Employee Interaction Center (EIC): Knowledge Management

Employee Interaction Center (EIC): Knowledge Management

The Employee Interaction Center (EIC) brings customer relationship management to Human Resources and streamlines service delivery through a centralized, single-point of contact. Employees can contact the EIC through multiple communication channels (e.g. phone, email, chat) for answers to all of their HR questions and service needs. This scenario shows the interaction between an employee and an EIC Agent (Tier 1) in a business scenario. An Employee contacts the EIC by phone with a benefits question. The Agent responds to the employee inquiry and uses enterprise intelligence for knowledge management to search the solution database for answers. This knowledge search feature expedites problem resolution by enabling efficient contact handling and helps ensure consistent, accurate messaging to employees.

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Value Potentials Business Benefits
Improve service quality
Maximize resource potential
SAPA (74% of inquiries closed on first contact)* Increase contact handling efficiency
Employee
EIC Agent (Tier 1)
Initiate EIC contact
Request information
Receive information
Complete self-service transaction
Identify caller
Confirm employee
Search solution database for answers
Identify solution from results list
Communicate solution
Create interaction log
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* Internal ROI study
The value potentials shown in this table have been reported by selected SAP customers or independent third parties as referenced herein. However, there is no guarantee that such value potentials can be realized in any particular customer-specific business processes, and SAP does not make any representations and disclaims any liability as to the appropriateness of the referenced value potentials for any specific customer situation.
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Business Benefits Value Potentials
Decrease operational costs SAPA (283% ROI)*
Streamline business processes
Improve access to information (e.g. 3rd party integration)
 

Employee Interaction Center (EIC): Knowledge Management

To provide employees with top-notch customer service, your Human Resource department needs to respond quickly and accurately to employee inquiries via phone, email or other communication channels. Human Resource departments need better communication tools for efficient contact handling. Inconsistent, out of date information sources often result in cost-consuming multiple contacts. Human Resource departments are facing a number of business challenges today which include: Increasing value added service, while reducing costs; streamlining business processes and enhancing service quality; appropriately allocating HR staff to maximize value and optimize performance potential (minimize training); meeting the changing, increasing demands and expectations of a diverse employee population (e.g. job applicants, new hires, line managers, retirees). The Employee Interaction Center (EIC) brings customer relationship management to Human Resources. It delivers a cost effective, service oriented solution to HCM, to better assist all HR customers. The EIC allows customers to achieve the following business goals: decrease costs of HR service delivery, improve service quality, gain higher efficiency and cost transparency, standardize HR processes and services. The Knowledge search function helps expedite employee inquiries using enterprise intelligence for knowledge management, which enables HR staff to access consistent, accurate information from a solution database and respond quickly, increasing overall productivity and customer satisfaction.