UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY International School of Business ------------------------------ LE THI THANH TAM CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM) ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE AT FRIESLANDCAMPINA VIETNAM MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Ho Chi Minh City – 2017 UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY 123doc International School of Business ------------------------------ Le Thi Thanh Tam CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM) ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE AT FRIESLANDCAMPINA VIETNAM MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SUPERVISOR: Le Thi Thanh Xuan Ho Chi Minh City – 2017 123doc SUPERVISOR’S REPORT ON THE FINAL THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER of BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Final thesis title: Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Organization Structure at FrieslandCampina Vietnam Student name: Le Thi Thanh Tam Supervisor name: Ms. Le Thi Thanh Xuan 1. General comments: Remarks on the student’s attitude: ……………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………… …… Remarks on the assignment’s academic quality: ……………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………… …… 2. Overall assessment: Meet requirement for submitting Not meet requirement for submitting 3.
Other remarks: - Did the student follow the report schedule? a. Other:…………………………………………………………………………… … - The Turnitin plagiarism percentage: Supervisor’s signature 123doc EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This thesis of “Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Organization Structure at FrieslandCampina Vietnam” has been composed and completed in four main parts: problem context, solution recommendation, conclusion and supporting documents. Chapter I included company background starting from industry overview, company history and business size as well as the vision, mission and organization structure of FrieslandCampina Vietnam. In addition, in this chapter, the thesis has shown the issues, problems which are concerns from stakeholders of the company based on a wide variety of in-depth interview and secondary data regarding business results and performance tracking of CRM team.
A problem mess had been created to show all symptoms, organization outcomes and problems as a general picture. Specifically, a central problem of ineffective CRM organization structure was selected to be solved as a core problem of company with the justification of its existence and importance. After validating and selecting the central problem of organization, three causes of central problem listed as departmental structure design which is not in line with business strategy/model; excess headcount number and overlapped roles and responsibilities among Telesales team were investigated to verify and determine so as to give out alternative solutions which were presented in chapter II. In this thesis, the long-term solution is proposed to define appropriate number of headcounts at the change moment of business in the future.
In the meanwhile, there are two proposals for short-term to tackle problem with CRM personnel cost optimization and redesign departmental structure to be in line with new IFT business acquisition model. The last part was named as the supporting chapter to support all information and information sources for the above four chapters. It composed sections of in-depth interview transcript to justify central problem and selected solution. 123doc In-depth interviews were widely used at different levels from many related departments of FrieslandCampina Vietnam to collect data and to diagnose various aspects of the problem with the methodology of design-oriented and theory-informed from a wide variety of fields such as human resources, industry, management etc.
After collecting data and information to analyze, it was believed that pushing sales performance had been greatly affected by many factors such as nature of work, compensation and benefits, motivation, capabilities building etc. However, this research illustrated that factor of ineffective CRM organization structure had been mostly influenced which led to the very alarming consequences such as headcounts in excess, unclear roles and responsibilities, not stretching enough KPI setting, under company business expectation. 123doc ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my deepest appreciation to my supervisor, Dr. Le Thi Thanh Xuan, who always stands by me and motivates me to complete this study.
Without her support, this master thesis cannot be fulfilled. Needless to say, her guidance helped me in all the time of researching and writing this thesis. In addition to that, I want to show my sincere gratitude to Prof. Tran Ha Minh Quan, Prof.
Nguyen Dinh Tho and Dr. Nguyen Thi Mai Trang, who are the ones to set strong foundation for me in organization problem solving and data analysis so that I can conduct this study. Beside my advisors, I would like to thank my business partners for discussing, sharing information and coordinating with me make this project happen. 123doc TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.2 Market share and key players in the dairy market .3 FrieslandCampina Vietnam – Company history and organization structure.
Background of problem. Identification of central potential problem. Selected solution and action plan. Change management and counter measures.69 123doc LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1.
Vietnam Dairy Market share in 2015. Powder milk key players. Drinking milk key players. Organization structure of FrieslandCampina Vietnam.
Consumer Marketing IFT structure of FrieslandCampina Vietnam. Current business model of IFT team. Current Acquisition business model of CRM team. The comparison between personnel investment for one CRM officer versus the average revenue of each acquired new customer.
The comparison between current number of data officers and ideal number of data officers after deploying data validation automation model. Expected validated data of CRM team in 2017. Expected validated data of one Data officer in 2017. Ambitious automatic acquisition business model of CRM team.
The comparison between current number of telesales staff and KPI setting in getting new users. Expected telesales staff for driving CRM business goals in 2017. Initial cause-effect map. Final cause-effect map.
Estimated number of data officers from October to December 2017. Proposal new working process for Telesales staff. Proposal new CRM organization structure. Proposal new working process for Acquisition officer .Proposal new working process for Retention officer.
Short-term plan to optimize FTE number October - December 2017. Short-term plan to optimize Retention FTE number from October to December 2017. CRM organization structure from October to December 2017 – proposal A………………. CRM organization structure from October to December 2017 – proposal B…………….
Comparison between proposal A and proposal B. Roles and responsibilities of stakeholders in project CRM department structure improvement. The detailed plan .43 123doc 123doc 123doc 123doc CHAPTER I: PROBLEM CONTEXT 1.1 Industry overview The Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry covers the products that are essential items we use day in and day out. “Fast moving” implies that the items are quick to leave the shelves and also tend to be high in volume but low in cost items.
According to Kantar Worldpanel (2017) 1 – one of the most prestigious agencies in the field of Market Research, both urban and rural FMCG market post slightly stronger growth rate in Vietnam in 2016. However, 2016 was also a tough year for Rural which faced economic difficulties. In the meanwhile, Dairy, Beverages and Home Care are most suffering in Rural. It is predicted that both urban 4 cities and rural markets will reach a growth rate of 5-6% in 2017.2 Market share and key players in the dairy market a.
The overview of dairy market 2 According to Deloitte report on Global Dairy Sector – Trends and Opportunities , it is well documented that the global dairy sector is going through a period of turbulence. The consumption demand in China, Russia’s trade embargo and the removal of EU milk quotas, all of these is the consequence of a period of excess supply and low prices. However, in the long run, this sector still keeps positive signal. This is due to the fact that rising populations and diet trend are increasing demand of dairy.
It is expected that global dairy demand increases by 2.5 percent per annum to 2020, especially impacted by urbanization and higher living standard in emerging markets. In the movement of global dairy market, according to Dairy in Vietnam posted on Euromonitor International 3, the rising trend towards health and wellness continued to impact positively the production and supply of drinking milk. Moreover, many launches of new products, which contain vitamins and nutrition 1 123doc such as: calcium, DHA, immunity., has been released in the local market. Another point could be mentioned here is that due to increase in local consumption of milk, there are more dairy companies operated in Vietnam, beside of many long- year dairy companies such as: Vinamilk, FrieslandCampina (known as Dutch Lady Vietnam) or Abbott… Hence, it can be said that the competitiveness of Vietnam dairy market is much higher and higher with the appearance of new key players and the significant innovation of current companies.
Market share and key players of dairy market in Vietnam According to the annual report of dairy product of Vietnam, it can be said that Vinamilk is the biggest dairy company in Vietnam. Vinamilk is currently the largest fresh milk collector, purchasing more than 60% of fresh milk from farmers across the country, while the second largest fresh milk collector is FrieslandCampina Vietnam. In addition, Vinamilk has purchased nearly 82,000 tons of fresh milk from local farms in 2015, accounting for about 20% of total domestic fresh milk production. These two companies dominate the local market with 46% and 20% of market share respectively.
With the advantages of worldwide large-scale farming of cow herbs, big production capacity and modern technologies, foreign players firmly control the local powdered milk market with 53.1% of market share in 2015. Conversely, local players dominate the drinking milk market which is led by Vinamilk with 45.5% of market share in 2015. In 2015, Vinamilk continued to lead the yogurt market with 73% value share, as well as to dominate the condensed milk market (approximately 80% of the total sale value). Today, Vinamilk and FrieslandCampina Vietnam also faces up to other potential competitors such as Nestle, Johnson as well as new entrant milk competitors like TH Milk, Loveinfarm milk, Mocchaumilk… 2 123doc 34% Vinamilk 46% FrieslandCampina Vietnam Others 20% Figure #1: Vietnam Dairy market share in 2015 (FrieslandCampina internal report) 100% 90% 80% 70% Others 60% FCV 50% Mead Johnson 40% Vinamilk 30% Abott 20% 10% 0% 2013 2014 2015 Figure #2: Powder milk key players (FrieslandCampina internal report) 3 123doc 120 100 80 Other 60 Nestle Vietnam FCV 40 Vinamilk 20 0 2013 2014 2015 Figure #3: Drinking milk key players (FrieslandCampina Internal Report) 1.3 FrieslandCampina Vietnam – Company history and organization structure FrieslandCampina Vietnam (FCV) is a joint-stock company which established in 1995 between Binh Duong Im-Export Company and Royal FrieslandCampina as the leading company of dairy products in Netherlands with 135 global experiences.
These days, almost all products are produced in Vietnam and Dutch Lady is one of the six legendary brands of FCV. This company is famous for leading brand in Vietnam dairy market, such as: Friso, Yomost, Fristi, Active 20+…. There are two factories, one in Binh Duong and one in Hanam as well as three local warehouses in which there are 1,487 employees working. Production of more than 1.5 billion cartons per year and this volume is growing with an average rate of 15% per year.
The yearly average turnover in Vietnam is US$350 million. FCV’s products can be subdivided into three categories: powder milk, sweetened condensed milk and ready-to-drink dairy (so-called liquid milk). 4 123doc About company structure, it can be summarized via below organization chart. Like many other multinational companies, FCV divided into specialized divisions to optimize production capabilities in all aspects.
Figure #4: Organization structure of FrieslandCampina Vietnam Along with the strategic organization structure, FCV also established the mechanism of performance evaluation for employee based on individual key performance indicators (KPI), annual development priorities and behavior improvement in line with corporate guidelines (AAA – Alignment, Accountability, Action). With this management method, it is believed that each employee of FCV is fully responsible for the job in charge; especially it is consistent with business 5 123doc objectives. Moreover, building a transparent and fair working environment, performance evaluation is also highlighted as the result of this mechanism.2 Background of problem 1.