SAP Coresystems – Field Service Management in SAP C/4HANA Suite

Overview: Coresystems AG is a software company which provides field service and workforce management solutions for technicians and business. SAP has acquired Coresystems-field service management recently (announced on 5^th June, 2018) to integrate into SAP’s Service cloud. This provides a platform to customers with a flexible and a powerful service environment and experienced technicians and experts. This new solution will help the company to respond faster to the customer service needs, supporting new business models and at a lower cost of service.

SAP is enabling AI based automated scheduling features for workforce management and Uberization framework for Crowd Service to enable Next-Gen Field Service Management for customers.

An example of features and demonstration on how the Coresystems-field service management works for imaginary company “Housepack” is illustrated below:

Features

1. Field service types
2. Employee status
3. Items
4. Equipment
5. Service calls
6. Activities
7. Skills
8. Best matching Technician
9. Reservation
10. Time and material journal
11. Reports

1. Field service types

HousePack provides 4 types of field service to its customers.

• Installation
• Maintenance
• Repair
• Gas filling

2. Employee status

Field service technicians are skilled and would be onsite with customers performing maintenance, repairs and finding solutions. The employees can be assigned to the field work on basis of their status.

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Indications: 1.Red-Busy 2.Green-Available  3.Yellow-not available  4.Pink-On break

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The employee can be assigned with service calls from “Planning & dispatching” board. The employees last sync status and the assigned service calls can be visible in the dispatching board. Skype call can also be placed to contact the employees.

3.Items

Items needed for field service can be maintained in the item list. Type of item, stocks of number of items and the price of item can be maintained for each item.

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4.Equipment

Each item can be assigned to an equipment. Each equipment will be associated with a business partner.

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Example: Microwave attenuator(item) is for the equipment Microwave oven and it is associated with business partner “Just Bakers”.

Skills required to operate the equipment and service calls associated can be viewed for each equipment.

5.Service calls

Best customer satisfaction comes when the services are provided at the right place and time. Service calls provides the information of the business partner, type of problem, inspection date, equipment and skills (if required) for best technician to provide the services.

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Service calls are prioritized with type and severity of the problem by [high, medium and low]. The service calls can also be filtered by customers, area, type and other requirements.

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6.Activities

Each service call can be associated with one or more activities. Each activity can be assigned to one or more technicians. Pink area shows non-working hours.

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7.Skills

Skills are associated with technicians, business partner and equipment to choose the best available technician as an expert service provider for customers.

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8.Best matching Technician

Best service provider begins with employee expertise. Based on skills, best matching technician can be chosen and assigned to the service calls.

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On service call , right click-> best matching technician, shows a list of available matching technicians and Franklin suits the most as an AC expert.

9.Reservation

The employees may be associated with a training to upgrade skills or be on a vacation. In order to filter out the employees, reservations of employees can be done to refrain from assigning service calls.

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10.Time and material journal

Time effort of the employees for each service calls and customers can be found in Time and material journal. These efforts can further be approved or rejected.

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Expenses spent by employee for either travel, meals etc can be recorded and further approved or rejected.

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Materials used from the warehouse can be tracked in T&M journal.

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Mileage covered to travel can be tracked in T&M journal.

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11.Reports

The large-scale overview of field service metrics offered by the Analytics Cockpit translates to added business intelligence. This valuable insight helps to recognize each area of function and optimization.

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Keeping track of activities in real-time helps in:

• Problem areas can be quickly identified
• Revenue and productivity measurements can be obtained accurately
• Transparent performance overviews
• Custom and standard reports can be created
• Customer requests can be prioritized
• Simplified compliance with service-level agreements (SLAs)
• Increased customer satisfaction

Coresystems offer a seamless offline functionality in mobile applications that help technicians to work in offline environment and sync their status later. SAP offers CPI framework and standard integrations to integrate to CRM on-premise, other 3^rd party systems and SAP ECC and S4 systems.