Service and Service Contracts


 

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Parameter driven set-up allows the software to be configured to the requirements of companies operating in a variety of Service industries. The Service module delivers a solution integrated into the supporting inventory and financial modules for complete control.

Structure

  • Fully integrated to other modules, including Inventory, Purchasing, Shipments, Debtors and General Ledger
  • Multiple Service Centres within a Branch
  • Parts sourcing from various warehouses, directly or by means of transfer requests
  • Define relationship with other Branches and Service Centres
  • Locations and Bays
    • Facilitate monitoring of physical location and/or status of a job
    • Turnaround and escalation warnings

Service Articles

  • Make and model codes determine various rules relating to work carried out on the article
  • Sub serials defined specific to user environment
    • Swap history kept per sub serial
  • Templates define user specific information
  • Service history with drill into job detail, and scroll through jobs
  • Service parameters and intervals, with warnings when services due
  • Link to a customer provides view into customer articles

Maintenance Contracts - Details

  • Maintenance Contracts controls the allocation of Service Job expenses.
  • Full matrix of what is covered under the contract stored on the contract type code.
  • Life of contract based on timeline and/or usage.
  • Date or usage based pricing.
  • Controls totals for provisions, revenue and costs stored at service article level and contract header level.
  • Extensive enquiries from every aspect, at summary and detail level.
  • Excess usage or abuse extra charges.
  • Add hoc or batch billings and ad hoc credits.
  • Contract Schedule and Quotation
  • Service Job costs are analysed against the contract

Warranty

  • Various types of warranty
    • Own, Vendor, Rework or combination
  • Parameters defined per model, product or service article
  • Specific fault codes and parts excluded from warranty
  • Sub serial warranties

Service Jobs

  • Fault Codes
    • Define standard parts, labour, outwork or charges
    • Provide headings within a job.
    • In Faults and Out Faults
  • Faults charged to customer, vendors, rework, warranty or third parties on the same job
  • Line types
    • Parts
    • Operations (Labour or Outwork)
    • Charges
      • Fixed amounts or percentage of parts, labour, outwork and/or charges
      • Costs and quantities
    • Swaps
    • Backups
  • Extensive table-driven customer pricing and discount matrices for parts, labour and charges
  • Outwork mark-ups based on cost
  • Outwork and buyouts via purchasing
    • Track serials sent to supplier
    • Effect swap if different sub serial returned
  • Book-in facility with automatic generation of jobs
  • Restrict job functions at employee and/or location level
  • Internal jobs and external jobs
  • Monthly internal jobs
  • Link jobs to assets
  • Full labour tracking
    • Productivity and efficiency reporting
  • Multi-currency
  • Credit control optionally applied while job is open
    • Authorise job to a specified value
    • Reserve available credit for estimated job value
  • Partial invoicing
  • Split value of fault between customer, vendors or warranty based on percentage
  • Sales analyses
    • Sales and service combined, or separate
    • Annual, quarterly or monthly
  • Budgets and forecasts for sales and service combined or separate
  • Actual vs standard comparisons

Quotes

  • Quotes are done as part of a job, where
    • Whole or part of a job can be in quote status
    • Quote can be partially accepted or rejected
    • Work can be carried out on a quote, if required
    • Multiple quotes per job

Tracking

  • Real time tracking of
    • Service history per customer or service article
    • Job status
    • Job activity
    • Labour
  • Enquire on jobs based on status and dates for
    • Service centre
    • Location
    • Customer
    • Service Article
    • Employee
    • Make
    • Model, etc