Amazon ConnectNorth AmericaFootwear

Global footwear brand

Serving North American Customers from an Asian Agent Hub with Amazon Connect

Extended the same Amazon Connect instance to customers in the US and Canada, routing them to agents in Asia with the caller’s country and details in Salesforce.

200–500
Agents in the Asian hub
25–40%
IVR self-service containment
8–12 wks
Kickoff to go-live
The Challenge

Where the client started

  • The brand already ran Amazon Connect but needed one contact centre to serve customers across regions from an offshore agent hub in Asia.

  • Agents in Asia had to know where each caller was from the moment the call connected, and calls had to respect each region’s business hours across very different time zones.

  • Agents worked in Salesforce, so call context had to arrive there automatically instead of being re-keyed.

  • Customers in the US and Canada needed local numbers that land in the same global contact centre.

What We Built

The solution

US and Canada phone numbers

Local numbers in the US and Canada route into the global contact centre, so customers call locally while being served from the Asian hub.

Country detection

Contact flows tag every call with the caller’s country and route it to the right queue in the Asian hub.

Business-hours and time-zone routing

Hours of operation and queues are defined per region, so callers are only routed to the Asian hub during that region’s supported hours and shift coverage bridges the time-zone gap.

Amazon Lex self-service

A Lex bot in the contact flow resolves routine requests without an agent, keeping agent capacity for complex conversations.

Salesforce CTI Adapter

Embedded the Amazon Connect softphone in Salesforce using the Amazon Connect CTI Adapter, so agents handle calls without leaving the CRM.

Caller country passed to Salesforce

The caller’s country, identified in Amazon Connect, is passed to Salesforce as call data with every contact.

Visualforce screen-pop

A Visualforce page opens the customer form automatically on answer, pre-populated with the caller’s details.

Automatic Case and Contact handling

Contacts are looked up or created and a Case is opened automatically, so every call is logged without manual data entry.

Architecture

How a contact flows through the platform

  1. 1Caller dials a US or Canada number
  2. 2Contact flow detects country
  3. 3Amazon Lex self-service
  4. 4Hours and time-zone check
  5. 5Regional queue in the Asian hub
  6. 6Salesforce screen-pop with Case and Contact

Integrations

Salesforce Service CloudAmazon Connect CTI AdapterVisualforceAmazon Lex

Tech stack

Amazon ConnectAmazon LexContact FlowsSalesforceVisualforceCTI Adapter

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