| China's automobile industry after the initial stage of development, is now entered a fast period, production and sales in recent years have maintained a high economic growth. China's vehicle production is the fourth world ranking currently, and is almost the same with Germany who ranked third. The result of rising vehicle production is the inevitable competition, in 2008 the profits of major domestic automakers decreased substantially, auto dealers were got into a vicious inevitable price competition, and now production's "blowout" and price's "avalanche "comment on the mass media are a common vocabulary. In this context, the major automobile manufacturers have increased the investment in informationization, such as Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems and so on.Automotive manufacturing and marketing business after many years of informatization construction, information systems have had mass production and operation data, but all of them have not been fully utilized yet, so the next focus of informationization construction in automotive industry is to carry out the construction of decision support functions, which required IT system provide more functions to support decision-making, and gradually phase from general business stage to Business Intelligence stage, providing technical support to the automotive manufacturing enterprises from the production and operation type to the operation decision-making type.At the same time, an enterprise to survive and develop,it must know the market, know customers and establish a "market-oriented, customer-centric" business philosophy, auto dealers as a services sector particular should be. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a client-driven, customer-centric decision-making technology which is in order to maintain the competitive power. To achieve these, it is necessary to collection, collation and analysis the variety of customer data produced in the process of customers interact with enterprise, then we can mine useful information and knowledge in these data. At present, bring data mining technology into the customer relationship management is the key to improve the efficiency of decision-making, it can extract useful information with a large amount of data, predict trends in customer behavior, better support business decisions.Data mining, is the process of extracting knowledge which people interested from the database. Such knowledge is implicit, in advance unknown, potentially useful information, knowledge are represented to concept, rules, laws, models and other forms. Data Mining technologies in CRM application provide a strategic and decision-making support in the development of enterprises, contribute to find business development trend of automobile enterprises, predict unknown results, and help auto dealers analysis the key factor in necessary tasks, in order to achieve the purposes of increasing revenues, lowering costs and being an advantageous competitive position.Customer segmentation refers to dividing enterprise's existing customers into different customer clusters in accordance with the definite standard. The right customer segmentation can effectively reduce costs, while a stronger, more profitable market penetration. Customer segmentation allows marketing and sales personnel, as well as decision-making platform to observe the client information from a relatively high level, allows companies to use the appropriate marketing strategy with different types of customers, and improves objectives and effectiveness of enterprise marketing services activities, thereby reducing marketing costs relatively, developing and maintaining the client resources maximally. Such as using clustering algorithm of data mining to cluster customer basic information, vehicle purchase information, customer service information in auto dealer company, from the substantial surface unrelated client information we can find useful information to auto dealers, such as what characteristics the high-value customers have, what are their shopping habits, what background information and so on. then the company could provide adequate technical and human resources support to these high value customers to meet their demands and expectations, thereby maximizing the profits of enterprises.Potential customer identification. For most enterprises, the development of new customers is a new way of profit, but also is the main way of business growth. In this process, we must first clear the characteristics of different customers. That is, where the target market? What are the potential customers? What are the potential customers are high-quality clients? What is the degree of difficulty to obtain customers? All of these are the work of customers identification. Second, for different clients adopt different marketing strategies. Finally, according to reflect situation of the customer on marketing efforts, adjust the target customers and the corresponding marketing strategies. Identification of potential customer is the basic step to the other two steps, and it is a very important guiding role. In automobile-oriented marketing decision support system, using the history sales data and related customer's basic data in the same car model, and taking advantage of association rules algorithm in data mining, to identify the common characteristics of these clients, and their similar patterns of behavior, and then identify potential customers who will have a positive response, all of these can help auto dealers implement targeted marketing campaigns, improve work efficiency.Customer loss and maintenance. With the increasingly fierce competition in automotive industry, to obtain a new customer's spending become more and more, and keep customers cost savings than to acquire new customers, so to maintain their original customers is becoming increasingly valuable. Improvement of the way to maintain customers is to take action before the really loss of customers, this is the value of the loss model. Automobile enterprises can use data mining techniques, such as decision tree classification algorithm, analysis the mass customer data in customer database, investigate the lost client groups, so as to analyze their characteristics, set up the lost customers model, and identify the patterns which cause the loss of customers. Then according to the results of the analysis to identify the possible lost customers, and combine with the loss client model, analysis the data mining result, we can predict which customers might leave, so that the car sales company can formulate a number of appropriate plans and programs to induce potential lost customers to stay, so as to providing personalized service, achieving "one-on-one" marketing, improving the relationship between company and customers, striving to maintain client and enhancing revenue.Customer satisfaction analysis. Customer satisfaction is the satisfaction when customer face to enterprise, its products and services, it is a subjective feel of the customer, it is also customer's emotional performance to the products and services, or to the enterprises. The fundamental aim of enhancing satisfaction is to reduce the wastage rate of customers, to enhance loyalty, and ultimately to increase the profits of enterprises. With sustained development of the automobile market in China, the level of customer satisfaction becomes an important aspect together with other indicators in measuring the competitiveness of enterprises. First of all, high customer satisfaction will increase the purchase frequency and volume of the company's products or services; Secondly, high satisfaction customers have more loyalty and higher customer retention rate; Finally, high satisfaction customers will be more willing to recommend the company's products or services to others and bring new customers. The use of fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method, analysis satisfaction survey score in terms of price, quality, brands, service of the same auto model, and then arrive at a comprehensive evaluation of the model, as well as the number of share ratio at different evaluation criteria in the four evaluation components. All of these can intuitive point out the factors which affect the satisfaction of this model, auto dealers can utilize the results to do targeted improvement, thereby enhancing the customers' satisfaction and loyalty of the products and services. |
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