Question

Sales management and distribution management are parallel functions

Answer 1

yes they r parralel
if we r saling something we should properly distribute it.
hope helped

Answer 2

Sales management is a vast filed that deals with different aspects selling products and revenue earning, etc.

Distribution management is one of the aspects of sales management that helps in distributing a product in a way that helps to catch the target audience with better TAT.

This is the reasons sales management and distribution management should by symbiotic to each other to extract best ROI for the organization.