UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY International School of Business ------------------------------ Luu Tuyet Anh LOW PERFORMANCE OF SALES CONSULTANTS ON CARD PRODUCTS AT JACCS INTERNATIONAL VIETNAM FINANCE COMPANY MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SUPERVISOR: DR. TRAN PHUONG THAO Ho Chi Minh City – Year 2019 123doc TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .1 LIST OF TABLES AND CHARTS .2 CHAPTER 1: PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION .1 Low Sales Consultants performance .2 Poor outbound consultant service .3 Low company reputation.3 Main problem validation .4 Problem definition and consequences. 19 CHAPTER 2: CAUSE VALIDATION .3 Main cause validation .31 CHAPTER 3: SOLUTION DESIGN .2 Building a reward plan .3 Action plan in organization .45 CHAPTER 4: SUPPORTING INFORMATION .2 Research method summary .61 123doc EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In the finance-banking industry, despite the banks, nowadays, the finance companies also issue credit cards or the card products which are relevant to a loan. The card market between the finance companies is developing rapidly to adapt the need of the customers, especially those who do not have assets to mortgage.
Jaccs International Vietnam Company is a Japanese finance company which have been joining in Vietnam for 9 years. Card products are one of the products of the company which have been released for 4 years up to now. However, the number of cards activated of the company is not high. The purpose of this thesis is to find out the problem of Card Department and solve them.
The thesis use the techniques such as collecting data, conducting in-depth interviews with all the staffs as well as the managers of Card Department and also base on the theories to come to some possible cases which can happen. From that, the thesis continue to analyze the context of the company to find out the cases that are really existing in the company. Finally, with the ideas of the managers, the thesis come to the conclusion. By those methods, the thesis reveals that Low performance of Sales Consultants is the main problem for the high rate of non-activated cards, the cause leading to this problem is due to the lack of performance measurement on card products of Sales Consultants and the best solution is to combine target setting and building a commission plan for them.
This solution can improve the performance of the Sales Consultants and the number of cards activated of the company. 1 123doc LIST OF TABLES AND CHARTS Table 1: Product information.5 Table 2: Summary of non-activated cards from August to December of 2018 .8 Table 3: The percentage of the card contracts which were not signed comparing with the total loan contracts released .27 Table 4: The number of motorcycle loan contracts from October-2018 to January-2019 .28 Table 5: Card informations of JIVF and competitors.28 Table 6: Total balance of Card Department from September 2018 to January 2019.32 Table 7: Statistics about activation of cards from September-2018 to January-2019 .33 Table 8: Number of cards issued from September 2018 to January 2019 .36 Table 9: The estimated percentage of card contracts to loan contracts released from January-2020 to March 2020 .36 Table 10: The estimated percentage of card contracts which are activated to card contracts released from January-2020 to March-2020 .37 Table 11: Cost and benefit for the solution of setting a target .38 Table 12: Estimated statistic for the commission plan from January to March-2020.41 Table 13: Estimated statistics for the commission plan from January-2020 to March- 2020. 41 Table 14: Estimated statistic for the bonus plan from January-2020 to March-2020 .42 Table 15: Rate of missed calls from September 2018 to January 2019 .43 Table 20: Solution comparison .44 Table 16: Action plan stage 1 .46 Table 17: Action plan stage 2 .46 Table 18: Action plan stage 3 .47 Table 19: Action plan stage 4 .48 2 123doc Chart 1: Summary of non-activated cards from July to December of 2018 .9 Chart 2: Awareness of customers about card products .11 Chart 3: The reasons of customers for not activating cards .12 Map 1: Initial causes and effects map .14 Map 2: Updated causes and effects map .16 Map 3: Fish born map .30 Map 4: Final cause and effect map .34 3 123doc CHAPTER 1: PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION 1.1 Company overview JACCS Co., Ltd, started out as a provider of monthly installment credit services for use at department stores in Hakodate, Hokkaido, in 1954. Since then, under a founding philosophy that values trust and reliability, JACCS, has continued to expand its business nationwide in Japan and has expanded its business into growth markets in Asia.
With a total volume of new contracts exceeding ¥3,061 billion, JACCS is one of the leading names in Japan’s consumer credit sector. JACCS’ main businesses comprise the credit business, the credit card business, and the financing business, which includes credit guarantees and other operations. In overseas business, the JACCS Group continues to expand, focusing on the ASEAN region. JACCS commenced overseas business with the provision of motorcycle loan services in Vietnam in 2010, and followed this with the launch of motorcycle loan services in Indonesia in 2012.
In April 2015, JACCS International Vietnam Finance Co., became the first Japanese-affiliated credit card issuer in Vietnam. - Products Jaccs Company has 6 products: motorcycle loan, car loan, personal loan, credit/cash card, electric loan and furniture loan. In this proposal, the writer mentions only about Credit/cash card. 4 123doc No Item Cash card Credit card 1 Deployment From 01-2015 From 01-2015 Function -Withdraw at Automated -Payment at card acceptance Teller Machine systems of units of VISA VISA -Withdraw at Automated 2 -Withdraw fee: free Teller Machine systems of VISA - Withdraw fee: 3% of the total amount, at least 50,000 VND Customer Call the customers who are Call the customers who are 3 resource having loans at the company to having loans at the company to consult the card product.
consult the card product. 4 Duration 3 years 3 years 5 Credit limit 5-10 million VND 5-10 million VND Interest Depend on monthly income of Depend on monthly income of each customer.61%/month Cash transaction: 2.03%- 6 3%/month Retail transaction: 2.03%/month if not payable on arrival. 7 Annual fee No annual fee 100,000 VND/ year Table 1: Product information 5 123doc - Organization chart of Card Department Executive Manager Deputy Manager, Deputy Manager, Inbound Outbound Team Team leader, leader,Inbound Outbound Card Outbound Customer's Inbound Staff Outbound Information Admin Staff (Activate request (consult card) Input Staff (Manage all card) process Staff documents/PIN/ Card) Outbound Inbound Staff Outbound (Activate (consult card) card) Outbound Inbound Staff (consult card) Outbound Inbound Staff (consult card) 6 123doc - Card registration procedure Receive Sending Card Customer Card issue card and registeration card to at counters Investigation aproval activate customer card Current customers of Jaccs: Customers have signed motorcycle loan contract & completed payment. Customers have signed personal loan contract & completed payment.
Customers have a good payment history New customers of Jaccs: Customers who apply for motorcycle loan contract. Customers who apply for personal loan contract. When signing the loan contracts, customers are consulted additionally the card product by the sale consultants at the counters and sign a card contract if they have demand. SCs send the contracts to Investigation department.
Card department receives the contracts that are approved by Investigation department then performs outbound calls to customers to consult again the card product and ask whether they still want to receive or not. If the customers accept the products, card department sends Pin and card to customers within 7-10 working days. The customers who receive the products and want to activate them have to call hotline of card department to request for activation or they can let their information 7 123doc for card department to call back later. The inbound staffs then must consult again for the customers before activating cards.2 Symptom The writer found out 1 symptom in Card Department.
It is that the rate of non- activated cards is very high. The outbound (consult card) staffs get the card loan contracts then perform outbound calls to customers to consult card information and ask whether they agree to receive card or not. If the customer agrees, the company will send 2 letters which contains card and Personal Code (PIN code) respectively on 2 different days to the customer with no fee. After receiving both of them, the customers have to use the telephone number which they let on the contracts to call to hotline of card department to request for card activation because they cannot active card by themselves at the Automated Teller Machine like other bank cards.
The customers must provide the information exactly compared to the information on the contracts such as ID number, date of issue, full name, and date of birth, addresses, card number, and expired date of card. After that, the inbound staffs consult again all the information of the card for the customers to understand before changing the status from non-activate to activate card. The activation process takes about 5 to 10 minutes. When the customers do not have enough money to call, the outbound (activate card) staffs will call the customers to activate for them.
Month Total activated cards Rate of non-activated card December- 1105 44.10% 2018 Table 2: Summary of non-activated cards from August to December of 2018 8 123doc 1200 46.50% August September October November December Total activated cards Percentage of non-activated cards Chart 1: Summary of non-activated cards from July to December of 2018 Although the number of activated cards is increasing, the rate of non-activated cards which is compared with the total issued cards of the company is still high, nearly 50%.2 Problem analysis In order to find the reasons for the high rate of non-activated cards, the writer conducted in-depth interviews with the staffs in Card Department. Then, together with the data collected, the writer has 2 possible problems: low performance of Sales Consultants and poor outbound consultant service.1 Low Sales Consultants performance The writer interviewed 4 outbound (consult card) staffs in Card Department about the reason why customers did not activate their cards. 4 of them all answered that when they performed outbound calls to customers to consult card product, very few people knew about card. Some knew there was a card program for them but did not know clearly what it was.
Some completely did not ever hear about card although they had signed the card contracts. Furthermore, they said that the customers did not choose the right card type for them on the contracts. Following the process of the company, Sales Consultants at the counters are the ones who will consult customers about the products and guide them to complete the contracts. Therefore, the outbound staffs added that most of the Sales Consultants did not consult the customers at all or just consulted for form’s sake and then chose arbitrarily the card type for customers.
The outbound staffs after receiving the contracts have to perform outbound calls to consult again the card type that the customers chose. Here is the percentage of customers toward awareness of card program in every 100 customers. 10 123doc 30% 55% 15% Do not know card program Have awareness of card but a little Choose the wrong card type Chart 2: Awareness of customers about card products For the customers who live in big cities like Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City or the customers who often go shopping or go to the supermarkets or the ones who often use payment form via card at stores, they do not have the demand for a loan via card like cash card. For the customers who live in the rural areas, there are no supermarkets or card acceptance units, they also do not have demand on shopping, and they need cash to spend their lives.
Anh Nguyen-outbound team leader stated that: “Choosing the right card type is very important.