Abstract:
As a basic of marketing rule, customers are all important. Knowing and understanding customer needs & behavior are at the center of every successful business, however those customers could not be equally served theirs needs, though Customer Segmentation which helps differentiating customer
value becomes a foremost strategic. Customer Segmentation facilitates business to generate revenue from all levels of customers, in which at the present time will apply customer segmentation related to cost of service & customer relationship management. Costs-To-Serve concept, applying Activity Based Management- ABM, has been adopted to help weighing importance of each activities in order to offer value added to customer, considering sequential and relation of activity which were designed to add value to customer. Moreover, it is very useful for Decision making, Planning, Cost control and most importantly Cost reduction by Management Executive, with the ultimate goal of maximizing customer satisfaction. This paper will illustrate Logistical activities of one of mobile phone operators in Thailand, who provide both Product and Services in the area of Telecommunication. However, in this case study, only logistical activities which were related to product would be concerned. It would also exclude any other services from other departments (in which logistical activities are not incurred). The objective is to decisively analyze the relation of Cost Driver and Activity Driver in order to assist management to consider cost incurred or output from each activity which will effect to the serve of the individual customer satisfaction.