At Price & Wallace Inc

At Price & Wallace Inc., a pharmaceuticals company, members of the sales force and marketing department tend to have disagreements when things go wrong with a customer. The marketers blame the salespeople for poorly executing their strategies, while the salespeople blame the marketers for being out of touch with customers. Which of the following steps should the higher management at Price & Wallace take to help bring the sales and marketing functions closer together?

A) establish a customer sales force structure and make sure that sales quotas are easily achievable
B) establish a complex sales force structure
C) emphasize traditional methods of selling
D) adopt a sales force automation system and implement team selling
E) appoint a high-level marketing executive to oversee both marketing and sales