Reduction in service fulfillment times. With more than 1, stores across North America, effective store operations plays a huge part in creating this great experience, which is crucial for sales revenues and customer satisfaction. ServiceNow lies at the heart of this transformation, powering customer facing processes ranging from growing sales revenues through to insurance claims, vendor interactions, and direct shipping.
At the time, the company had a legacy ticketing tool for its internal IT call center. These were actually business process issues, although IT was involved. Tim talks about one example—raising deferment caps. When a customer is struggling to make a lease payment due to a delayed paycheck or other issue, stores can work with the customer to defer the payment. However, each store has a cap on how much it can defer. If it exceeds this cap, it needs to make a special request for the cap to be raised.
These requests come into IT, which then gets approvals from the appropriate business owners and updates the store server with the raised deferment cap. It took three days and a stack of work. So, we added the request into our ServiceNow service catalog, automated the approval process, and even automatically updated the store server. Now, the whole process takes minutes instead of days. At this point, we realized that ServiceNow is a powerful system for change—not just within IT, but across the business.
And it really got the attention of store operations. With ServiceNow, we can get our stores back to helping customers instead of wrestling with internal processes. Aaron's also offers home delivery, repair and set-up services. The company's name was a marketing tactic designed to secure a top spot in the Yellow Pages' alphabetical ordering system.
Over the next 15 years, Aaron's Rentals grew tremendously and began to focus specifically on targeting the office market. The new brand focus was successful, and by the end of , Aaron's Rentals was operating 92 stores across 14 states. As the company's popularity grew, manufacturers could not keep up with inventory production. Loudermilk began in-house manufacturing, which in turn decreased the amount of money he was spending on stockpile.
In recent years, however, the franchise and leasing segment of the company has experienced contraction in both revenue and store count, while other segments of the parent company Aaron, Inc. Ongoing Royalties and Advertising Fund Contributions.
The Aaron's rental and leasing business is one segment in a much larger parent company, Aaron's, Inc. Overall, Aaron's, Inc. The combined segment numbers don't add up precisely to the corporate totals because of corporate costs and eliminations. In addition, the Progressive Leasing segment of Aaron's, Inc. Aaron's franchise segment has recently undergone a period of contraction. Increasingly, Aaron's has been buying back franchised stores and converting them into corporate-owned and operated locations.
Find a Franchise. Shoppers can either use the store's computers or their own smartphones to calculate what they can buy and how they can pay for it. While the new stores still represent a small share of our overall store count, we believe that over time the execution of our GenNext store design strategy will provide a meaningful lift to our overall performance.
Tuesday marked the first earnings announcement by Aaron's since the Atlanta- based retailer was spun off last fall and formed its own stand-alone company traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Contact Dave Flessner at dflessner timesfreepress. Sofa Guide Mattress Guide. English Spanish. Home Office Furniture. Game Room Furniture. Top Brands in Electronics.
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