POST-SHIPMENT SERVICES: TURNING CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS INTO ASSETS

Customer complaints can be used by a manufacturer to its advantage. Since manufacturing is not perfect, some of the output will be defective. There is a tendency for designers and engineers to make products more complicated than necessary. There will always be a need for some warranty or guarantee c...

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Published in:The Journal of business & industrial marketing 1987-03, Vol.2 (3), p.17-22
Main Author: Cooke, Ernest F.
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