Business case example:
Company 'X' is involved in IT services and software & hardware support for
local businesses. 'X' has grown over the years to 16 separate branches spread
out over the country. Each branch offers services for local companies in
the district.
Challenges
- Billing problems: some of the customers had multiple contracts with
several branches at the same time and caused confusion and errors in the
billing process, as each branch carried out the billing themselves.
- Redundancy of data: some clients were served by different branches concurrently.
If client details changed, changes were registered only in one branch,
thus causing conflicting customer information between branches.
- Communication problem: tasks, action lists and follow ups weren't centralised
resulting in a substandard service organization.
- Missing centralised overview of operations: the management had to go
through great efforts to accumulate all relevant data, reports from all
branches.
Solutions
- A department has been setup the deals with all invoicing for all branches,
and resulted in a reliable billing procedure.
- Redundancy of data was eliminated as one client was now registered in
one system only. Changes to a client record would automatically affect
all branches.
- Fescalo's Call Management tool made sure all employees and sales managers
communicate centralised. Task, proposals, customer service are now professionally
monitored and executed.
- Since all branches work on one central system now, all data can be queried
and retrieved at the press of a button.
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