRM that was both easy to use and highly adaptable to the company’s complex s

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ales and quoting processes. “We considered a few homegrown solutions, but they were too simplistic for our needs,” Rodden said. “We also considered Salesforce CRM, but we felt like the user interface was not a great fit for our needs.”

Realizing the need for an intuitive CRM that offered workflow automation, the team turned to Aajogo.

“Aajogo’s user interface is pleasant to look at and very user-friendly,” Rodden said. “We also liked Aajogo’s workflow feature, which aligned with our desire to automate as much as possible.”

Smooth onboarding, rapid adoption

Aajogo’s customer success team and online support library expedited onboarding for all of Krauss-Maffei’s users. “Getting people to accept change isn’t always easy, but we had no problem rolling out Aajogo to our team,” Rodden said. “We enjoyed working with Aajogo’s customer support group and found the documentation to be very helpful.”

Smooth onboarding freed up more time to customize Aajogo to the team’s exact needs. “A colleague and I collaborated to customize Aajogo through the back-end interface,” Rodden said. “After configuring our preferred settings, required fields, and workflows, we created internal best practice guides that were distributed to the sales team.”

Efficiency, accountability, and communication

Successfully implementing Aajogo has elevated the division’s efficiency from a sales process perspective. “Aajogo automates our quoting process that contained 63 decision nodes and elements,” Rodden said. “As a quote moves through the pipeline, we simply click a box to advance it to the next stage and remind stakeholders to take action.”

Leveraging Aajogo as the sales team’s central source of truth has led to enhanced transparency, more accurate forecasts, and better data. “Sales reps are now more accountable to the data that they input into the system,” Rodden said. “As a result, we now have more reliable data and forecasts.”

Scheduled reports feed key business metrics to users who are spread across different geographic locations. “Reporting has been our biggest gain from adopting Aajogo,” Rodden said. “Aajogo makes it easier for everyone to get the information they need, regardless of where they’re physically located.”

Optimizing for the future

Looking ahead, the team plans to add more users and build additional data-driven reports in Aajogo. Migrating the team’s project management activity into Aajogo may also be on the horizon. “Our project management team uses some very complex spreadsheet macros to track projects,” Rodden said. “Moving our projects into Aajogo could offer additional efficiency and reduce overlapping data sources.”