Customer contact

So, UPS is big and UPS is global. It has over 14 million customer deliveries every day to nearly 8 million customers. Its customer contact points include 3,700 UPS stores in the United States, 1,500 global Mail Box, etc. stores, 1,000 UPS customer centers, 18,000 UPS authorized outlets, and 45,000 UPS drop boxes. UPS is focused on efficiency and productivity and recently spent over 10 billion integrating its processes and technology to make the company a real-time 24/7/365-day operation. 

The main advantages of agents are their longstanding networks of customer contacts and knowledge of the local conditions. This is particularly important if customers and suppliers are part of different cultures, like East and West. Japanese trading houses, like Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsui, Sumitomo Corporation, and Watanabe, have an immense experience in bridging the gap. 

Face-to-face customer contacts have been indicated above as the most efficient tool for the safeguarding of existing and acquisition of new business. Customer visits are a three-step effort, namely, preparative deskwork, the visit itself, and the follow-up, which all need careful attention. For details, see Appendix A.7, Checklist for Customer Visit. A tailored 20-30-min company presentation is the centrepiece of the visit. An example for the contents is given in Appendix A.8, Outline for a Company Presentation. 

Internal customer contact External customer contact Creation/revision date Job description summary Essential duties and responsibilities Supervisory responsibilities Qualification requirements Education and/or experience Language skills Mathematical skills Reasoning ability... 

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Combining Easy TCA with appropriate post-peel cosmeceuticals helps improve and maintain results. The cosmeceuticals should be applied the day after the first peel and continued between sessions and for at least 6 weeks after the last application. As with any peel, effective sun protection is necessary to make up for the temporary loss of the stratum corneum. Easy TCA causes the skin to flake, but not so much as to disrupt the patient s social life, although certain activities may be compromised television presenting, customer contact in the food industry, etc. Easy Phytic is recommended in these cases as there is almost no visible flaking of the skin (see Chapter 11). 

The R D results which offer greatest opportunity for commercialization in terms of ROI are in the area of existing business because of management capability, customer contacts, existing investment in pertinent facilities and equipment and experienced staff. 

In Section 2, we will explore the nature of services. In Section 3, we wUl discuss the service encounter, which is at the heart of the majority of service organizations. During the service encounter, service quality is rendered to the customer in the interplay among customer, customer-contact service employee, and service organization. In Section 4, we will focus on defining service quality and discuss the conceptual model of service quality, a framework for the management of service quality. In Section 6, we will describe a measurement instrument, SERVQUAL, that has been derived from this model. In Section 7, we will present a critical review of the conceptual model of service quality and the SERVQUAL instrument. 

The evaluation of the service encounter can be approached from several perspectives (Bateson 1985 Czepiel et al. 1985) (1) an organizational perspective, (2) a customer perspective, and (3) a customer-contact service employee perspective. The service oiganization is mainly interested in the performance of the customer-contact service employee because this perspective allows the service organization to attain its objectives. It is therefore essential for the service organization to identify organizational factors that affect the performance of service employees. The customer is mainly... 

The marketing field has concentrated mainly on the service customer. The customer-contact service employee has been relatively neglected in marketing academia (cf HartUne and Ferrell 1996). One notable exception is the conceptual model of service quality (Parasuraman et al. 1985), where perceived service quality is determined by four organizational gaps. This model was later extended by adding organizational control and communication processes (Zeithaml et al. 1988). In the next section, we will explore the definition of service quality, which is used as the basis for conceptual model of service quality. 

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Satisfaction measures look at the extent to which customers are satisfied with the service they have received. Customer satisfaction must be measured for each area of customer contact that affects the customer s decision to buy. In order to get a full understanding of the benefits and costs of service quality, customer satisfaction surveys should ask how satisfied customers are with a service encounter, what problems were experienced, whether assistance to answer a question or solve a problem was sought and where the customer sought advice, how many people the customer told about the experience, costs incurred by both servers and customers to prevent and correct poor service, and whether the customer intends to purchase the product or service again. 

Armed with the facts collected in the first stage, reengineering teams identify areas for improvement. They analyze where value was added for the final customer, with particular emphasis on customer contact points and product information transfers that are currently ineffective or inefficient. After identification of improvement points the creative phase of redesigning business process and information flow begins. The outcomes of the creative phase will fundamentally change both the nature of the work and how it is performed. 

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The Internet can help companies lower costs throughout their supply chain. It is also possible to use the Internet to improve customer service. Industry is just starting to use the Internet, but as industrial leaders begin to use it they will force others in their industry to do the same thing. Both large firms and small firms will embrace the Internet over the next few years. The computer industry has already done so. As the use of the Internet allows decreased costs and increased customer contact, these firms will become more competitive and put increasing pressure on their competition to take the same steps. 

Customer Contact (1) Capital Intensity (4) People-based Equipment based Customer involvement (3) Production Process (12) Employee Directions (6)... 

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