Inbound Email Workflow

Hey there,

System: SugarCRM Enterprise on premise with inhouse Exchange

Currently, I have people working on customer requests/emails in their OWA postboxes. The problem is, that I can not ensure, that those customer requests are being answered in time. Furthermore, the customer communication is not archived in CRM at all (only if the sales rep copy/paste it).

My idea of a worflow:

  • archive all inbound emails in CRM
  • link email to respective sender/contact/account
  • create task for each inbound email
  • assign task to respective team/user
  • set due date for task

Goals:

  • emails are beeing answered in time
  • emails are archived in sugar
  • it is possible to monitor/hand over open tasks/unanswered emails
  • ....

My current challenge is, that I cannot link a task to the respective email. There seems to be not relation.

Shall I use cases instead of tasks? How did you guys implement such a workflow?

Hope for a nice discussion

BR
Alexander