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Back in the ’80s, sales reps migrated their Rolodexes to DOS programs to keep tabs on their top customers and most exciting prospects. Fast-forward 30 years later, and Complexica aims to leapfrog the likes of Salesforce with "Larry", a ‘Digital Analyst’ in the cloud that is already helping the like of Bunzl, DuluxGroup and PFD Foods to sift through datasets to match the right offers at the right time to the right customers. 

Dulux Group partnered with Complexica for its Customer Opportunity Profiler to make its in-field salespeople more efficient. “[It is] a key tool for sales staff to optimise their daily activities, personalise conversations and interactions with customers, and analyse data to generate actionable insights,” 
says Stephen Mooney,
 the paint maker’s Group Sales
 Capability Manager.

Bunzl Group is a distributor of products such as food packaging and cleaning supplies for businesses. For Bunzl, ensuring its 300 account managers spent less time in front of screens and more in face-to-face meetings was a key factor in deploying Larry. “Complexica’s Order Management System and Larry… empower decision making and enhanced support
," says Kim Hetherington, Managing Director of Bunzl Australasia.

Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for optimising sales and marketing decisions, announced today that Bunzl has gone live with Complexica's Order Management System (OMS) for in-field sales reps and customer service staff. Complexica’s Order Management System (OMS) is powered by Larry, the Digital Analyst®, and provides sales, telesales, and customer service staff with advanced capabilities for intelligent quoting, order processing, and guided selling.

Bunzl is an international distribution and outsourcing company headquartered in the United Kingdom with revenues in excess of AU$10 billion and operations spanning across 29 countries. The company supports businesses all over the world with a diverse range of non-food consumable products that are essential for their customers to successfully operate their businesses. Its customers include healthcare, caterers, facility managers, retailers, food processors and industry. Bunzl is listed on the London Stock Exchange FTSE100 Index and employs more than 15,000 staff globally. For more information about Bunzl, please visit: www.bunzl.com

Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for optimising sales and marketing activities, announced today that it has signed a contract with Bunzl for the deployment of its Order Management System (OMS) for in-field sales reps and customer service staff. Complexica’s Order Management System (OMS) is powered by Larry, the Digital Analyst®, and provides sales, telesales, and customer service staff with advanced capabilities for intelligent quoting, order processing, CRM, and guided-selling.

“Given we supply over 10,000 customers with an extensive product range in excess of 40,000 SKUs, there is a high level of complexity our team needs to manage on a day-to-day basis,” said Kim Hetherington, CEO of Bunzl Australasia. “To help our sales team focus on what they do best – provide maximum customer service and value to our customers – we have partnered with Complexica to provide real time information by automating processes to reduce inherent complexity, particularly in the areas of in-field quoting and order processing. Complexica’s Order Management System and Larry, the Digital Analyst will provide our sales team of more than 300 with real-time analytics, insights, to empower decision making and enhanced support. This will create more time for our teams to enable them to see more customers each day and provide the Bunzl personalised experience.”

Bunzl Australasia, the local division of the 13,000-staff worldwide outsourcing giant, has turned to artificial intelligence vendor Complexica to help its team manage the "high level of complexity" that comes with 10,000 customers and more than 40,000 SKUs. Complexica, based in Adelaide, has won the contract to deploy its order management system (OMS) for in-field sales reps and customer service staff. The system, which runs on Amazon Web Services, is powered by 'Larry', which Complexica dubs a 'Digital Analyst'.

Larry was the creation of a company rich in PhD talent; Complexica boasts a deep bench of scientific advisors and is run by managing director Matthew Michalewicz, his father and chief scientist Dr Zbigniew "Mike" Michalewicz, and chief software architect Constantin Chiriac. The roster boasts data scientists and is supported by multiple universities.