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    THE UNIFIEDAjit Singh - 201096

    Amit Sinha - 201100

    Neha Vyas - 201115

    Ravi Parmar - 201067

    Sumeet Sharma - 201088

    Yashasvini Paunikar - 201116

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    GROUP NO - 3

    SELLING TOINTERNAL

    CUSTOMER

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    Session Outline

    Define Customer

    Types of Customers

    Internal Customer

    Importance of Internal Customer

    Citation

    Role of Selling to Internal Customer

    Impact of Internal customer on others

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    Who is a CUSTOMER?

    In simple terms, a customer is someone who pays forgoods or services.

    To enhance our understanding and comprehension

    ofcustomer, he/she is:

    1) a person who buys, especially on a regular basis;

    2) a person with whom one must deal.

    At the end of the day customers are the sole provider of

    every business, i.e. the revenue stream that pays foreverything else. You can have the best product, the bestaccountant, the best management, and so on, but you havenothing without a revenue stream.

    Nothing happens until something is sold.

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    Types of Customers

    As we now know who is a customer, lets look at thevarious type of customers. The basic distinction ofcustomer is divided in two categories, i.e. Externaland internal customers:

    1. External Customer Repeat Customer Bag-of wind Customer Solution Seeker or Clueless Customer Loyal, Discount, Impulse etc.

    2. Internal Customer

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    Who is an Internal Customer?

    An internal customerorinternal service providercan beanyone in the organization.

    An internal customer can be a co-worker, another department,

    or a distributor who depends upon us to provide products orservices which in turn are utilized to create a deliverable for theexternal customer.

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    They support you and make you look good to your externalcustomers.

    Like external customer, internal customers don't have muchchoice.

    For example, if the sales department doesn't like accounting'scredit policies, they can't fire that department and hire another.

    SalesDepartment

    AccountingDepartment

    OperationDepartment

    Interdependent

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    Importance of Internal Customer

    Greater external customer satisfaction.

    Outstanding internal customer service is simplygood business.

    Integrated working with different departments.

    Well defined and common goals.

    Helps in maximization of achievement withminimum inputs.

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    Engineers viewed information requests from Customer ServiceRepresentatives as low priority, uninteresting, and annoying.

    The cost to the company for one of the incorrect shipment wascalculated approximately $125,000 in wasted labor, materials, andother expenses. In addition, the cost of frustration and delayed

    deadlines to the external customer was damaging to thecompany's reputation.

    At the end of the above action, engineers understood what theCustomer Service Manager had been selling (through preaching)for years: responding to requests from Customer Service

    Representatives is a priority and is good business.

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    Identify ways to improve internal and external

    customer service

    Reduce interdepartmental miscommunication

    and conflict

    Support the priorities of internal customers

    Focus on problems rather than personalities

    Handle conflict professionally

    Role of Selling to Internal Customer

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    Identify internal problems which cost external

    customer loyalty

    Turn complaints into improvements

    Work together to meet organizational goals

    Improve workplace productivity and

    communication

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    Question

    ?

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    ThankWYouW