An Optimization Design Method of Express Delivery Service Based on Quantitative Kano Model and Fuzzy QFD Model

Hongmei Shan, Xinmeng Fan, Siyu Long, Xuejing Yang, Shuhan Yang and Manuel De la Sen

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2022, vol. 2022, 1-18

Abstract: Service quality is the soul of express enterprises forever. It is of great practical significance for winning customer satisfaction, improving the market competition, and realizing sustainable performance. Unlike tangible products, express delivery service has the characteristics of intangibility, heterogeneity, indivisibility, and instability. While customer demands are complex and changeable and unpredictable, incorporating complex customer requirements into service design has been a growing interest of researchers and practitioners. This paper proposed an optimization design framework based on the quantitative Kano (QKNO) and the fuzzy quality function deployment (FQFD) to effectively achieve the best matching of enterprise service elements under the uncertainty and imprecise judgment information. An empirical study is conducted to verify the feasibility of the proposed approach. The results show that the framework could guide the express company to prioritize the enterprise service elements to maximize customer satisfaction and provide a reasonable budget allocation scheme to set the best resources match. It has theoretical and practical meaning for express enterprises to implement customization service strategy and improve service quality under the limited budget, which could be further extended to other service industries to make optimization decisions.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1155/2022/5945908

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