7 Tools to Reduce Complaints and Increase Customer Satisfaction.

In this article, you will learn the most common tools to reduce complaints and increase customer satisfaction.

Complaints Definition

Complaint means any written, electronic, or oral communication that alleges deficiencies related to the identity, quality, durability, reliability, safety, effectiveness, or performance of a device after it is released for distribution. (Refer to Sec. 820.3 Definitions – CFR – Code of Federal Regulations Title 21).  Typically the complaints are sent by your customers to your company.

But sometimes, the complaints are generated by your company to one of its suppliers.  In this case, it is called a Supplier Compliant or SCARS Supplier Corrective Action Request.

Complaints per units sold

Customer complaints (SCARS Supplier Corrective Action Requests) per units sold are measuring metrics of the magnitude of customer satisfaction.  The complaints per unit sold is a business metric standardized to compare two populations in the same base.

For example, you can calculate the complaints per unit sold of product A adding all complaints for one month, and divide them by the total number of product A sold during that month.

Then, you have the capacity to compare that results with other business units.

For example, calculate the complaints per units sold of the product B by adding all complaints received for product B during the same period of time [one month]. sigma definitions

How to Reduce Complaints and Increase Customer Satisfaction

The customer complaint by units sold is a business metric that can cause big problems if your company does not know the tools to reduce and control it.

Therefore, it is important to prevent complaints from occurring in the first place by selecting and implementing the most appropriate tools.

Some companies typically use one or more of the following tools combined to find the root cause and minimize the incidences:

1. DMAIC (Define – Measure – Analyse – Improve – Control),
2. SIPOC;
3. Critical to Quality (CTQ);
4. Cause and Effects;
5. Classification Analysis,
6. Regression Tree;
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8. Customer Feedback

You must pay attention to customer feedback, whether from surveys, feedback forms, etc. It will allow you to take action on time. Using Six Sigma along with rich data from customers, you can make your processes more efficient and improve the quality of your products. If there’s nothing to complain about, your customers won’t complain!

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REFERENCES: Tools to Reduce Complaints and Increase Customer Satisfaction.

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