SHI
Cisco
General Tech/Sales/Business
Acronyms
Hodgepodge
100

This person is SHI's President, CEO, and Founder.

Who is Thai Lee?

100

This type of number is used to identify a specific opportunity between SHI and Cisco.

What is a Deal ID (DID)?

100

This category of company assists customers with acquiring products that cannot be obtained directly from the product maker. They frequently provide other services to make their selling strategy more appealing.

What is a reseller or VAR?

100

AM

What is Account Manager?

100

Kapil uses this concept to convey an individual's personal and/or professional goals, aspirations, or mantras.

What is a bumper sticker?

200

This Senior Vice President oversees Partners, Products, Solutions, & Services. 

Who is Kapil Bansal?

200

These are the 3 Cisco departments that tree up to Aleesa Foltz, Victoria Delomel, and Richard Barton

What are Cisco Operations, Cisco Sales, and Customer Success and Acquisition?

200

This category of company creates products and services that are used or consumed by the customer.

What is the manufacturer or OEM?

200

CCW

What is Cisco Commerce Workspace?

200

This platform on their website is what Cisco uses to publish their trainings for partners as well as their in-house employees.

What is SalesConnect?

300

Name a field region that was in the top 3 for Cisco GM invoiced in H1 of 2023.

Where is West, Northeast, or TOLA?

300

This number is used to identify a Cisco configuration that has been created.

What is a(n) Estimate ID or Bill of Materials (BOM)?

300

This job role enhances a customers' satisfaction while using a product or service. 

What is a Customer Success Manager or CSM?

300

CSM

What is Customer Success Manager?

300

These are our 3 main distributors who we are authorized to purchase Cisco through.

What are Ingram Micro, TD Synnex, and D&H?

400

These people-leaders report to the Sr. Director of Partner Management Operations, Aleesa Foltz. (Name 5 of 7)

Alexa Frost

Brittany Phillips

Christian Walsh

David Baum

Ray Bernard

Russell Simmons

Shari Nowack

400

Cisco's products fall under these 4 architectures.

What are Collaboration, Data Center, Networking, and Security?

400

This executive typically manages an organization's cash flow. 

What is CFO or Chief Financial Officer?

400

EA. Bonus points (200) for a description

What is Enterprise Agreement? Bonus: A large, multi-year subscription contract.

400

This is the description for SHI's Master Hold.

What is "the number that we reference to pull from Tech Data's inventory for improved lead times"?

OR

What is "The method Tech Data uses to reserve stock of certain Cisco parts exclusively for SHI's sales teams"?

500

These Sales Segment/Business Unit Leaders report directly to Thai. Give 4 of 7.

Who are Celeste Lee, Melissa Graham, David Olzak, Eric Guthrie, Brian McGrath, Denise Collison, and Tom Ducatelli?

500

This type of Cisco hardware has limited availability and cannot be placed on backorder. It is allocated strictly on a first come, first served basis. 

What is RF/Refurb(ished)/Remanufactured/Refresh?

500

This term is defined as "the people, organizations and activities that make goods and services available for use by consumers". We have a dedicated ________ Account Manager at Cisco that manages the SHI/Cisco relationship, Dave Wooster.

What is Channel?

500

DSV

What is Distribution Sales Visibility?

500

These "CORP core values" have been adopted as the unofficial SHI Cisco Organization core values. Name 4 of 6.

What are..?

Commit to long term growth
Choose to win
Act with integrity
Be ridiculously helpful
Own it
Be authentically you

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