Senthil Kumar / Sales Consulting

Sales process and CRM consulting, built around how your team actually sells.

For founders building their first proper sales engine, and mid-market firms fixing one that no longer fits. Process design, workflow optimisation, and CRM implementation — Zoho and Odoo, configured to the way your team works.

PhasesDiscover · Design · Build
Duration6 to 16 weeks
CRM stackZoho One / Odoo
DeliveryOn-site + remote
Why consulting

Most sales teams don't have a process problem. They have an alignment problem. The CRM was set up by IT. The pipeline stages were copied from a template. The reps work around the system because the system was never built around them.

This work fixes that. I sit with the founder or sales leader, then with the reps, then with the people who handle quotes, orders, and dispatch. I map how a deal actually moves through the business — not how the org chart says it does. Then we redesign the workflow, configure the CRM to fit, and migrate the team onto it without breaking the running pipeline.

I have implemented Zoho One and Odoo for clients across manufacturing, contracting, and B2B services. The deliverable is not a CRM login — it is a sales engine that runs.

What's involved

Workstreams that typically run inside a consulting engagement.

M01

Sales process audit

Mapping the current state — how leads come in, how deals progress, where they leak, what data is captured, what is not. Honest written findings.

M02

Workflow redesign

Redesigning each stage of the funnel with the people who actually work it. Clear stage definitions, exit criteria, handoffs, and ownership.

M03

CRM selection

Zoho One, Odoo, or something custom — depending on team size, budget, and complexity. A real recommendation, not a vendor pitch.

M04

CRM build & configuration

Pipeline structure, custom fields, automations, role permissions, integrations with quoting, email, telephony, and where relevant — production or dispatch.

M05

Quote-to-cash flow

For teams selling configured or technical products: connecting the quote, the order, the production handover, and the invoice. Where most SMEs leak time and trust.

M06

Data migration

Cleaning and moving existing leads, accounts, contacts, and open deals from spreadsheets, legacy CRMs, or WhatsApp groups, without losing context.

M07

Reporting & dashboards

Building the three or four reports that actually run the business — pipeline coverage, stage velocity, conversion math, and rep activity. Not 40 dashboards no one opens.

M08

Adoption & handover

Training the team on the new workflow, sitting with managers for the first cycles, and handing over documentation that survives the next hire.

What changes

What you get at the end of the engagement.

  • A documented sales process that the team uses — not one that lives in a folder on a shared drive.
  • A working CRM, configured to your actual workflow, with adoption above the level that makes the data trustworthy.
  • Clear stage definitions, so 'qualified' means the same thing to every rep and every manager.
  • Reports leadership can use to make decisions, instead of monthly reviews that feel like archaeology.
  • A quote-to-cash flow that doesn't lose deals between sales, operations, and finance.
  • A team that owns the new process — because they helped build it.
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Scope a consulting engagement.

Every engagement starts with a discovery call and a short written diagnostic — no commitment, no template proposal. Once we both know what the work looks like, we scope it properly.

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