You are the heart of our Global Customer Service organization in all our countries, supporting everyday both our sales force and working with our local ASPs to deliver the best quality and best cost of service. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for doing all those efforts daily for HTC.
As you know our company is facing challenging times and its our duty to find all kind of creative ways to improve our service performance and our costs. We had a QBR on September 14th with Chialin where we agreed on Q3 and Q4 KPIs globally, and I am sure you either already know your own Q4 goals or will get it very soon from your manager.
Its vital that we achieve 100% those goals, otherwise our competitiveness will definitely be affected negatively.
In order for all of us to work more smoothly between region and HQ to achieve those goals, I already set up bi-weekly meetings to review KPIs and actions required to meet those goals. In this spirit, there is a number of expectations from me, to be able to forecast our business (head), well execute on our ASP repair business (Core) and finally close all issues (Tail) :
Head(M+1)
Forecasting where we go is fundamental to deploy all necessary activities and required improvements . I need you to plan minimum 1 month ahead what will be needed to do, including wanting support to ASPs from Taiwan.
As far as operators/ distributors contracts are concerned, the rule is that a new contract or renewal must show a spend/ revenue lower or equal than 5%, and therefore must be tightly negotiated together with sales and presented to HQ for sign 1 month in advance of the expected date of application.
For ASPs new contracts or renewals, prices must be negotiated below the existing price negotiated in that region for each level of service.
Core(M)
The daily and weekly management of ASP KPIs, ASP efficiency, ASP inventory of spare parts and the spare parts from Taiwan are the fundamental keys to our success. Those 4 need improvements and I would like to have your help to work more closely as a team with HQ (Vicky for EMEA, Margarita for Americas, Michael Tsai for APAC and Bob Chen for spare parts management) to create new ways moving forward, within the limits of what we can do financially.
BTW we will announce at the end of this month the deployment of a new tool in HQ to enhance our Spare Parts management, which is so vital to enable our ASPs performance.
Tail(Q-1)
We can not continue to deal with issues coming from the past years and even beyond 1 quarter. I understand there are different regulations in different countries, but it should not be a good enough reason, knowing that we need to manage our business properly and therefore prevent “old” liabilities moving forward. Please make sure you close pending issues within 1 quarter maximum.
Thank you for following this new governance and to report bottom up to your management in such a way that you can clearly control and articulate all those dimensions.