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Customer Complaints/Nonconformance Management System
Overview
A major US
household product manufacturer, which has
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A Call Center in the US
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10 distribution centers around the world
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8 manufacturing
facilities in China
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Over 150 OEM suppliers around the world
Major Issues
Prior to employing QIT Customer Complaint
Management system, the company used a database based on Lotus
Note to management customer complaints.
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The QA engineers spent
60% of their time on tracking CARs with local factories and OEM
suppliers and prepared reports for senior management.
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Ironically, similar problems happened again and again despite
the local factories and supplier have reported the root causes
have been resolved.
Solutions and New Business
Process:
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Customers/consumers in the US and UK are able
to submit their concerns and complaints through internet
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Customer service representatives at the call
center in the US are able to log in customer complaints from
800 service calls, emails and faxes
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Sales representatives around the world are
able to enter customer complaints and any concerns about the
products
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QA Managers in the US HQ and China divisions
are able to review and analysis customers complaints and
define failure mode and customer usage pattern
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QA managers and engineers
then are able to issue CARs right after the product audits or
whenever any issue was found
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Local plants
and OEM suppliers can retrieve CAR info and send corrective
action right into a centralized database without emails back and forth
Specific results were impressive
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Establish a
global problem solving system in just few months with a
affordable cost
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No headcount
increase was needed to facilitate and maintain the program
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Customer
Service,
Sales, Quality and Supplier Management Departments from
around the world to share real-time information online and
focus on providing effective solutions for customers issues
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Cost saving of
2 million/year* by effectively communicate the issues
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Shortened
problem solving cycle-time by 50%
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