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Customer Service Productivity Is a Win-Win for Companies & Customers

It makes sense. Customer service reps work closely with customers, so it gives reps the perfect opportunity to proactively help them by recommending upgrades or other products, right?

Dear PT, 

At our company, we automate many business processes using Salesforce^® Flow. We are having difficulties integrating these automated processes into our project management function. How can we create a comprehensive PM function tied to our Salesforce usage?

Starr Terpeck in Tool, TX

How Salesforce Apps Transform Billing Processes, Delivering Real-time Data and Automating Workflows

Inefficient processes not only waste time, they cost organizations millions of dollars a year. “Some organizations are losing up to $1.3 million a year due to inefficient tasks weighing employees down, according to a report by Formstack and Mantis Research which surveyed 2,000 workers,” said CIO Dive in their article, "Businesses can lose up to $1.3M a year on inefficient processes."

Dear PT, 

Our company’s IT department has a steady backlog of new projects and new processes to undertake. And they are good at what they do. However, each individual action plan is built from the ground up. Plus, they operate in a bit of a silo—other functions need to be involved to ensure success. We’d like to add project management discipline to these projects and process implementations. Where do we begin?

M. Plamentor in Silo, OK

Dear PT, 

In this competitive job market, with turnover increasing, productivity is a challenge. We need to get new employees at our company onboarded and up-to-speed as soon as possible.  We have a number of separate processes in place within Salesforce^® for both compliance and training. How might we take a more comprehensive approach to get better outcomes?

M. Ployer in Train, Germany

Dear PT, 

At our company, when users create a Salesforce^® Contact, a search is done to find if the related Account is already in our records. If they don’t find an Account, then one is created. This manual process sometimes results in duplicate Accounts being created, with identical information or differing information. Data quality suffers, relationship management is affected, and then time and resources are wasted fixing the problems. There has to be a better way.

Bette R. Dada-Highjeene from Dublin, OH

Dear PT, 

At our company, we are looking to improve and streamline our customer onboarding process. We sell a number of products and services, and each has a repetitive process to properly deliver and onboard. Usually, we clone a number of Salesforce^® Projects, and then make the changes necessary for that customer and purchase. As we’ve seen, this process is sometimes prone to errors and omissions. How can we make improvements?

Gus Towmer in Welcome, ON, Canada

Dear PT, 

Like many Salesforce^® users, we have to manually assign Leads to their related Account. Of course, this opens up the potential for errors. It would be nice if we could automate this process and then notify the correct salesperson about the new Lead. Any thoughts on how we could easily do this?

Dom Main from Lincoln, NE