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The objectives of this research are to: 1) study the current working process of Sale Support Staffs worked in Sales Support Department in order to find out the causes, and problems of delay in submitting quotations, and errors occurred, and 2) propose proposals for improving work efficiency of Sales Support Staffs by adopting Kaizen concept. From the objectives of the above study, the Researcher has conducted the interview with relevant staffs and investigate each step of work process, including analyzing the reasons and problems occurred in the work process by writing a flow of work process (Work process diagram) in order to identify significant problems in the process to be used as a guideline for work improvement. The Researcher also analyzed the problems by repeated questioning in exploring the relationship between causes and effects (5 Whys analysis). The analysis results found 2 (two) problems arising from work processes. First problem is about work processes redundancy, a wider scope of work and unnecessary. The company has more document forms which over the necessity and that made the Sale Support Staffs to spend too much time in preparing relevant documents. In addition, the work order of the company is focused that each Sales Representative Staffs is required to complete work on documents individually which cause the work to be bounced back to be rectified until the required information to be specified in the relevant work documents are correct. Second problem is that Sale Support Staffs are lacking knowledge and experience in direct field resulting that there are problems in asking for the quotation from foreign agents because Sale Support Staffs provided insufficient and incomplete details of information required by foreign agent, i.e. not specify time and unclear requirement. Moreover, the Sale Support Staffs spend most of their time on paperwork and forms which are unnecessary, and it results that the Sale Support Staffs have not much time in reviewing the accuracy of the quotations. From the abovementioned problem, the Researcher therefore proposed a solution to the problem by making standard document forms whereby having the employees to get involved to insert information relevant to their work and using ECRS principles to improve work processes by reducing, eliminating, simplifying and re-arranging processes that do not create value, including providing training to existing Sale Support Staffs and new Sale Support Staffs who do not have direct experience in this field to enable them to understand the customer’s request for a quotation and be able to forward the request for the quotation to the relevant stakeholders for further processing so that the quotations could be proposed to the customers accurately and quickly. The result of this research found that the company was able to reduce the problem of opportunity loss to close the sale that arises from delay in submitting the quotations, counted to 21% in December and 13% in January 2020 respectively. In the first 2 months after the improvement, the problem on delay in issuing the quotations still remains, but the number of such problem is less than the past the when compared to the period before the improvement. Therefore, the problem analysis and work improvement guidelines provided, which were already executed, can be demonstrated that it could solve the problems according to the objectives targeted. |
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