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What is the difference between production managers and sales manager?

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Question added by liz albert
Date Posted: 2016/10/13

What IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ENGINEER AND GENERAL FOREMAN

Zameer Pasha
by Zameer Pasha , Sales Manager , Phoenix Global

Production manager is a person who is responsible for the process of making or manufacturing the products that the customers of any business purchases.

Sales Manager is a person who is responsible for selling the finished products or services to the paying customers. 

Fahad Nezamy
by Fahad Nezamy , Store Officer , Pakistan International Airlines

Production manager controls and deal all the matters regarding the production of product on the other hand sales manager is someone who is responsible for leading and guiding a team of sales people in an organization.

iftikhar ahmad
by iftikhar ahmad , joneyar , jd

sale manejar 

is a campaletale sarvay  parodact  and manejar cantrol is all wasy paodact  manejar warkar and responetvelly 

 

Tayyaba Rasheed
by Tayyaba Rasheed , coordinator, Lecturer , Allied School, AIOU

Production manager controls and deal all the matters regarding the production of product on the other hand sales manager make strategies and policies that how to sell that product. or in short you can say production manager controls the internal matters and sales manager controls the external matters

Mohamed Al Sadek
by Mohamed Al Sadek , Trainee , Arabi Bank

Production Manager Its Technical Work For Production Line And Can Took Info From Sales Manager To Control Quantity And Sales Manager Who Put Selling Strategy To Max Profit Of Sales And Goods

Shakeel Ahmed
by Shakeel Ahmed , Credit Controller , VPL Limited

Production Manager :  involved with the planning, coordination and control of manufacturing processes. You'll make sure goods and services are produced efficiently and that the correct amount is produced at the right cost and level of quality.

 

Sales Manager : A sales manager plays a key role in the success and failure of an organization. He is the one who plays a pivotal role in achieving the sales targets and eventually generates revenue for the organization.

Duncan Robertson
by Duncan Robertson , Strategy Consultant , Duncan Robertson Consultancy

Production manager is in charge of making it.

Sales manager is in charge of selling it.

ASHRAF ALI SHAIK
by ASHRAF ALI SHAIK , Data Computerization & Assistant Accountant , PEPSI COLA India Marketing Company

The first one is Plural and the second one is Singular. In case of activities, The Production Managers have to share or distribute all the production process management from purchase of raw material to process and make it a competitive finished product to lead even new customers as well as market with better profits to the industry.

Where as the Sales Manager has to obtain the entire knowledge of the product which he or she is going to sell in the open market or at the customer outlet and take necessary plan to promote the product through proper channel to popular it for better sales with max profit. 

 

Both are inter related for any business to brring success of it.

Nadjib RABAHI
by Nadjib RABAHI , Freelancer , My own account

The manager of production must choose machines and methods, plan and control the methods and procedures for their use. He is responsible for managing the workflow of raw materials to process and information. Vis-a-vis the financial means, the production manager is responsible for the cost of equipment and the choice of volume of stock in way to decide between good customer service guaranteed by adequate stocks and a risk of over-investment in stocks.

The sales manager must develop a good product, set a fair price and choose a better distribution system. He manages the sales force (recruitment, training and motivation), defined the sales sector, either geographically or by product or by type of customer and fixes sales quotas (goals sale), price policy, distribution and marketing of political policy

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