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What SLA and how to improve SLA and increase the service to avoid the failure

For the past two months we have failed the SLA for our customers engagement. Both failures required a service credit. The client is clearly frustrated and internal teams have worked hard to address this without success. A failure in month three is considered breach. What is your strategy in month three to avoid another failure and who needs to be engaged in this strategy?

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Question added by Hassan El-sherif , TRADE MARKETING MANAGER , Tradelineu
Date Posted: 2015/06/12
Rasha Maarabouni
by Rasha Maarabouni , Executive Registrar , Lebanese International University

A service-level agreement (SLA) is simply a document describing the level of service expected by a customer from a supplier, laying out the metrics by which that service is measured, and the remedies or penalties, if any, should the agreed-upon levels not be achieved. Usually, SLAs are between companies and external suppliers, but they may also be between two departments within a company.

Most service providers make statistics available, often on a Web portal. There,

customers can check whether SLAs are being met, and whether they're entitled to

service credits or other penalties as laid out in the SLA.However, for mission-

critical services where the business itself is at risk if service levels are not met, it

may be worth considering using a third-party monitoring organization or an SLA

management tool to supplement the vendor's data. The extra expense of these

additional methods can be worthwhile for critical services.

 

It stands for Service Level Agreement. It outlines the commitments to be made by one party to another regarding operations - technology or some other function. It can be internal between different departments like operations department and retail business department, or it can be external in the form of one company providing services to another with a minimum level of service specified in the agreement. Its goal is mostly to keep operations of business uniform and not deviate from the agreed terms.

Shahjahan H
by Shahjahan H , Quality Manager cum Statistical Specialist , ACS

Brainstorm among the team members and do the RCA for the failure. Please involve Sr. Management and send out the SLA report on a weekly basis as a proactive measure.  Your QA member should be driving this whole exercise. 

Yosef Abdalsalam Mohammed
by Yosef Abdalsalam Mohammed , IT Manager , Al-Alamiya for Furniture

SLA (Service Level Agreement), it's the connection between the company and the customer, if the services are Excellent, the relationship between the two will be stronger.

mohan kumar
by mohan kumar , Travel Consultant , REGENCY TRAVEL SERVICES

sla for me service to give customer level it depends on work ability agreement is do service all time when in need

Confidence Agburum
by Confidence Agburum , cook , Albergo Belvedere

Service Level Agreement, is the contract between the provider add the end user. And for organization  to maintain the relationship, it must increase the service to the user's admiration. because ''good service encourage high sales'' And this could only be done by upgrading welfare faciities

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