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Pre-
and post-sales: customer service to the forefront
Supplying reliable and innovative
solutions to mechanize agriculture requires research, design and testing in
the factory as well as in the field. For Landini this is but the beginning of
a long journey towards the main aim of the company: to provide customer
satisfaction.
The
relationship that Landini has with its customers does not end with the
supply of technology: the main aims of the company are to supply each farmer
or subcontractor with the most suitable product to satisfy their
demands, provide them with the training needed to use the machinery and to
maintain the machinery at the maximum operating level.
For these reasons the Fabbrico based
company has given special attention to pre- and post-sales services to
provide the final customer with maximum support using the expertise of Landini
technicians and dealers.
All Landini dealers, both in
Italy and abroad, undertake a specialist training program. This six month
course includes theoretical and practical training dealing with the most
important technical aspects of the products.
Specific training courses are also
organized to coincide with the launch of new products and technologies. This
ensures that the knowledge of sales network personnel is always up to date with
the full range of Landini products.
Troubleshooting is the main
mission of Landini dealers. This is achieved thanks to an efficient
service structure and constant feedback from the network of
inspectors.
The final objective is to fully
understand the demands of customers and then find the most suitable and
customized solutions.
The new Landini spare parts
centre
Production
quality is accompanied by perfect organization. This is fully demonstrated by
the very modern spare parts centre containing more than 40,000 articles,
all marked with a bar code.
The Landini spare parts centre,
covering an area of 10,000 square meters, dispatches 350,000 direct orders
annually, both in Italy and abroad. Goods are moved within the centre according
to a product logic flow reducing distribution times to a minimum.
Goods for dispatch are labeled and
packed in their own special packaging and then strategically placed in the
middle of the warehouse. Small goods and goods with high turnover are managed
differently. A newly designed rotary magazine is used for maximum efficiency.
A computerized system controls movement of the shelves on which the products are
stored. The goods are automatically transferred to the operator station where
they are removed for dispatch, thus reducing the distribution times
considerably.
Low turnover goods are stored
together in a specific area. This contains a compactable magazine where a large
quantity of material can be stored in a very small area. As with the magazine
for high turnover goods, shelf movement is fully automated.
The parts centre also has dedicated
areas for testing materials when they arrive, pre-packaging, and the storage of
packaging materials. These areas are organized rationally and with maximum
attention to safety.
As part of the effort to assure maximum
efficiency by reducing the time required to search for goods, all the trolleys
used to pick up goods inside the magazine are wire guided. They can also
be raised to the required height as they move. This means that the operator is
not distracted by trolley movement and can therefore concentrate on the material
that has to be picked up.
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