2. Started by Frederick Smith in 1973.
By Late 70s-Fed Ex built a reputation of delivering goods
overnight, from spare parts to eleventh hour birthday gifts.
First from service sector in U.S. to win the Malcolm Baldrige
National Quality Awards-The Oscar for Quality.
FedEx-A Brief Introduction
3. Early CRM Initiatives:
COSMOS(Customer , Operations and Service Master Online System)
Implemented Hub and Spoke System.
G.O.C-Global Operations Control Centre.
Fed Ex-Power Ship.
Fed Ex-Super Tracker
CRM at Fed Ex
4. Electronic Customer Relationship Management (ECRM)-A technique
companies use to increase and enhance their marketing skills and
capabilities.
Has increased the importance of interacting with customers.
Helps organizations to recognize and react to the changing demand of
customers.
Measure to retain customers.
E-CRM
5. E CRM-Transcends sales, marketing and services within an organization.
Fed Ex used CRM applications like Clarify from Nortel and one more
application from Siebel.
These tools enabled FedEx to coordinate communication across the many
differing customer-facing systems spanning the organization.
E CRM at Fed Ex
6. To have a detailed information on their customers when the customer
calls them.
Route the customer calls to the appropriate customer service
representative.
Determine the needs of the customer.
Provides an opportunity to cross sell based on the customers
previous transaction history.
It also helped them in conducting promotions and qualify potential
sales leads.
E CRM-Benefits to Fed Ex
8. FedEx initiative-6x6 Transformation to cater to changing customer
needs.
Initial Focus-Cost effectiveness, speed, innovation, service levels and
business alignment.
End Goal-To create a consistent environment linking FedEx Express,
FedEx Ground and FedEx Kinkos divisions.
6x6 Transformation-Need For Kaizen
9. 6x6
Transformation
Satisfying the
FedEx
customer
Working as
trusted
partners with
FedEx
colleagues and
clients
Evaluating
greater
opportunities
for IT
employees
Ability to
delivery quickly
by boosting its
bandwidth in
the
organization
Establishing a
consistent
environment
with EWIS
Simplifying
inforamtion
access through
FUSION
10. Training and Educating IT workforce helped them to work across
teams, initiate projects much quicker, etc.
Improved internal business relationships.
Satisfying work environment for IT personnel.
comprehensive work force management program.
Common IT platforms across various departments.
Simplified access to information.
Further Initiatives
11. RFID
The Police ( Package optical label image capture equipment) system
Use of Intelligent pen Technology.
Use of wireless technology for sorters.
Purple lights A laser scanner based system with voice output to sort
documents.
FedEx Power pad.
Additional Technologies
12. 150 IT employees moved to high priority projects after 6x6 initiative.
Fed Ex Fusion-To provide internal users and customers with a single
source of information.
Integrated Internal Business Communication from all Fed Ex operating
companies.
IT Virtual Community Portal-Provided key information and metrics to
everyone in I.T
Customer Fusion, Shipment Fusion & Revenue Fusion.
Role of IT
13. Visibility likely to increase-with constant up gradation in CRM
initiatives.
More advanced algorithms and analytics likely to surface in future.
As for Fed Ex-it continues to grow with a revenue of 44.3 billion
USD in 2013,owing it majorly to the use of IT and CRM initiatives.
Looking Ahead