UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY International School of Business ------------------------- Dang Thi Ngoc Xuan SOLUTIONS TO ENHANCE SERVICE QUALITY AT AKZONOBEL POWDER COATINGS VIET NAM COMPANY ID: 22120083 MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SUPERVISOR: PGS. Tran Ha Minh Quan Ho Chi Minh City – Year 2015 123doc Abstract The “servitization of business” (Vander Merwe and Rada, 1988) is movement even in manufacturing industry. So AkzoNobel Powder Coatings who is a leading manufacturer in Viet Nam powder coatings industry focus on customers, products and service commitments continuously. Delivering an efficient and effective customer service is their primary objective.
They deliver activities to promote business through the provision of technical support, problem solving and other services for customers. They serve a wide and diverse group of manufactures including architecture, automotive and other products. Moreover, through previous reports on yearly customer satisfaction survey, AkzoNobel Powder Coatings recognize that their customers‟ satisfaction and loyalty are decreasing currently due to low service quality measured through SERVQUAL (Parasuraman et al. It is essential to design the improving customer service plan for AkzoNobel to maintain and develop the business performance.
This lead to the purpose of this thesis: The first objective is to investigate the real cause of service quality problem influencing on business performance, focusing on quality dimensions. Particularly, this study aims to investigate the service quality gap that is defined as the real cause of difference between customer expectations and perceptions of service through the Gap model (Bergman & Klefjo, 1994). 1 123doc Importantly, the final objective is to build the improving action plan, especially for complaint handling to enhance the customer service process at AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Viet Nam. To achieve the research objectives, the empirical study and literature study undertaken.
Quality dimensions, service quality gaps and quality measures in manufacturing company were the three areas that are reviewed in the literature review study. AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Viet Nam has a wide service portfolio with different types of services, which can be classified as product oriented and relationship based. Through survey, interviews and secondary data analysis, quality measures and gaps relevant for service quality problems were identified, and the purpose could be fulfilled. Keywords: powder coatings, service quality, customer satisfaction, complaint, solutions 2 123doc Nomenclature ANPCVN AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Viet Nam CMO Color Matching Optimization CCS Customer Complaint Service CSat Yearly Customer Satisfaction Survey CTS Customer Technical Service ICT Information and Communications Technology KAM Key Account Manager KPI Key Performance Indicator MS Managed Services HR Human Resource OTIF On-Time-In-Full QA Quality Assurance TC Technical Consulting SDM Service Delivery Manager 3 123doc List of Figure and Table Table 1 Service portfolio at ANPCVN‟s service portfolio Table 2 Cost and Benefit Comparison between alternative solutions Table 3 Strategy Evaluation Table 4 Customer Service Action Plan Template Table 5 Comparison of sales performance in 2014 and 2015 Table 6 The comparison of sales volume between actual sales and budget sales in 2015 Table 7 The comparison of complaint volume in 2014 and 2015 Table 8 The overall average of product quality in 2015 Table 9 The overall average of service quality in 2015 Table 10 The Customer‟s evaluation of complaint service quality in 2015 Table 11 List of Interviewees Table 12 List of quality measures Overview of different measures mentioned by different researchers Table 13 Definitions of the five quality dimensions proposed by Parasuraman et al.
(1988) Figure 1 The cause-and-effect of ANPCVN‟s service quality problem Figure 2 The technical meeting procedure Figure 3 The suggested customer complaint handling process Figure 4 Connection between service quality, customer satisfaction, loyalty, and repurchase intention inspired by Oh (1999) Figure 5 Model of service quality gap by Parasuraman et al. (1985) 4 123doc Contents Abstract .2 AkzoNobel Powder Coating Viet Nam .1 The overall service delivery strategy .2 Developing the Account Managers‟ competency program .3 Cost and Benefit Comparison .2 Customer Satisfaction Survey .3 In-depth Interviews. 46 Appendix 1 Items for Measurement of Internal, External Service Quality and Consequence of Organizational Service Quality in manufacturing Supply Chain. Measurement on five- point Likert Scale.
50 Appendix 2 Interpon Customer Satisfaction Survey 2015. 51 Appendix 3 Definition of quality dimensions. 55 Appendix 4 Customer Complaint Form.