Supply Chain Fundamentals: Customer Service Operations

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Overview

Supply Chain Fundamentals: Customer Service Operations

Course Description

Be more effective in your entry-level or supervisory roles in customer service and order management! This course prepares learners for all aspects of customer service operations. Gain a solid understanding of the role of customer service within an organization’s overall supply chain. Discover the key elements of customer service, including the order management process, customer relationship management, management of challenging customers, effective customer communications, returns and reverse logistics, and performance metrics.

Course Content

THE ORDER PROCESS

RETURNS AND REVERSE LOGISTICS

CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

CHALLENGING CUSTOMERS

COMMUNICATION IN CUSTOMER SERVICE

LEGAL AND REGULATORY CONCERNS

Requirements & Materials
Important Information

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After you complete your registration follow the "How to Access Your Course Content" instructions which display on the session details (summary) page for this course.

This is a self-paced online course.  You may register anytime while registration is open and will have access to the course through the published "Access Ends" date.

Materials

Required

  • Computer with speakers to access online content

Provided

  • Access to online course content and optional reading materials until the course end date

Session Details

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for customer service and order management, and distribution center administrators, clerks, analysts, supervisors, managers, and learners seeking to enter these roles. Supply chain professionals from other domains will also benefit through gaining insights into customer service operations.

Supply chain and logistics professionals learning in classroom

What You Will Learn

  • Order management cycle and process
  • Effective customer service
  • Customer returns process and metrics
  • Customer relationship management
  • Service performance measurements
  • Key steps in the customer lifecycle
Supply chain professionals collaborating in warehouse

How You Will Benefit

  • Gain a solid understanding of customer service, customer relationship management, and returns management principles, flows, technologies, goals, and metrics.
  • Know how to identify, appreciate, and relate to challenging customers in typical business settings through great customer service.
  • Identify and describe various communication methods and their characteristics.
  • Recognize the key barriers to effective communication and how to overcome them.
  • Learn regulatory concerns in customer service operations.
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I am really impressed with the scope of subjects covered and the practical case studies in diverse sectors from health, education, and other public sector projects.

- Kenny Onasanya
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