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    AES Case Study — Retail & Fashion

    From 20% to 85% Adoption: A Fashion Retailer's Salesforce Turnaround

    How KVP's 6-step Adoption & Enhancement Services framework rebuilt user trust, simplified the org, and unlocked 60% sales productivity gains for a multi-brand fashion portfolio.

    150+ Users
    6-Month Turnaround
    Multi-Brand Retail

    Team

    150+ users

    Industry

    Multi-brand fashion

    Timeline

    6 months

    Outcome

    85% adoption

    Customer Background

    A leading South Asian fashion retailer with a multi-brand portfolio spanning premium apparel, accessories and lifestyle. Operating 200+ retail stores, an active e-commerce channel and a large wholesale franchise network, the business had invested in Salesforce three years earlier to unify sales, merchandising, store operations and customer data.

    Despite multiple implementation partners and a sizable internal admin team, adoption never crossed 20%. Leadership was on the verge of writing off the investment when KVP was engaged.

    The Challenges We Inherited

    • Adoption stalled below 20%

      Sales reps bypassed Salesforce, logging deals in spreadsheets. Leadership couldn't trust pipeline numbers.

    • Over-customised, slow screens

      Lead and opportunity pages had 80+ fields with conditional logic, taking 3–4 minutes to load on store iPads.

    • Poor data quality

      Duplicate accounts, inconsistent SKU codes and missing contact details made segmentation impossible.

    • Reporting chaos

      Six versions of the same revenue report. Regional heads built shadow Excel models every Monday.

    • No mobile story

      Store managers and merchandisers were desk-bound. Field activity capture was virtually nil.

    • Eroded leadership trust

      After two failed enhancement attempts, the CIO was preparing a business case to retire the platform.

    KVP Methodology

    The AES 6-Step Turnaround Workflow

    Our Adoption & Enhancement Services framework treats Salesforce as a living product — not a project. Each phase compounds value from the previous one, restoring confidence within weeks.

    01

    Audit & Assessment

    Week 1–3

    • Profile, layout & automation audit
    • Adoption analytics by team & geography
    • Data hygiene scoring
    • Stakeholder workshops
    02

    Quick Wins & Simplification

    Week 4–8

    • Page layout simplification
    • Removed 60% redundant fields
    • Streamlined approval flows
    • Mobile UX overhaul
    03

    Pre-built Assets Enablement

    Week 9–12

    • KVP retail starter kit deployed
    • Store-visit playbook
    • Pre-built dashboards
    • Lead-to-order accelerator
    04

    Automation & Enhancement

    Week 13–18

    • Auto-assignment rules
    • Visit scheduling automation
    • POS data integration
    • Einstein activity capture
    05

    Continuous Improvement

    Ongoing

    • Bi-weekly enhancement releases
    • Backlog grooming with business
    • Health-check scorecards
    • AES support tickets
    06

    Adoption & Change Management

    Throughout

    • Persona-based training
    • Floor-walks at go-live
    • Champion network
    • Adoption gamification

    What We Actually Built

    Persona-Based Lightning Pages

    Separate compact layouts for store managers, regional heads, merchandisers and CXOs. Average screen load dropped from 4s to under 1s.

    Master Data Governance

    Deduplication rules, SKU master cleansing, account-hierarchy ownership and weekly data-health scorecards published to leadership.

    Mobile-First Store Experience

    Salesforce Mobile + Field Service for store visits, stock checks, visual merchandising audits and customer add-to-loyalty flows.

    One Source of Truth Dashboards

    Six conflicting reports replaced by 12 governed CRM Analytics dashboards — same numbers in every Monday review.

    Automation Without Disruption

    Flows for lead routing, visit scheduling, approval shortcuts and reorder reminders — built incrementally with rollback safety nets.

    Adoption Operating Model

    Champion network across 12 regions, monthly office hours, in-app guidance via Walkthroughs and a gamified leaderboard.

    Results That Restored Confidence

    85%

    Active user adoption

    Up from <20% in 6 months

    60%

    Sales productivity gain

    Measured by reps' time on customer-facing work

    200%

    Improvement in data quality

    Master-data scorecard YoY

    40%

    Reduction in manual processes

    Approval, allocation, reporting flows

    50%

    Faster reports & dashboards

    From hours of reconciliation to real-time

    0

    Shadow Excel reports

    in regional review meetings

    "KVP's AES framework didn't just fix our Salesforce — it changed how we think about CRM as a product. For the first time in three years, leadership reviews use the same numbers from the same system."

    — Chief Information Officer, Retail Group

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