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Customer Service With aroma®

Give your customer service team the perfect control center

Questions from the Omni-Channel
The Service Center Modul
Simply Explained: Customer Service With aroma®
Deep Dive
Further functions and modules of aroma®

Questions From the Omni-Channel

Serving customers comprehensively also means taking their questions and wishes seriously and implementing them in the best possible way. For this, aroma® offers a powerful customer care module.

Typical customer questions and customer wishes that your service team can easily answer and fulfill via the aroma® service center module:

  • When will my order reach me?
  • Has my return arrived?
  • Why did I receive a reminder?
  • I would like to cancel a part of my order.
  • I have received the wrong article. Can you send me the ordered article?
  • I would like to change the place of delivery.
  • What stock is available in a particular shop / for a particular item?
  • I would like to reserve item xyz in a branch.
  • I would like to use a language assistant like Alexa to keep me informed about the status of an order - how does that work?

The Control Center for Your Customer Service Team

The aroma® Service Center module was developed in cooperation with Arvato's Customer Service department and is based on Arvato's decades of practical experience in customer communication.

By using this module as a "control center", you offer your customer service staff a wide range of options:

Overview of All Customer Orders

including all details such as order lines, communication history, finances, family members, status in customer loyalty programms (if available and connected)

Overview of All Stocks

in all stores and delivery locations, also from business partners such as drop shippers or 3PLs

Communication Templates

for all important processes to support in customer communication

Processing or Changing Orders

through extensive options, e.g. for partial cancellations, triggering replacement orders or giving away gifts

Accepting Orders by Telephone

due to overview of customer data and possibility to create tickets

Processing of Clarification Cases

by the possibility to create tickets and e.g. assign them to logistics (via integration in ticketing systems)

Simply Explained: Customer Service With aroma®

Benefits for You as a Retailer

Optimum fulfillment of customer requirements
Reduction of operating costs in the service center
International system with numerous languages for rapid internationalization of business
Integrated template module for the efficient support of all customer communication
International system with numerous languages for rapid internationalization of business
Benefit from arvato's decades of experience in the service center sector 
Happy customers

Deep Dive

White paper: Headless Commerce for Retail

For stronger customer loyalty: Headless commerce offers new approaches to mastering the complexity of Omnichannel commerce and deploying high-performance services.

Guide: Omnichannel IT Architecture

Benefit from the opportunities of digitization by making your IT architecture fit for the future.

Whitepaper: Omnichannel Order Management

These best practices help retailers overcome their Omnichannel Order Management challenges.

Whitepaper: Omnichannel means Omni-Convenience

Want to be where your customer is? Optimize your omnichannel strategy now and increase your customer satisfaction.

Demo: Take a look at aroma®

Our free demo gives you exclusive insights into the look and feel of our Order Management System.

Omnichannel: Terms & Definitions

Which are the different channels? What does resilience mean in retail? Which concepts are described by terms such as Click and Collect, BOPIL, ROPIS or Endless Aisle?

Consulting: Omnichannel Quick Check

Our Arvato Systems Omnichannel experts help you realize the full potential of your Omnichannel strategy.

Further functions and modules of aroma®

Extensive functions for optimal control of the omni-channel, delivery and financial processes. The DOM contains extensive business logic.

  • In addition to the physical processes, financial processes are also managed in Distributed Order Management (DOM) with regard to customer orders. These processes sometimes differ considerably depending on the payment method, country concerned and tax rates. aroma® supports these processes internationally. For this purpose, all prices and tax statements are kept in the system for the articles and orders.

    On this basis, the system generates the data records for the connected financial systems and, if required, also necessary documents such as invoices. Changes to VAT rates - e.g. 2020 in Germany within the scope of measures during the corona situation - are easily configurable in aroma®. Various payment options including ordering on account or mixed payment methods from credit cards and bonus points can also be mapped.

    As the system keeps all relevant financial information available, it is also possible to calculate in the system what amount is to be paid out to a customer for returns. Less powerful systems always fall back on the shop system - this causes unnecessary data traffic and often problems in customer service. Only when the relevant financial information is available in Order Management, as is the case with aroma®, can customer service staff also provide comprehensive information on financial topics.

  • Many retailers work with so-called dropshippers, i.e. partners who keep articles in their own warehouse and forward them to the orders for these articles. The forwarding of orders to business partners is comparatively simple. It is also important and more challenging to support the business partners in processing the order. To do this, the partners need an easy-to-use system that they can use from a standing start without any installation or preparation. Arvato Systems provides the Drop Ship module from aroma® for this purpose. Orders can of course also be transmitted to business partners simply via interface.

  • E-commerce and omni-channel processes always cause a lot of work when unplanned events occur, such as

    • an article that a customer has ordered is not available
    • an invoice from a customer is not paid at all or only partially paid
    • an incorrect article was delivered and the customer now wants a replacement article
    • a delivery takes longer than planned
    • a customer makes a chargeback, etc.

    Therefore one of the most important tasks of a Distributed Order Management System is to support these service processes. Arvato Systems has developed and optimised aroma® over many years on the basis of practical experience and thus helps to optimise service processes and implement them cost-effectively.


  • Business processes in omni-channel business are often long and complex. Our order management system aroma® simplifies the documentation, visualisation and modification of processes via an integrated business process management component. This gives our customers an excellent overview of the business processes and allows them to change them very easily at designated points.



    aroma® supports 2 types of process management:

    1. Simpler processes can be configured directly in aroma®.
    2. In addition, aroma works with a BPMN engine which can be used to create typical BPMN diagrams and modify processes at designated points directly in the BPMN tool (activity designer).


    This offers you clear advantages:

    • optimal overview of e-commerce and omni-channel process chains
    • simple and quick changes to the process chains at designated points
    • helpful documentation of the process chains
    • easier onboarding of new employees and partners
    • Efficiency increase and cost reduction in process management
  • As a retailer, you offer your articles today on many different channels, such as your own online shop and in the shops. Historically, different systems for maintaining and managing prices and promotions were often used for the different channels - this made administration slow, costly, and error-prone.

    We have developed the aroma® Price & Promotions module for the simple, fast, and central administration of prices and promotions across all channels.

    In addition, the module functions as a "historical memory", where all historical prices and promotions are stored. Based on predefined rules, the correct refund amount is calculated for the customer in case of returns.

    Your advantages as a retailer:

    • Profit from a highly efficient price and promotion module
    • Simplifying the management of prizes and promotions 
    • Unification across all sales channels possible
    • Optimisation of return payments, avoiding unnecessary high payouts
    • Reduction of operational costs in the management of prices and promotions
  • With the powerful aroma® administration console you make yourself independent of service providers and increase your flexibility at reduced costs - your team takes over the typical admin tasks of e-commerce and omni-channel operations.


    Your benefits:

    • Reduction of operational costs for the management of operative processes
    • Empowering your own team
    • Reduction of dependence on IT service providers and reduction of corresponding costs
    • high flexibility in the control of the omni-processes
    • Very good overview of all processes and configurations
    • clear reporting, monitoring and alerting
    • better customer service at lower costs and increased team satisfaction
  • The control and optimization of the delivery, finance and service processes is based on extensive data collection, reporting and analysis. aroma® provides comprehensive reports on the status of the business. In addition, running processes are automatically monitored in the background, anomalies are detected and processes are escalated if necessary.

    Examples of available reports:

    • Sales reports: summary or per article group incl. drill down on articles / various analyses (e.g. slow seller, top seller, ...)
    • Overview of incoming orders with analysis options according to various dimensions
    • currently processed orders incl. analyses according to order status
    • Customer reports and analyses (e.g. top customers, customers who return a lot, customers with numerous contacts in customer service ...)
    • Cancellations and returns, report on allocated goodwill credits
    • Report on stocks (e.g. total stock, reserved stock, expected stock, date of update of stocks, location of stocks, analysis of stocks by different types of stock such as "physical items versus licences")
    • Financial reports according to various dimensions and levels of aggregation, for example by item, currency, region, time, net sales, gross sales, etc.

    Reports can be filtered according to numerous criteria and contain aggregations / analyses for a quick overview. All reports can of course be exported in standard formats.