RFM Analysis Application for Customer Loyalty Identification in Bodywork PT. Bengawan Karya Sakti

The bodywork industry in Indonesia is under high competitive pressure, requiring companies to be more adaptive in understanding customer behavior in order to maintain business continuity. PT. Bengawan Karya Sakti as one of the national bodywork companies, has not optimally utilized historical transaction data to assess customer loyalty. This study aims to identify customer loyalty segmentation through the application of the RFM (Recency, Frequency, Monetary) method, which is used to analyze sales transaction data in 2022 and 2023. The study uses the CRISP-DM approach which includes the stages of business understanding, data exploration, data cleaning and processing, modeling, evaluation, and implementation of results. The transaction data analyzed includes attributes of transaction date, customer, number of transactions, and transaction value, which are then processed into RFM scores based on the transaction year and classified into categories such as Very Loyal, Loyal, At Risk, and others. The segmentation results show an increase in the number of very loyal customers from 2022 to 2023, as well as a significant decrease in inactive and at-risk customers. The chi-square statistical test shows that the difference in customer distribution between years is statistically significant (p-value <0.05), indicating a real influence from the company's strategy or external factors. The main conclusion of this study is that the RFM method is effective in the bodywork industry to support data-based marketing decision making and more targeted customer retention strategies.