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Cisco's Journey to Enhanced Customer Service with Celonis

Technology Category
  • Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
  • Networks & Connectivity - Ethernet
Applicable Industries
  • Transportation
Applicable Functions
  • Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases
  • Last Mile Delivery
  • Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
About The Customer
Cisco is a global leader in IT, networking, and cybersecurity solutions. The company provides mission-critical products and capabilities to its customers, making its customer support and service equally important. Cisco holds a significant market share in Ethernet switch revenue and the service provider and enterprise router market. The company offers premium service options to its customers, promising two and four-hour delivery of replacements for any critical component or equipment that fails. The company is committed to improving its processes and customer satisfaction, which led them to adopt Celonis to transform their premium service processes.
The Challenge
Cisco, a leading provider of networking solutions, faced a significant challenge in maintaining its premium service processes. The company's products and capabilities are mission-critical for its customers, making customer support and service equally crucial. Any downtime in a customer's network could cost them thousands of dollars, making it imperative for Cisco to prevent such occurrences. Cisco held a significant market share in Ethernet switch revenue and the service provider and enterprise router market, making its responsibility even more substantial. The company was constantly striving to improve its processes, particularly its premium service options that promised two and four-hour delivery of replacements. The challenge was to identify delivery performance failures in real-time and prevent similar failures quickly. The existing processes were manual and labor-intensive, with a 'Process Quarterback' personally tracking all two-hour service delivery requests end-to-end.
The Solution
Cisco turned to Celonis to transform its premium service processes. The company outlined five critical capabilities that the solution needed to deliver: end-to-end process visibility, improvements in Service Delivery Performance (SDP) measurement, opportunities to improve the process directly, complete scalability, and the means to improve on its already >90% SDP success rate. With Celonis, Cisco was able to automate 17 critical steps in its two-hour service delivery process, reaching 54% automation across it. The solution established a real-time connection between the company database and Celonis, with numerous APIs talking directly to smartsheet and Google Maps, automating the entire process. Bots were created for WebEx teams, automating conversations with field and logistics teams, capturing information immediately at every stage of the process, with no room for error. The process was scalable and could be applied to four-hour customers as well.
Operational Impact
  • The adoption of Celonis has brought about significant operational improvements for Cisco. The solution has removed a huge amount of manual work involved in fulfilling two-hour service requests, enhancing efficiency and accuracy. The real-time connection between the company database and Celonis, along with the use of APIs and bots, has automated the entire process, eliminating room for error. The solution is scalable, allowing Cisco to apply it to four-hour customers as well. The company is now looking to expand automation into other process areas and enhance visibility with live views of more process elements. The ultimate goal is to enable real-time service delivery root cause reporting, to better understand where and how problems occur in service delivery, and take immediate action to prevent them.
Quantitative Benefit
  • Cisco was able to automate 17 critical steps in its two-hour service delivery process, reaching 54% automation across it.
  • The company believes it can easily increase this figure to 70%, bringing even greater efficiency and accuracy to the process.
  • The process is scalable and can be applied to four-hour customers as well, expanding the benefits to a larger customer base.

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