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Professional Service, Maintenance
and Job Cost Solutions
Service Manager
About Technisoft
• Technisoft founded 25 years ago
• Highly focused and qualified R&D team
• “Best” development practices applied
• Worldwide distribution & support structure
• Endorsed Supplier to Sage globally
• Sage 300 ERP Endorsed Development Partner
Markets and Customers
• Consumer electronics, IT & T, PABX, networking h/w.
• White goods, including AV equipment, commercial capital items.
• Mining, plant infrastructure.
• Jobbing (e.g. Engineering).
• Heating and cooling, commercial HVAC, industrial security.
• Pumps, motors, generators and other heavy equipment.
• Facilities management, commercial services.
• Service and maintenance contracts.
• Over 3,800 US Standard Industry Codes and vertical solutions
supported by Service Manager.
Some Service Manager Customers
russellfood.ca
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
Order Entry (link Only)
Sage CRM
General Ledger
Purchase Orders
Inventory Control
Service Manager
Serialized InventoryLot Tracking
Integration to Sage 300 ERP
Major functions include
Jobs Equipment Agreements
ReturnAuthorizations
Faults Query Tools Online Solutions
Employees
• Job types include– Current jobs (sales can be invoiced)
– Recurring jobs
– Historic jobs
• Job status and priority levels
• Multi-level structure (includes Projects)
• Provides complete financial information– Estimate, Actual and variance
– Work in progress
Jobs
Jobs
Job Tree – Document Entry
• Powerful notation function– General & critical warnings
• Custom fields
• Monitor
• Object inclusion
• Event manager
• Follow Up
Job Features
• Jobs can be easily created from– Quotations– Templates– Other jobs
• Transactions include– Labor allocation– Inventory issues– Purchase requisitions– Sub-contractors– Standard charges– Burden and overhead
allocation
Create Jobs Easily
Reports• Print various forms and reports
– Job cards– Picking slips– Invoices and credit notes– Quotations and customer confirmations– Job detail reports– User defined
• Use Crystal Reports, Insight and other tools
Time Entry
• Track employees & related information– Loading % – Cost and billing rates– Skills recorded– Linked to work group(s)– Commissions tracked– Work history retained– Performance reporting– Billable and non billable
time
Employees
Employees
Employees• Time processing
– Time recorder
– Direct time entry
– Timesheet matrix
option
– Remote processing
– Time manager
• Resource viewer
Equipment• Track equipment & related information
• Models
• Equipment
• Meters
• Maintenance schedules
• Faults, agreements and jobs
• Management information
Equipment
• Models– Manufacturer– Inventory relationship– Custom fields– Maintenance tracking– Meter tracking– Components– Accessories
Equipment
– Inherits from model– Serial number– In service date– Warranty– Meter tracking– Maintenance tracking– Custom fields– Components– Full history for life
Equipment
Equipment• Maintenance schedules
– Multiple schedules per equipment
– Based on metered conditions– Based on general conditions– Mandatory or optional– Create job or invoice– Automated activation– Uses templates– Checklists on jobs– Instructions on jobs
Equipment• Advanced Maintenance add-on
– Full task and activity based preventative maintenance
• Frequency or schedule based• Conditional, triggered by dates, meter reads, etc.• Interval based• Predictive maintenance triggers
– Task activities• Check procedure• Numeric measurement• Text input• Question
– Site and model/equipment maintenance
Equipment
• Advanced Maintenance setup– Maintenance calendars– Tasks and task activities– Maintenance entities
• Work to be performed, and when– Conditions– Tasks– Period Groups
– Worksheet groups– View and calculate loadings
• Determine resource requirements by calendar period
Equipment
• Advanced Maintenance Set Up– Maintenance setup– Enter meter readings if required– Post next maintenance period to worksheets– Group worksheets– Post worksheets to jobs– Complete tasks and activities in job– Complete all worksheets in calendar period– View statistics, totals & status at any point
Equipment
• Meters– Multiple meters per equipment– User defined quantity type– Last and current readings– Usage reading– Linked to planned maintenance– Reading schedules automated– Full history of meters– Apply take on values– Propagate Master Readings to Components.
Equipment
• Equipment FolioList all equipment at a site by
• Model• Site location• Equipment ID• Agreement
Equipment
• Management information– Full equipment history for useful life including
• Costs and revenue• Jobs• Meters• Maintenance• Replacements
Equipment
• Agreement types include– Meter agreements– Warranty agreements– Site agreements
• Multiple agreements per customer
• Multiple sites per agreement
• Multiple equipment per site
• Covers labor, parts, contractors and other
• Integral to Job Manager and Equipment Manager
Agreements
Agreements
• Common agreement
functions– Agreement status– Period of cover– Review date– Cover % (labor, items, …)– Warnings (% of revenue)– Points allocation/usage– Notations– User defined fields
Agreements
• Common agreement functions– Revenue to date– Costs to date– Agreement profitability– Full history– Detailed transactions– Jobs allocated automatically– User defined reports
Agreements
• Agreement setup– Provides a consolidated view of agreements by Bill To Customer
Agreements
• Agreement setup– Use the agreement wizard to create new agreements
Agreements
• Meter agreements– Equipment based– Periodic invoices– Based on meter readings– Invoice usage and parts/labor– User defined formulae– Multiple meters can be used– Automated meter readings
Agreements
• Warranty agreements– Supplier based– Choose by model or equipment– Automated claim management– Claims created from jobs– Claim on cover or cost values– Claim all parts, labor and other
Agreements
• Site agreements– Customer based– Include equipment by site– Recurring charges– Anniversary or schedule– Multiple billing lines– Revenue amortization– Automated invoicing
Agreements
Return Authorizations• Manage return authorizations
– Customer RAs– Vendor RAs– User defined status– Multiple equipment
per RA– Job or non job based– Print custom forms– History tracked
Return Authorizations
• Track the process– From customer
• Expected• Received• Returned
– To vendor• Expected• Received• Returned
Return Authorizations
• Knowledge accumulation
• Quick access to information
• Linked to models
• Easy fault search
• Updated from jobs
• Records– Problems (Faults)– Symptoms– Solutions
Faults
Faults
• Solutions linked to– Documents, objects, URLs, etc.– Billing templates for jobs– Skills required for repair– Degree of difficulty– Custom fields– Notations
• Full history
• User defined reporting
Faults
• Our Offline solution• Requires a central Windows
Server component installed• Runs on Windows notebooks
and tablets
VM Mobile Solutions
• The My Jobs interface allows employees to search for jobs to which they have been assigned
My Jobs
• Job information is loaded from the server if online, or from local data if offline
My Jobs: Grid view
• Color coded job list (optional) by job priority & status– Red
– Blue
– Green
• Entries in bold need to be “Received” (acknowledged) before they can be processed
My Jobs: List view
• The Job Tree may be used to gain an overview of a job
• Launched from My Jobs
Job Tree View
• Search for jobs containing
specific equipment, by– Serial Number
– Equipment Code
– Job Number
– Asset Number
• Create new job if
equipment found, but not
on an existing job
My Jobs: List view
• Customer signs off on a completed job
• Creates a notation with signature as attached .gif
Signature
Open Tasks
• The Open Tasks screen will show which jobs have Tasks that is still not complete.
• Can show all Open Tasks across all jobs or show Open Tasks for a particular Job
Employee Web Portal• Use web browser or SageCRM
– Access your Service Manager database– Field engineers and general staff can
• view and edit their jobs• On a touch screen accept customer signature• create new jobs or quotes• add notations and maintain custom fields• view equipment or site history• check warranty• search on serial numbers• read reports• complete jobs• raise invoices• print quotes, job cards/work orders
• List jobs the employee is assigned to
Employee Dashboard
Document Entry• Manage documents
Printing• Invoices and credit notes
• Quotations
• Work orders/job cards
Sage CRM Integration• My Service Manager
Signatures• Can insert Notations with signatures taken on a tablet
touch screen. E.g. customer approval of work
Notation Attachments• Support for viewing and uploading Notation attachments
(objects)
iPad and Tablet support
Sage CRM Integration• Workflow
Customer Web Portal• Customers can
– Log job requests– Follow status of job requests through to completion– Check their site and equipment history– Check billing history– Check agreement/contract information– Check preventative maintenance schedules, tasks and activities– Perform equipment, model and site searches
Dashboard• Dashboard shows
– My Requests– My Equipment
• View requests; create new request
• Equipment, model and site search
My Requests• View and edit document requests
My Equipment• Equipment, site, purchase, warranty, history and billing
details• Document requests• Maintenance tasks and activities
• Equipment Maintenance– Posted to job, awaiting posting to job, next maintenance due, future
maintenance
My Equipment
New Request• General site or specific equipment request
Search Tools• Equipment, model and site search• Filter and group as required
Request Manager (desktop))• In Service Manager, manage, review and post the requests
to jobs
• Full access to most functions
Request Manager (desktop))
• New Outlook style Calendar• Supports internal equipment management, employee &
contractor scheduling • Compatible with versions 5.6B and 6.0A / 6.0B• This product will be free for all current end users with active
software assurance as of 1st June 2012
For those not active it will be a US$995 upgrade direct Technisoft.for all new sites it will be listed in Sage Endorsed Price Book @ US$1495
• Advanced Scheduler supports Bing Maps; Sync Outlook Calendar; Printing ; Employee, Equipment and Sub-Contractor Resources; and more...
Advanced Scheduling)
Calendar
Resource Summary
Gantt View
Find, Reserve and Book Resources
Mapping & Routing
Exceeding Your ExpectationsContact us:
• Visit our website www.technisoft.com
• Email us at [email protected]
• Call us on +61 7 5554 5844