‘Sorry, our entire budget went to excellent customer service.’ That’s what the new billboard on TVH’s headquarters in Waregem—looking out on motorway E17—says. The global supplier of parts and accessories for material handling and industrial equipment is known for its witty billboards, that are always designed in-house. But never before has one been this popular on social media. What’s more, it perfectly summarises TVH’s ambition for the coming years: optimising customer experience (CX)
Photo, left to right: CX team members Lotte Vandewalle (Global Pricing Analyst), Rens Vanhoutte (Digital Marketing Advisor), Mariska Naessens (Datacenter Product Advisor), Silke Verfaillie (Global CX Manager), Davey Vangeenberghe (Graphic Designer) and Marie Omey (Regional Marketer).
It was with this ambition in mind that TVH established a new division last year: Customer Experience. “This dedicated CX team brings together experts from different fields in order to put CX at the heart of our business,” said Silke Verfaillie, Global CX Manager at TVH. “We’ll be concentrating on e-commerce and digitisation, yet every single employee contributes to an ideal customer experience.”
Customer centricity
TVH has been expanding its customer experience strategy. In 2018, for example, the company launched its worldwide Voice of the Customer (VoC) programme, with which it collects customer feedback and brings its services in line with growing and changing expectations. TVH also carries out monthly customer satisfaction surveys and uses actual customer reviews as a basis for improvement before launching updates and novelties.
“We’ve made the shift from inside-out to outside-in thinking,” Silke Verfaillie elaborated. “We strongly believe that customer value creation, customer orientation and customer experience are the keys to success. On that account, we’re setting expectations right, both ours and—in the interest of transparency—those of our customers.”
E-commerce, digitisation and innovation
TVH is growing its digital team within Customer Experience, which then will further set up a new e-commerce platform and optimise TVH’s online presence. Meanwhile, there will be new features added to the existing customer platform based on customer feedback.
“We want to make the customer journey as smooth as possible,” explained Silke Verfaillie. “Yes, we want to offer a best-in-class webshop through an innovative e-commerce platform, but we’re innovating on many other levels as well. Even just having a Customer Experience division makes us a trendsetter in Belgium.”
CX as the engine of TVH
Clearly, TVH has ambitious plans for this year and beyond. “In order to consolidate CX as the engine of our company, we’re investing in extra colleagues with specific expertise in e-commerce, Voice of the Customer and data, for example,” said Silke Verfaillie. “We’re looking for customer-oriented people that identify with our corporate culture.” See all job openings on www.lift-your-career.com.
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About TVH Parts Holding
TVH Parts Holding is an international organisation with customers in more than 180 countries and 78 branches on all continents. Its main office is located in Waregem, Belgium. Furthermore, there are two regional main offices: one in Kansas (US) serving the American market and one in Hermalle (Belgium) for Bepco Group. TVH Parts is the one-stop shop for material handling, industrial and agricultural equipment parts and accessories. The unequalled know-how of TVH's parts division is reflected by a database of more than 42 000 000 article numbers, of which well over 775 000 references are in stock. TVH Parts’ electronics department is Europe’s largest and best-equipped service centre for the repair of electronic parts for lift trucks, mobile elevating work platforms and industrial vehicles. TVH Parts is part of TVH Group. TVH Group was established in 1969, employs more than 6700 people and consists of 2 business units: TVH Parts Holding and mateco Holding.