| # Field Service Use Serviceorderbeheer to create the order quotations, plan the order, and monitor the implementation of the order, process the order, book costs, and trigger invoicing. You can also use service orders to perform on-site repair, replace, or upgrade the serialized items or the installation groups. You can define orders such as internal and external orders, orders related to the work performed, scheduled and not-scheduled orders, inspections, preventive and corrective work. You can use the Service Scheduler Workbench to manage and perform planning activities. Service orders Orders that are used to plan, carry out, and control all repair and maintenance on configurations at customer sites or in company. Field Change Orders (FCO's) The production department or marketing department can begin a Field Change Order (FCO). Production errors or component updates can trigger a Field Change Order. The associated configurations or assets are selected. You can inform customers about problems that may occur and an expected time for repairs to equipment. When an FCO is used, costs are charged to the marketing or production department, and customers get the replacements and service activities. Plan and Release Service Orders After you create a service order with the appropriate labor and materials, you can plan the service order’s execution. This planning consists of assigning the material, providing for the necessary inventory transactions to ensure that the material is available, allocating engineers, and checking the business partner’s credit. Planning consists of two phases: global ERP and detailed ERP. You use Global ERP to make mid-term to long-term plans, such as several weeks or months. You use Detailed ERP to perform detailed planning for a few days or weeks ahead. Service Order Online Marginal Control Online margin control data is used to determine the financial visibility of an order that is proposed by comparing the total cost and the total sales amount. You can view the estimated or actual cost lines for a service order or service order activity. You can view the details related to the estimated or actual costs for all the service orders other than internal service orders. Field service returns Return material can be controlled by the service order. If the service engineer must replace a component at the customer site, the engineer knows the replaced component must be returned. When the parts must be returned, a warehouse order that has the Receipt type is created. You can send these parts back to designated warehouses to be used for work orders to complete repair of parts. Alternatively, the service engineer may have taken excess parts from warehouses to perform replacement activities. In these cases, the excess parts can also be returned to the warehouses. Costing All actual costs such as material labor, tools used, and travel costs can be registered. Declarations, hotel expenses, and so on can also be related to a service order. Expenses such as hotel invoices can be charged to service order. Subcontracting costs as well as hours spent on general issues such as car replenishment, car maintenance, and collection of parts can also be charged to a service order. |