Customer interface

The typical focus for a quality system is at the operations level. ISO 9000 is seen as an initiative for work process improvement. The documentation is often developed at the work process level and focused on functions. Much of the effort is focused on the processes within the functions rather than across the functions and only involves the business level at the customer interface, as illustrated in Table 2-1. 

The majority of chemical companies offer a wide range of channel alternatives -e-channels, direct sales, customer service, third party distribution, technical service. This multi-channel approach has greatly increased customer flexibility and the choice of alternative relationship models, but has done little to reduce the investment in direct customer interface capabilities or to differentiate players service offerings. Primarily, it has added complexity and costs to the delivery system. 

Creating a low cost customer interface model for specific segments that provides only the bare necessities to complete a transaction. 

The main use of enumerated libraries is to calculate properties which are useful when deciding whether to make an entire library, use a given reagent or selectively make certain products. These calculations are required prior to synthesis and are often performed by computational chemists as a service to the organic chemists performing the synthesis. This information can also be used to generate files for custom interfaces to automatic synthesisers. 

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In the following section, we will discuss how best to leverage e-commerce strategically and operationally to maximize the value at the customer interface, a focus which is also relevant to its mirror image of purchasing. Process cost reductions will not be separately addressed because of their lack of differentiating power. 

Industry networks. The natural owners are the incumbents in this case, too, because they own the existing customer interface and can provide the e-channel with the necessary liquidity to make its value proposition work. The industry networks may create the highest value from access to the customer interface, which will eventually be developed into a close relationship. Therefore, the emergence of this e-channel is a true discontinuity for the marketing and sales approach which will fundamentally change the way business is conducted in the relevant segments of the chemical industry. 

The salesman must recognize and adapt himself to these and other inevitable changes as part of the cost of competitive survival. Some of these will undoubtedly become sources of trouble at customer interfaces... 

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To tackle these challenges, it is necessary that customers and the company share a context-coherent framework. Product configuration has been commonly used as a viable approach, primarily because it enables both sides to share the same design domain. Based on the product configuration approach, the value chain, which includes the customer interface, can be divided into four stages ... 

New customer interfaces lead to improved communications and better predictions of customer demand, which leads to improved service for customers. Customer service teams work with customers to identify further and eliminate sources of demand variability. Performance evaluations are undertaken to analyze the levels of service provided to customers as well as customer profitability. 

While this interface shortcoming has long been identified, it has only recently been addressed. With the 1.20 release of BioPSE/SCIRun (in October 2003), we introduced PowerApps. A PowerApp is a customized interface built atop a dataflow application network. The dataflow network controls the execution and synchronization of the modules that comprise the application, but the generic UI windows are replaced with entries that are placed in the context of a single application-specific interface window. 

Interviews highlighted that uniform practices between a customer and the company s different business imits were desirable. If changes occur, for instance, if new personnel become involved in customer service, smooth service would continue if practices in the customer interface were systematic and approved. Also binnbling and unnecessary repetition of the same procediues were estimated to decrease when practices between the customer and company are similar. The credibihty of operations was also estimated to improve if procediues were systematic and uniform. 

Commerce portal, where asingle customer interface was offered for all applications. 

Gunesh, R., Hamilton, J. (2003). Incorporating customer interface marketing design elements to... 

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