Cloud-based software supports office supplies company's goal to improve customer experience throughout Europe

Cloud-based software supports office supplies company's goal to improve customer experience throughout Europe

Global business services and suppliers specialist Office Depot is working with RightNow to optimise its contact centre operation and improve the customer experience through all contact channels.

The partnership with RightNow is part of a project to create a Europe-wide virtual contact centre serving Benelux and DACH region, Spain, Italy, the UK and Ireland, and is designed to drive efficiencies and improve responsiveness to customers.

Managing multiple contact points

Following a successful pilot phase that managed email interactions in the Benelux DACH region, Office Depot will use RightNow CX to manage interactions across its customer phone calls, emails and faxes, giving contact centre agents a single view of each customer’s interaction history. Office Depot also plans to introduce RightNow Chat, which will offer customers real-time access to service agents, on every checkout page, to assist with any final questions prior to completing a purchase, so reducing abandonment rates.

The management of contacts through RightNow will be a major improvement over the existing process, as Alexander Jaross, senior European telesales and contact centre manager at Office Depot, detailed: “Previously, we used Outlook to handle emails and a number of disparate systems to handle other customer contacts. The use of multiple systems that were disconnected was frustrating for both customer and agent. Customers did not receive a consistent experience across each channel. RightNow will support our goal to centralise customer channels, giving agents a single view of all contacts and allowing them to blend channels for example dealing with email and the phone calls at the same time. We expect RightNow to drive efficiency and improve the service we deliver to our customers.”

Gaining economies of scale

The deployment will support the virtualisation of the regional and European contact centres, with the routing of interactions handled by Transera and management of customer interaction history provided by RightNow. “The project will allow us to route and record any customer request, phone, email, fax etc. based on the needs of the customers, which will improve service levels,” said Jaross.

Jaross explained that having engaged with Transera, it became clear that RightNow was the ideal choice for completing the customer experience strategy. “Transera is a top-notch virtual call centre supplier and we saw RightNow on several reference visits managing multimedia channels. The integration of these two solutions will optimise our internal process and improve the customer experience.”