Customer Service Management
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Top Customer Experience Insights from CSCMP Edge 2018
At CSCMP 2018, over 3,000 supply chain professionals joined together in Nashville, under the atrium of the Gaylord Opryland Resort. With customers front and center of supply chain, here are our top customer experience insights from the show.
Read moreBodybuilding.com improves on-time delivery and reduces WISMO
Bodybuilding.com deployed Convey’s delivery experience management platform to provide greater visibility into order delivery status, and enable proactive resolution of potential shipping issues. Through Convey, Bodybuilding.com is now able to more efficiently resolve in-transit issues with service providers, reducing costs and improving SLAs.
Read moreConvey Receives SDCE 100 Award for Top Supply Chain Projects for 2018
Convey has been named to the SDCE 100, the Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine annual list of great supply chain projects, for its work with online retailer UncommonGoods.
This is the second consecutive year Convey has been named to the SDCE 100, which spotlights successful and innovative projects that deliver bottom-line value to enterprises across the range of supply chain functions. Last year the company was recognized for its work with online home improvement retailer Build.com.
Read moreBenchmark Survey Report: Are You Winning The Last Mile Of Retail?
This inaugural Retail TouchPoints Last Mile Benchmark Report provides a snapshot of the challenges retailers face in managing the last mile, and the innovative solutions they are using to keep pace with rising consumer expectations.
Read moreAsk Me Anything with Jenny Bebout: A Founder’s Story
Jenny Bebout, one of Convey's three Founders and Product/UX Lead, just helped to launch Convey's upgraded exception management tool and carrier collaboration features. These new features provide retailers and shippers alike with a comprehensive analysis of transit issues, and they allow shippers to prioritize their own exception resolution workflows. We sat down with Jenny to talk more about her experience as a Co-founder, her thoughts on carrier-shipper relationships, and her contributions to Convey's upgraded exception management tool.
Read moreAsk Me Anything with Dane Francis: Exception Management 101
We sat down with Dane Francis to learn more about his role as a Client Partner and Convey's new Exception Management tool, and he delivered exception management advice for supply chain leaders.
Read moreUncommonGoods Takes Proactive Steps To Meet Delivery Date Promises
Late deliveries are the classic lose-lose for both retailers and their customers. They are particularly painful during the holiday season, when the calendar creates a drop-dead deadline and shipping volumes balloon. UncommonGoods took steps to deal with this challenge well ahead of the holiday season. For Father’s Day 2017, the retailer used a delivery intelligence platform from Convey to proactively identify shipments that were going to miss their promised delivery dates — days ahead of the actual deadline. UncommonGoods used this information to expedite new shipments guaranteed to arrive at their destinations on time. Meanwhile, existing in-transit shipments were intercepted by the carrier and returned to the warehouse. Read more...
Read moreProactive Support Delivers Results for UncommonGoods
In episode 90 of Total Retail Talks, MC Halfpenny, director of operations at UncommonGoods, an online retailer of unique gifts and creative home decor, talks about how proactive customer support is helping the company to improve the order delivery process. Halfpenny shares details about the support process at Uncommon Goods, the business benefits it has helped deliver, and offers advice for other retailers looking to improve the product delivery experience for its customers.
Read moreRedefining Final Mile Delivery in the Age of the Customer
In a study co-authored by EFT and Convey, we asked 200 retail supply chain executives what they had to say about the evolving role of the customer experience in their operations. We found that retailers understand the importance of customer experience, but that current technologies are not addressing CX needs. The desire to improve the CX is often at odds with traditional operational metrics.
We address our findings in our research study, and we’re excited to announce its release. Click through to read!
Read moreRetailers call for better customer service in last-mile delivery
A survey of 200 retail supply chain professionals was commissioned by logistics software firm Convey and conducted by supply chain and logistics business intelligence event management company eyefortransport Ltd. (EFT). 56% said that CX measurement is key to their operational decisions.
Retailers are calling for better customer experience of last-mile parcel delivery, but their current technologies are not addressing that need.
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