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Complaints management: quality of response to customer complaints in an automotive company

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  • António Rocha
  • Ana Pedregal
  • Catarina Maia
  • Gabriel Soares
  • Hugo Cardoso
  • Marta Fonseca

Abstract

Complaints management is an essential process of customer service by providing valuable information to review organisational performance and to support decision-making, holding accountable different stakeholders, including suppliers of product parts and services. The automotive industry requires high-quality standards and internal compliance procedures to assure the reliability of manufacturing processes and quality of product parts, even though with these stringent measures complaints are issued, and they must be promptly handled and solved. This article analysis the processing time of customer complaints, to figure out, the causes leading an automotive industrial unit to not comply with internal and customer response time targets, proposing improvements to minimise the cost of contractual fines. To accomplish these outcomes a top-bottom approach was used, detailing critical factors to describe and analyse the complaints handling process and to identify the underlying problems to advance improvement opportunities that can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the complaints management system.

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  • António Rocha & Ana Pedregal & Catarina Maia & Gabriel Soares & Hugo Cardoso & Marta Fonseca, 2025. "Complaints management: quality of response to customer complaints in an automotive company," International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 44(1), pages 18-39.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpqma:v:44:y:2025:i:1:p:18-39
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