A PROJECT REPORT ON CUSTOMER SATISFACTION OF TOYOTA
A PROJECT REPORT ONCUSTOMER SATISFACTION OFTOYOTAA Summer Training Project ReportSubmitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement of GGS IndraprasthaUniversity for the award of the Degree ofBachelor of Business Administration2013-2016Submitted By:ANMOL ARORAEnrolment No.: 07021701713Under the Supervision of:M.s SIMRAN KAURFaculty, DSPSRDelhi School of Professional Studies and Research(Affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India)1
CERTIFICATEThis is to certify that the Project titled “Customer Satisfaction Of Toyota” is anacademic work done by “Anmol Arora” submitted in partial fulfillment of therequirement for the award of the degree “Bachelor of Business Administration”from “Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University” under the supervision &direction at “Delhi School Of Professional Studies & Research” to the best of myknowledge and belief the data & information presented by him in this project has notbeen submitted elsewhere.MR. SUPREET SINGH2
DECLARATIONThis is to certify that the Project Report titled “Customer Satisfaction of Toyota”which is submitted by me in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award ofdegree “Bachelor of Business Administration” from “Guru Gobind SinghIndraprashta University” at “Delhi School of Professional Studies and Research,Delhi”. Comprises only my original work and has not been submitted in part or fullfor any other degree of diploma of any university.Name and Signature of CandidateANMOL ARORA3
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTI take this opportunity to express my profound gratitude and deep regards to my guideMR. SUPREET SINGH for his exemplary guidance, monitoring and constantencouragement throughout the course of this project. The blessing, help and guidancegiven by (him/ her) time to time shall carry me a long way in the journey of life onwhich I am about to embark.I also take this opportunity to express a deep sense of gratitude to AXYTOYOTA, for his/her cordial support, valuable information and guidance, whichhelped me in completing this task through various stages.I am obliged to staff members of GALAXY TOYOTA, for the valuable informationprovided by them in their respective fields. I am grateful for their cooperation duringthe period of my internship.Last but not least, my sincere thanks to my parents and friends for their wholeheartedsupport and encouragement.ANMOL ARORA4
1.1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThis assignment provides a detailed company description of the giant automakerToyota Motor Corporation (TMC), along with an in depth analysis and evaluation oftheir business activities.The introduction includes history as well as general knowledge about the businessprocess of the company. Main part includes the Core Competence Value ChainAnalysis and that include information about primary and support activities that helpthe company to maintain operations, meet customer expectations and gain competitiveadvantage. The last part of this report provides recommendations that may helpToyota to maintain the productivity and attract more customers.Toyota is one of the largest manufacturers of cars in the world, with scores offactories in dozens of countries. Its standing in the automotive world as the mostsuccessful and most profitable carmaker is unquestioned.In sharp contrast, Australia has one of the smallest car industries in the world andwhile it is one of the oldest, it has never spread its manufacturing wings across theoceans.And yet Australia has played an important role in the development of the world'slargest carmaker over a 50 year period, a length of association no other countryoutside Japan can match.It was Australia where today's world car industry leader first tasted success beyond itsJapanese domestic market. It was through Toyota Australia that the Japanese companylearned many lessons which have underpinned its global success, and it was ToyotaAustralia that achieved many breakthroughs within the group: first successful LandCruiser exports, first successful production outside Japan, first finance arm to funddealers' inventory and first exporter of the Camry apart from the parent companyitself. It is a proud record which has earned Australia a special place in Toyota'shistory.5
1.2 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY To study about the customer satisfaction on the services provided by the dealers. To study the opinion of the customers regarding the availability and cost of spareparts. To study the opinion of customers regarding its features like mileage, price etc. To study the effect of advertisement on the customers. To study and understand the key service parameters using Customer Satisfaction andreflect upon the low performing areas:6
1.3 REVIEW OF LITERATURECUSTOMER SATISFACTIONConcept IdentificationAs organizations become increasingly customer focused and driven by demand, theneed to gain customer loyalty and retain their loyalty is critical. Customersatisfaction is the most effective way to achieve customer loyalty. Customersatisfaction and customer loyalty share many similar traits. Customer value is thecustomer’s perception of the ratio of benefits to what he or she gives to obtain thosebenefits. Customers are satisfied, when value meets or exceeds expectations. If theirexpectations of value are not met, there is no chance of satisfying them. Figuring outwhat the customers want, however, is a difficult and complex process. To be able tocreate and deliver customer value is important to understand its components. On themost basic level, value from a customer’s perspective is the ratio of benefits to therisks being taken while buying the product.CUSTOMER SATISFACTIONAN INSIGHTAccording to Harold E Edmondson “ Customer Satisfaction” seems to appear in printmore frequently than any other catch phrase used to describe a new found magic forindustrial success. Before we proceed in to the study of the dynamics of CustomerSatisfaction it is important to know about, who a customer is and what satisfactionreally means.Who really is a Customer?The question of defining who your customers are seems fairly easy particularly ifyou have segmented your market properly and understand who you are trying tosatisfy. However subtlety that frequently goes undetected by many firms is that isthat customer set can be divided into two parts, the apparent customer and theuser. The apparent customer is the person or group of people who decide what7
product to buy and basically have control over the purse strings. The user is a personor group who physically uses the product or is the direct recipient of a service.What does satisfaction really mean?As in defining customer above, defining satisfaction also appears simple. Howeveras with customer there is a subtlety that needs addressing. Satisfaction by mostdefinitions simply means meeting the customer’s requirement.Customer satisfaction can be defined in many different ways. Finding the right wayfor a company depends on understanding your customer and on having a clear visionof the role that customer satisfaction is to play in the strategy. For example, a focuson customer satisfaction can work alongside existing segmentations to supportrevenue generation from high value customers or it can be a company-wide objectiverooted in the brand values. For the former, it may be sufficient to focus on improvingcustomer service, but for the latter a broader definition of customer satisfaction isnecessary, closer akin to corporate reputation.Building a Company around Customer Satisfaction With the increase in customer’s demands and competition it has become a lot moreimportant to base the entire company on customer service. When doing this one mustfirst realize that every member of an organization plays an active role in customerservice. This includes both external customers and internal customers within acompany.Customer focused organizations focus both on customer satisfaction andprofit. Achieving customer satisfaction generates the profit. In these organizationstop management has frequent contacts with external customers. The staff focuses allof its attention on satisfying the customer’s needs. However, the management’s job isto provide the staff with support necessary to achieve these goals. The otherdepartment and staff in the organization that do not have direct contact with theexternal customers deal exclusively with internal customer satisfaction.8
The Influence of the salesperson in Customer SatisfactionIn an article titled, “The influence of salesperson selling behavior on customersatisfaction with products,” Brent G.Goff and James S. Boles examine the effects ofnon-product related construct on customer satisfaction with major retail purchasessuch as automobiles. The article states that salesperson’s selling orientationcustomer orientation (SOCO) will affect not only consumer satisfaction with thesalesperson and dealer, but also indirectly, satisfaction with the product ormanufacturer.In the perspectives of both the retailer and the manufacturer, customer atestoseveraldesirableoutcomes. Customer satisfaction leads to future purchases, and repeated purchases ofthe same product from the same source. In other words, it helps a firm retain itspresent customers and build loyalty. By helping a buyer obtain product informationand providing guidelines about what should be expected during the buying processand use of a product, a salesperson may influence customer expectations concerningthe product. Thereby this may reduce the likelihood of dissatisfaction (Grewal andSharma, 1991). .Internal Marketing – how it affects Customer SatisfactionSuccessful companies make every effort to ensure satisfaction to their customer byfocusing all organizational efforts of the company on providing superior customerservice. By doing this these companies hope to retain their existing customers andattract new ones. Only angle of customer satisfaction commonly overlooked is theinternal aspect.The internal customer or employee plays a vital role in achieving customersatisfaction and loyalty. Some firm’s do not understand that the treatment of internalcustomers becomes the external customers’ perception of the company. A firm’semployees or other departments within the organization make up its internalcustomers. Their job performance affects the firm’s ability to deliver superiorproduct and customer service (Boone and Kurtz, 1999). When a firm’s employees arehappy at work, their overall attitude and performance towards the customer enhances9
tremendously. Internal marketing helps members or employees of an organizationunderstand and fulfill their roles in implementing its marketing strategy. Internalmarketing not only keeps employees happy, it also shows them how their actionsaffect the firm’s ability to achieve customer satisfaction.Customer Satisfaction as part of Service Profit ChainA Harvard Business Review article outlines the internal process required to drivegrowth and increase profitability. The article describes the ways in which servicequality contributes to success, outlining the steps in the “Service-profit chain”:Profitability / GrowthCustomer LoyaltyCustomer SatisfactionValueEmployee ProductivityEmployee LoyaltyInternal QualityLeadership1.4 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY10
The Research Methodology used was Convenience Sampling. As time and cost wasthe factor so, the researcher used Convenience Sampling because Conveniencesamples provide vital contributions to individual case records, qualitative summariesand etc.Data Sources:The data is collected directly from each customer who visited the showroom.Sampling Unit: CustomersSample Size: 100.Sampling Technique: Convenience Sampling.The biggest advantage to a convenience sample is that we get a pretty good unbiasedsample fairly easily. The biggest downside is that we may not get all elements of thepopulation that are of interest.1.5 DATA COLLECTION Primary: Data collection by personal interaction with the Toyota car user through Questionnaire.Type of interview: Face-to-faceInterview flow: Eligibility ascertainment of respondent by screening questionnaire Administration of the main questionnaireDuration of interview: 10 minsSecondary: Online collection of data (company website)1.6 SCOPE OF THE PROJECT11
The project was limited to Delhi NCR and Indian region. The respondents tobe surveyed had to be those who already have Toyota car.1.7 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY It is a comprehensive study on Indian and the World aspect. The sample size is restricted to 100 respondents. The study is restricted in scope of owing to the following limitations:2.1 ABOUT TOYOTA KIRLOSKAR MOTOR PVT LTD12
TYPE: JOINT VENTUREINDUSTRY: AUTOMOTIVEHEADQUARTER: BANGALORE, KARNATAKAKEY PEOPLE: MR.RYOICHI SASAKI, CHAIRMANPRODUCTS: AUTOMOBILESPARENT: TOYOTA MOTORS CORPORATIONToyota Motor Corporation entered India in 1997 in a joint venture with the KirloskarGroup.Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt. Ltd is a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation ofJapan (with Kirloskar Group as a minority owner), for the manufacture and sales ofToyota cars in India. It is currently the 4th largest car maker in India after MarutiSuzuki, Hyundai, and Mahindra.The company Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt. Ltd (TKMPL) according to its missionstatement aims to play a major role in the development of the automotive industry andthe creation of employment opportunities, not only through its dealer network, butalso through ancillary industries with a business philosophy of "Putting CustomerFirst".On June 7, 2012, Vice Chairman of the company revealed that the company isplanning to enter the healthcare sector and its first hospital is will open in Karnatakain May 2013.TKMPL's current plant at Bidadi, Karnataka is spread across 432 acres and has acapacity of 80,000 vehicles per annum.TKMPL's second manufacturing plant on the outskirts of Bangalore; Karnataka has acapacity of 70,000 vehicles per annum. Both plants have a combined capacity of150,000 vehicles per annum.On 16 March 2011, it announced that it was increasing production to 210,000 vehiclesper annum due to increase in demand for its models especially the Etios and Fortuner.13
With effect from June 1, 2012, Toyota Kirloskar Motor will be increasing the prices ofEtios diesel and Innova by 1 per cent and Fortuner and EtiosLiva diesel by 0.5 percent. The price hike is on account of the weakening of Rupee. Toyota announced thatEtios sedan and the Liva hatchback has posted sales of over one lakh units, henceToyota is all set for giving its production a big boost.ToyotaKirloskar Motor (TKM)plans to hike the production capacity of its Etios series models by 75% by early 2013.Toyota Kirloskar Motors would launch its motor racing series in 3 cities in India nextyear.14
2.2 RATIONALE OF THE STUDYAutomobile units play a vital role in the industrial development of a nation. Byconsidering the facts, I had chosen the topic as pertinent to the current situation in carmarket. Hence an in-depth study of satisfaction of customers of Toyota cars has beenundertaken. The main objective of the study is to identify the factors influencing thecustomers to purchase Toyota cars and analyze the factors influencing theirsatisfaction. The study was confined to Lucknow city and size of the sample is 100customers of Hyundai car by adopting convenience sampling technique for datacollection.Increasing competition, ever growing market, easy availability of the finances andincreasing population of young executives, with huge disposable incomes, over thepast few years has substantially increased the sales in the automobile industry.Also, the competition among the dealers of the products has increased with eachtrying to maximize their customer base. This makes it imperative for the dealers toprovide the best of the services and exceed the customer expectations to achievecustomer delight and loyalty.The study tries to understand the key service parameters and reflect upon thedysfunctional areas, thus providing the dealer with an insight into the level ofcustomer satisfaction and changing trends of the customer expectations.15
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Automobile Industry HistoryIn the year 1769, a French engineer by the name of Nicolas J. Cugnot invented thefirst automobile to run on roads. This automobile, in fact, was a self-powered, threewheeled, military tractor that made the use of a steam engine. The range of theautomobile, however, was very brief and at the most, it could only run at a stretch forfifteen minutes. In addition, these automobiles were not fit for the roads as the steamengines made them very heavy and large, and required ample starting time. OliverEvans was the first to design a steam engine driven automobile in the U.S.Scotsman, Robert Anderson, was the first to invent an electric carriage between 1832and 1839. However, Thomas Davenport of the U.S.A. and Scotsman Robert Davidsonwere amongst the first to invent more applicable automobiles, making use of nonrechargeable electric batteries in 1842. Development of roads made travellingcomfortable and as a result, the short ranged, electric battery driven automobiles wereno more the best option for travelling over longer distances.The Automobile Industry finally came of age with Henry Ford in 1914 for the bulkproduction of cars. The several methods adopted by Ford, made the new invention(that is, the car) popular amongst the rich as well as the masses.The current trends of the Global Automobile Industry reveal that in the developedcountries the Automobile Industries are stagnating as a result of the drooping carmarkets, whereas the Automobile Industry in the developing nations, such as, Indiaand Brazil, have been consistently registering higher growth rates every passing hose who are interested in gathering more information about the AutomobileIndustry may browse through the following links World Automobile Industry Automobile Industry Trends India Automobile Market17
India Automobile IndustryMeasures to be adopted by global leaders of the WorldAutomobile Industry.Several significant economic measures are being considered by the major players ofthe World Automobile Industry in order to make a smooth entry into the markets ofthe developing countries, and to make a name for themselves. The effective measuresinclude: Reducing the selling prices of the automobiles manufactured in their factories Improving the levels of after-sales services to keep customers satisfied Opening manufacturing factories in the developing nations, to reduce effectivecosts of production as well as saving shipping charges, and enhancing promptdelivery of automobile units.Automobile Industry TrendsIn keeping with the Automobile Industry Trends, the leading automobilemanufacturers are turning to the Asian markets that appear set to grow immenselyover the next decade. The automobile markets in the U.S., Europe and the Japan havealmost matured as a result of saturation and appear set to decline through the nextdecade. In contrast, the automobile markets spread over the entire Asian continent(with the exception of Japan), are constantly increasing in size and will be thedestination for most of the globally leading automobile manufacturers.The Automobile Industry Trends reveal that the emerging markets of the developingnations of Asia especially China, and India are backed by their huge populationgrowth rate, to add to the growing national economy of these two nations.The rapid growths of the national economy of the BRIC countries (including Brazil,Russia, India, and China) have enabled a growing section of the population of these18
countries to purchase automobiles. Global surveys conducted recently reveal thatwithin the next ten years, these emerging automobile markets will account for nearlya whooping 90 percent of th
A PROJECT REPORT ON CUSTOMER SATISFACTION OF TOYOTA A Summer Training Project Report Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement of GGS Indraprastha University for the award of the Degree of Bachelor of Business Administration 2013-2016 Submitted By: ANMOL ARORA Enrolment No.: 07021701713 Under the Supervision of: M.s SIMRAN KAUR .
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