Asian Journal Of Social Pharmacy

Abstract: Objective To build a model to improve the customer value of drugstores, so as to enhance their core competitiveness and share the value between drugstores and customers. Methods The quality control circle (QCC) was used to establish the model based on the theory of customer life cycle. According to recency-frequencymonetary (RFM) model, a general value index evaluation system was constructed for customers in different life cycles, and an example was studied. Results and Conclusion The flow model of drugstore customer management system and the method of evaluating the customer value were designed. Taking the activities of the QCC in a drugstore as an example, the deficiencies of pharmaceutical care such as medication consultation, shortage of drug supply and irrational drug display were improved. It also promoted the transformation of customers from a starting period into stable period and improved the comprehensive value of customers, indicating that QCC was effective. Drugstores should carry out the QCC activities with different themes according to the characteristics of customers in different life circles. Meanwhile, suggestions from customers on improving the environment and facilities, service quality and management mechanism of the drugstores should be effectively adopted to promote the transformation of customers from the starting period to the stable period for the realization of the highest value. This will bring economic value to drugstores and achieve the value sharing between drugstores and customers.

Key words: drugstore, quality control circle (QCC), customer life cycle, customer management, value sharing