Streamline Your Retail Field Service Operations with Salesforce

One of the main pain points for retailers is the pressure on margins. Retailers are facing higher costs, while customers are constantly looking for reduced prices and good value for money.
The Salesforce platform is a powerful one, that can help retailers streamline their operations, reduce costs and achieve higher efficiencies.

Salesforce Service Cloud can help the automotive companies manage and track customer data, such as contact information, household information, historical vehicle information, as well as the complete customer journey, including all interactions it had with the company.

All this information is then available to the different teams and touchpoints the customer has with your company, enabling each one of the contacts the customer talk to, to pick up from where the previous contacts have left things, and provide the customer with superior service through both the sales cycle, followed by the service experience.

Another pain point for retailers is their need to offer seamless and engaging customer experience across all channels, including online and in-store.
With Salesforce Service Cloud, you can offer your customers seamless buying and service experiences, through all the different channels you have. The platform’s powerful analytics and reporting capabilities allow retailers to gain insights into customer behavior, identify trends, make better decisions, and offer tailored and personalized service to customers.

By having all customer information in one place, all employees in a retail organization can interact with customers having all relevant history at their fingertips, achieving improved customer satisfaction and retention.

The last pain point we’d like to touch on is employee retention. The retail industry has one of the highest employee turnover rates (see here). While these rates are mostly relevant to part-time hourly store employees and not to corporate positions, they describe a harsh reality.
In addition to ensuring you hire the right people for the job, and build employee engagement plans (e.g., offering employee discounts, team events and other measures for making your employees feel they have a good job), you can use Salesforce Service Cloud for automating service processes and getting repetitive administrative tasks handled automatically. This can create a win-win situation, where your employees are freed up from handling mundane work and being able to engage and connect with customers, thus offering better customer service.