Overview
At Orbit Care we were hired to make sense of a lack of information and stock management. Before we carried out any work we were hired to help audit them first, as management were extremely busy with day to day and growth, and help gain back control of the business.
We identified that the 3 key areas they were struggling with.
From a customer service point of view, lack of training on parts and projects, overpromising or not know the projects enough to communicate with customers. The lack of tracked information and communications, too often calls would be taken and notes not left, follow ups with customers would be missed or generally callbacks if lack of knowledge would not be followed up on.
Stock and parts not being tracked. For example not logging of adhoc parts being taken from the warehouse, not communication of parts being ordered often not linked to a job or multiple parts being ordered by different teams.
Complete lack of accuracy and visibility across teams for example – parts, customer service, engineers and project managers meaning that communication was quite archaic, meaning a phone may have been made and no note taken of what was discussed.
Our Solution
Firstly we had to manage the major issue of stock tracking. We started by zoning the warehouse and separating project orders to ensure when the project starts everything is ready in place. Working with a stock management company to develop a system where every zone is barcoded and quantities are tracked, when quantities got low, parts would be emailed and in the backend we can track order turnaround times and generally usage rates. This somewhat
Secondly, We gave all engineer and project management staff tablet with access to the CRM system allowing them to leave notes of all conversations on the go with customers, customer experience and other team members, as well as seeing notes from the office staff – all while out and about on jobs and on the road.
Thirdly, working with senior management we implemented a more advanced telecoms system to refine calling taking process to ensure all points of contact with customers are monitored and actioned.
After all the changes were implemented we were tasked with making everything easily reportable.