MANUFACTURING

Solutions for the manufacturing industry

• Creating a 360° customer view

  Manufacturing companies often offer a broad variety of different products. Take a consumer electronics manufacturer, for example. Their product range can go from laptops, monitors, smartphones, tablets to keyboards, mouses, headphones, etc. 

  
  

  That’s why we advise on collecting different types of customer data centrally. Those data types can include demographic information (age, location, gender, etc.), online behavioral data (engagement with website pages, social media, marketing emails, etc) and purchase data. As more and more manufacturing companies are launching their own webshops, this is also an important data source to add here.

  
  

  This information is useful for the different customer-facing teams so they can use it in their different activities. Marketing can use it to segment the customers and improve targeting: a customer that bought a monitor, for example, could also be a good lead for a keyboard. Sales reps can reach out with more relevant proposals to existing customers. And service teams can react faster and be on top of the customer’s situation to provide the best support.

  

• Getting your people on board

  Change management is very important when it comes to implementing new technologies and processes. Making sure people are adopting the new workflows and system is not self-evident, but key to avoiding human mistakes or even reluctance to use the new tools, which would result in a loss of data and opportunities.

  Therefore, we make sure the key users can give their input during workshops, and we give training on the new processes and tools to use. The collaboration doesn’t necessarily end after the implementation is done. We’re still there for support and regularly ask for your feedback during catch-up meetings. That way, together we can continue to optimize things from both a functional and technical perspective.