The Application of Customer Relationship Management and Implementation to Supply Chain
Customer relationship management (CRM) aims to unite information technology with marketing in purpose of increasing customer satisfaction. This system can respond efficiently to changes in customer desires, thereby strengthening revenue through reducing marketing costs. The development and implementation of CRM require a series of processes that allow customer analysis to be carried out so that companies can identify each customer individually. The company knows which customers have the potential to deliver huge profits and those ones which are a loss. The concept of CRM is in addition to the development of information technology which is increasingly adding to the variety of business applications. It is an interesting business process to discuss. Customer relationship management covers all aspects related to the company's interactions with its customers. There are four CRM strategy matrix approaches, namely customer-based marketing, individualised CRM, product-based selling, and managed service support.