1. Customer Order Servicing and Engagement*

Customer Relationship Building: communicate the Factory’s operations, capabilities and commitment to existing and potential customers and foster a deep understanding of the customers’ own business environments and requirements, as a basis for building a sense of partnership and mutual commitment to each others’ success.
Direct Deal: clarify Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and performance standards with TGA for dealing directly with customers. Proactively seek TGA’s help to develop the CS team’s capability with the goal of obtaining full authority from TGA to “direct deal” with customers.
Customer Service: represent the customer by conducting random audits to monitor style and quality of fabric, sub-materials, samples and bulk garments and report problems identified to relevant departments.
Early Customer Problem Resolution: work with Operations and Wet Processing Departments to ensure that production problems, which may not be possible to solve internally, are quickly identified and reported to the CSP for early communication and resolution with the customer.
New Customer Requirements: assemble cross-functional teams to ensure requirements from new customers are properly understood and can be handled by the Factory.
Customer Engagement: work with TGA to monitor customer satisfaction and engagement, review with CS staff and implement continuous improvement programs.

2. Fabric and Sub-Materials Control

Materials Control: regularly review leftover materials (fabric and sub-materials) inventory, investigates reasons for leftover, and initiates appropriate action.
Fabric Problems: be personally involved to communicate with suppliers / Fabric Sourcing to resolve late-delivery or fabric quality problems as needed.

3. Customer-Driven Mindset

Understanding Customers: within the CS team, create a deep understanding of customers and their requirements through studying their end consumer requirements. Communicating with customers in-person, by phone and by email. Visiting their shops. Monitoring their websites, catalogues and business news. And through regular updates from TGA.
Total Service Concept: within the CS team, create a “total service” mindset, i.e. develop a deep knowledge of customers’ requirements - enabling the ability to make proactive product and services recommendations to them.
Being continuously in touch with customers during order, production and delivery. And proactively following up to check status and solve problems if necessary. To determine the customers’ satisfaction levels and continuously seek new ways to serve them better.
Customer Connection: create and implement programs to develop a committed customer-service mindset and foster employee pride in producing for the Factory’s customers.
Continuous Improvement: establish measures and systems to track and continuously improve customer understanding, employee pride in producing for the Factory’s customers and a committed customer service mindset throughout the Factory.

4. Internal Customer Engagement*

Cross-functional Work Processes: establish the cross-functional work process flows and interactions between
CS and other Factory departments necessary to support garments being produced and delivered on time, within customers’ quality and quantity standards and within the budgeted cost.
Cross-functional Problem-solving: monitor the effectiveness of cross-functional work and interaction between CS and other Factory departments. Be personally involved to resolve problems and make improvements as needed.
M3 Effectiveness: monitor CS team against established M3 effectiveness performance measures and targets, and takes appropriate action for improvement where needed.
Internal Relationships: personally build relationships with managers and staff from other departments to support effective teamwork.
Internal Customer Engagement: monitor internal customer satisfaction and engagement with CS interaction and service/support to them, review with the CS team and implement continuous improvement programs.

5. Managerial Leadership of Immediate Team

Business Context: communicate the ‘bigger picture’ context in which IEs need to plan and execute work (e.g. world, country, industry, Group, customer and inter-departmental considerations).
Collaborative Teamwork: establish process for meeting regularly and holding IEs accountable for effective and collaborative teamwork at their level.
IE Performance Management*: agree on SMART goals and assignments with each IE and provide continuous managerial guidance and feedback. Provide support for enhancing performance in the current role, conduct midyear progress reviews and determine year-end performance appraisal ratings.
IE Development*: assess the strengths and development needs of each IE and coach him/her in developing their
FSKs and MLCs in line with the Role Profile of his/her current job.
Recognition and Reward: provide differential recognition and recommendations for reward incentives for IEs (pay, promotion, development opportunities).
De-selection: recommend re-assignment or termination of IEs where appropriate, supported by a fair ‘due process’ and structured performance improvement program.
Appeals Process: provide an appeals process for employees one level down (EoDs) who have a grievance with his/her Immediate Manager (IM).

Note: manager accountable for: 1) coaching IEs to improve their performance and their abilities in their current job, 2) assessing future potential of employees one-level down(EoDs reporting to the manager’s IEs) and mentoring EoDs in terms of their career development for future roles, 3) identifying and developing successors for his/her IEs where relevant.

6. Future Talent Pool

Talent Pool Analysis: assess the future potential of Employees-one-Down (EoDs) in terms of future manpower requirements.
Mentoring and Career Development*: establish mentoring relationship and career development programs with individual EoDs based on future manpower requirements, assessment of individual potential and individual interests.
IE Successor Development*: identify and have ready for promotion minimum two potential successors for each IE where relevant and within agreed timeframe.

*Note: manager accountable for: 1) coaching IEs to improve their performance and their abilities in their current job, 2) assessing future potential of employees one-level down(EoDs reporting to the manager’s IEs) and mentoring EoDs in terms of their career development for future roles, 3) identifying and developing successors for his/her IEs where relevant.