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Accelerating Customer Service with BPM

Key Points

  • The company prioritizes customer service by equipping field salespeople with streamlined, efficient processes.
  • Faster response times are a key metric for both customers and internal IT, driving the adoption of BPM as an agile solution.
  • Implementing a BPM‑based cooler ordering system reduced back‑office effort from 283 hours to 26.5 hours by providing real‑time stock visibility to over 300 field reps.
  • Collaborating closely with business stakeholders during development ensures user interfaces that enhance productivity rather than hinder it.
  • Customer‑centric BPM workflows enable smoother onboarding, bar takeovers, and equipment requests, ultimately delivering a more professional and improved customer experience.

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# Accelerating Customer Service with BPM **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaON2ArJFf0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaON2ArJFf0) **Duration:** 00:03:40 ## Summary - The company prioritizes customer service by equipping field salespeople with streamlined, efficient processes. - Faster response times are a key metric for both customers and internal IT, driving the adoption of BPM as an agile solution. - Implementing a BPM‑based cooler ordering system reduced back‑office effort from 283 hours to 26.5 hours by providing real‑time stock visibility to over 300 field reps. - Collaborating closely with business stakeholders during development ensures user interfaces that enhance productivity rather than hinder it. - Customer‑centric BPM workflows enable smoother onboarding, bar takeovers, and equipment requests, ultimately delivering a more professional and improved customer experience. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaON2ArJFf0&t=0s) **Accelerating Field Sales with BPM** - The speaker describes how implementing Business Process Management speeds up customer service and field ordering, transforming a cumbersome, data‑poor workflow into a fast, data‑driven process. ## Full Transcript
0:07[Music] 0:29for us customer service is key priority 0:33[Music] 0:38so we are constantly striving towards 0:41providing a good customer service and we 0:43can do that by making sure that our 0:45field salespeople have the best possible 0:47processes to execute on 0:51[Music] 0:58our customers tend to look at their own 1:01processes and one of the ways I measure 1:02cost is how long does it take to get 1:04something done one of the ways they 1:06measure their customer experience is how 1:07long does it take us to respond and so 1:09that pressure to improve the speed and 1:11responsiveness of an organization works 1:13its way backward as they eliminate those 1:16requirements then the IT team has to say 1:18how can we deliver the technical 1:20solutions faster and just so happens BPM 1:22is like the ideal technology for the 1:25problem having an agile business for us 1:27to accelerate some of the edge processes 1:29and really taking core activities and 1:31orchestrating them across the 1:33organization is really something that is 1:36changing as an example we've actually 1:38implemented the ordering of coolers on 1:40BPM ordering of Google's sounds simple 1:42and it is when you have 300 plus people 1:46in the field is they constantly need to 1:48know stock level what's available of the 1:51different assortments which types is 1:52available for which type of customers by 1:54implementing the process on BPM we've 1:57actually gone from a old-fashioned data 2:02non-driven 2:03world into something where we can 2:05streamline everything that we do in this 2:07so part of the results on they're 2:09implementing the coolest process is the 2:11reduction of back office hours we no 2:13longer have to send out manual Excel 2:15sheets updated with stock level etc the 2:18consultant in the field can now do this 2:20real-time that also means that we have 2:22gone a significant reduction from 283 to 2:2626 and a half hours of back-office spend 2:29just for the kula process 2:32[Music] 2:36so in our partnership with Carlsberg I 2:38think another thing to mention that is 2:40really interesting is the pressure that 2:41they have to deliver great user 2:43interface for their business users and 2:44the right style of interaction for their 2:46users so it's not just about how it 2:48looks but also how it behaves how it 2:49interacts how it either improves or 2:51impedes their productivity every time we 2:54develop the process we have business 2:56representatives as part of the 2:58development with the developers by 3:00having the developers and the business 3:02representatives working closely you 3:04don't have to go back and start 3:05promoting it they will automatically 3:07take that process back into their 3:08organization and make that live business 3:11is now embracing business changes in the 3:13processes because what we're providing 3:15is what the business law by having 3:18processes on BPM that are very customer 3:20centric we can offer our consultants a 3:23better platform to execute the 3:25activities that we have towards our 3:27customers whether being a new customers 3:29that we are onboarding whether it's a 3:30customer taking over a bar from somebody 3:32else or customer needing a new cooler we 3:35can provide a more professional service 3:37and a better customer experience