COMMANDO

Channel Partner Program

Joining COMMANDO Channel Partner Program empowers partners with variety of financial incentives, tools, technology, and support to accelerate sales and business growth.

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COMMANDO Channel Partner Program is focused on accelerating your business growth and designed to help you checkmate your competition. The program offers extensive resources, training, incentives, engagements, and enablement to foster mutually profitable relationship. The program enables businesses to tap into COMMANDO's expertise, transform customer experience, open new market opportunities, and increase top and bottom lines.

One Program, Two Roles

The partnership is strategically classified into two, and are as follows:

1. Distributor

2. Reseller

Each level is further categorized based on partner expertise such as System Integrator, ISP, Data Center, E-Commerce, Retail etc. The classification of any given channel partner depends on the business model, business integration and expertise of such channel partner. The companies with operational presence in three (3) or more countries can apply for Global Distributor subject to meeting Eligibility criteria.

Joining COMMANDO Channel Partner Program empowers partners with variety of financial incentives, tools, technology, and support to accelerate sales and business growth.

Partner Benefits and Advantages

COMMANDO Channel Partner Program focuses on having fewer levels in a channel partnership structure to offer several strategic advantages for its partners such as reduced price, better control over price and margin, territories, and market.

Following are the highlights of Partner benefits and advantages offered to Channel Partners at Distributor level.

Credibility

The credibility is the greatest asset. Gaining customer trust, confidence and offer differentiation is ever-present challenge for businesses. Being Channel partner with brand that's trademarked registered in 150+ countries, including USA, European Union (EU), Africa, Middle East and more, brings recognition and reputation associated with it to your business. The privilege to be authorized to use its intellectual proprietary and copyrighted materials inculcate strong trust and confidence.

New Product Launch

Channel partners get the first-to-market opportunity on newly launched products. This helps benefitting on market excitement. You get the priority to offer your customers latest technologies and products. These offerings allow you more advantageous position by offering differentiation to more demanding customers. It positions you to increase your top and bottom line capturing more earning opportunities.

Price Privileges

Channel Partners are offered deeply discounted pricing making them more competitive in the market. Moreover, fewer levels in the distribution channel and intermediaries lead to lower overall costs for distributing products. This enables channel partners to offer competitive pricing to customers without compromising on margins.

Credit Facility / Payment Flexibility

COMMANDO may consider offering credit facility and/or payment flexibility to its eligible Channel Partners of Distributor level based on history and volume of transactions. This helps partners beat the competition, win more customers, increase sales, and gain that extra customer loyalty, improve cash flow, and fuel business growth.

New Market Opportunity and Privilege Access

COMMANDO makes genuine efforts to keep partner count limited so its channel partners have more control over their local market and ultimately better profit margins. The competition is not set to the neck allowing more space for channel partners to adjust their profit margins.

Incentive Program

Channel partners are offered exclusive Channel Sales Incentives and Trade Discounts. Moreover, Sales Performance Incentive Funds (SPIFs), Market Development Funds (MDFs), Cooperative Funding (Co-op funding), Channel Rebates, Deal Registration Incentives etc. are offered time to time.

Partner Portal

Access to Partner portal brings wealth of resources and tools to enable, inform and support your ability to sell efficiently.

Marketing Support

Channel partners are supported by marketing activities, marketing collaterals and more to bring more visibility for them and the brand. They are supported with Market Development Fund (MDF) to create more visibility and value.

Lead Generation

COMMANDO Distributors get access to established Reseller/Integrator Channel Partners in their respective countries. COMMANDO and its associates generate leads for Channel Partners via its website and direct marketing activities such as telemarketing and attending tradeshows/conferences. This brings them more business connections and opportunities.

Priority Support

Channel partners receive priority support on technical and non-technical matters including pre-sales and post-sales even during extended hours at more personalized and convenient platforms. They are further supported with documents, at times necessary, to submit tenders and bigger and important projects such as Manufacturer Authorization Form (MAF) and more.

Training and Certification

Channel partners are provided with training and certifications on technical as well as sales tracks. It gives them authenticity and recognition, helps them understand products better, and position them to offer more advantage and expretize to their markets.

Co-Development

Channel partners are offered opportunity to participate in co-development of COMMANDO products with their suggestions and feedback based on their observations and demand in the market. COMMANDO has the expertise to develop products with customized specifications on-demand.

Deal Registration

One business opportunity floats in the market to multiple players. The opportunity and business you get first are registered and protected with COMMANDO. You can register your deals and ensure not everyone is working on the same and/or have similar advantage as you.

Price Protection

Market is dynamic and hence prices vary too frequently. By the time you close the deal, many a times, it happens that the prices have already changed/increased putting you in challenging position to honor the deals. This can seriously jeopardize your cooperation with your clients. COMMANDO offers 30-day price protection on the quotes so you can stay on your price commitments with your clients without any last-minute surprises.

Analytics

Data is new oil. The Analytics offer insightful view of your market and the region overall. Channel partner gets access to valuable information about what’s going on around, what’s selling most and the least. These analytics help you make smarter decisions and bring more efficiency in your business.

Partner with COMMANDO to accelerate your sales, offer differentiation, unlock new revenue streams in the fast-growing technology landscape.
Offer value and enjoy faster revenue generation, higher profit margins, and unmatched support.

Checkmate your competition by partnering with COMMANDO.

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Partner Eligibility and Requirements

COMMANDO Channel Partner requirements are structured to ensure that partners possess the necessary expertise, market reach, and operational capabilities to effectively distribute and support COMMANDO products.

COMMANDO Partner Program classified into Distributor and Reseller requires specific capabilities to fulfil different customer needs. Partners must demonstrate the ability to deliver value to customers through specializations and certifications, participate in continuous learning, and meet sales and technical criteria suitable for their role and level within the program such as System Integrator, ISP, Data Center, E-Commerce, Retail etc.

Parameters Distributor Distributor - System Integrator
General Requirements
  • Existing Distributor of any reputed networking / IT brand
  • Focus on ICT
  • Strong distribution channel, marketing, networking, and collaboration capability
  • Possess business, technical, and financial acumen to stock large volumes
  • Prior networking product sales experience and market exposure
  • Proactive and engaging
  • Registered Legal Entity
  • Business Website and Email
  • Existing Distributor of any reputed networking / IT brand
  • Focus on ICT with expertise in System Integration
  • Strong distribution channel, marketing, networking, and collaboration capability
  • Possess business, technical, and financial acumen to stock large volumes
  • Prior system integration experience
  • Prior networking product sales experience and market exposure
  • Proactive and engaging
  • Registered Legal Entity
  • Business Website and Email
Sales Revenue
  • Yearly Sales Milestone: $$
  • Partnership Eligibility: Single $ order or $ cumulative in last 90 days.
  • Min 50% Sales revenue from Switch category
  • Yearly Sales Milestone: $$
  • Partnership Eligibility: Single $ order or $ cumulative in last 90 days.
  • Min 50% Sales revenue from Switch category
Marketing
  • Participate actively in Marketing activities
  • Integrate COMMANDO on company website, email, and other platforms
  • Conduct Events/Seminar/Webinar/Promotional activities for local IT Community
  • Participate actively in Marketing activities
  • Integrate COMMANDO on company website, email, and other platforms
  • Conduct Events/Seminar/Webinar/Promotional activities for local IT Community
Training and Certification
  • Product Portfolio Training: 4
  • COMMANDO Sales Certification: 2
  • COMMANDO Tech Certification: 2
  • Min Certification: 4
  • Product Portfolio Training: 4
  • COMMANDO Sales Certification: 2
  • COMMANDO Tech Certification: 2
  • Minimum Certification: 4
Team
  • Exclusive COMMANDO dept. with min 4 members
  • One designated COMMANDO Business Manager (CBM)
  • One designated COMMANDO Technology Manager (CTM)
  • Exclusive COMMANDO dept. with min 4 members
  • One designated COMMANDO Business Manager (CBM)
  • One designated COMMANDO Technology Manager (CTM)
Support
  • Level 1 and Level 2 Support (Helpdesk for basic to intermediate customer issues and services)
  • Customer Service, Call Back, Pre-Sales Support and Post-Sales Support
  • Escalation Process
  • Warranty and Replacement assistance if COMMANDO doesn’t have direct local presence.
  • Level 1 and Level 2 Support (Helpdesk for basic to intermediate customer issues and services)
  • Customer Service, Call Back, Pre-Sales Support, Post-Sales Support
  • Escalation Process
  • Warranty and Replacement assistance if COMMANDO doesn’t have direct local presence.
Review Meeting
  • Quarterly Business Review (QBR)
  • Quarterly Business Review (QBR)
Parameters Reseller Reseller - System Integrator
General Requirements
  • Registered Legal Entity
  • Focus on ICT
  • Prior networking brand sales experience and market exposure
  • Fulfill orders through an authorized COMMANDO Distributor
  • Proactive and engaging
  • Business Website and Email
  • Registered Legal Entity
  • Focus on ICT with expertise in System Integration
  • Prior system integration experience
  • Fulfill orders through an authorized COMMANDO Distributor
  • Proactive and engaging
  • Business Website and Email
Sales Revenue
  • Yearly Sales Milestone: $
  • Partnership Eligibility: Single $ order
  • Yearly Sales Milestone: $
  • Partnership Eligibility: Single $ order
Marketing
  • Integrate COMMANDO on company website, email, and other platforms
  • Integrate COMMANDO on company website, email, and other platforms
Training and Certification
  • Product Portfolio Training: 1
  • Product Portfolio Training: 1
  • COMMANDO Sales Certification: 1
  • COMMANDO Tech Certification: 1
  • Min Certification: 2
Team
  • Min 2 salesperson
  • Min 1 team member with sound technical knowledge
  • Level 1 Support (Helpdesk for basic customer issues and services)
  • Customer Service, Call Back, Basic Pre-Sales Support and Post-Sales Support
  • Escalation Process

Checkmate competition with COMMANDO

Grow and build a better future for your business with COMMANDO.

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Last updated: May 16, 2024