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Aftermarket Sales and Service

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    SAP ERP enables original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and third-party service providers to run service as a strategic line of business. It gives you the ability to manage all important operational and financial facets of your service organization.

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    The following business goals and objectives can be achieved through the implementation of these processes:


    Business Processes

    Service SalesSAP Component or Feature Available
    Close new service business by proactively monitoring equipment warranties, maintenance agreements, and service-level agreements (SLAs). You can manage incoming service inquiries and provide service quotations.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP ERP
  • SAP Price and Margin Management by Vendavo
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    Service Contract ManagementSAP Component or Feature Available

    Create and manage service contracts with related billing plans, price agreements and conditions. Service contracts can be referenced in subsequent service processes. Service plans enable contractual preventive maintenance strategies based on time and/or performance. 

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP ERP
  • SAP Price and Margin Management by Vendavo
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    Customer Service and SupportSAP Component or Feature Available

    Manage incoming service and support requests and identify customers with their respective installed base. Based on this information relevant warranties and service contracts are identified. Tasks to resolve the service issues can be planned with the necessary labor and service parts resources. 

     

    Returns Processing: Determines, tracks, and credits returns of products within a service, including the features warranty check, return reason recognitions, and quantity checks.

     

    Billing: Billing documents such as invoices, credit, or debit memos, can be created based on services rendered and/or resources consumed.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP ERP
  • SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe
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    Installed Base ManagementSAP Component or Feature Available

    Provide precise customer location and installed-equipment information to call center, field service, depot repair, and sales staff. 

     

    Phase-in and phase-out: You can maintain master data required to perform effective maintenance on a piece of equipment. This includes the Equipment Master Record, Maintenance Plan, Measuring Point, Task List, Bill of Materials (BOMs). Transfer assets from their current assignment, either to be reused by another department or company, or to be disposed of completely.

     

    Asset Scrapping: Once an equipment has been phased out of service it can be scrapped. This includes removing it from the financial asset register, complying with regulations regarding the environment, salvaging any re-usable parts, removing from site.

     

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP ERP
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    Warranty & Claims ManagementSAP Component or Feature Available

    Warranty Claim Processing fulfills the needs both of manufacturers, importers or vendors of complex products and their suppliers. Warranty Claim Processing offers a solution that can deal with a large number of warranty claims and, as far as possible, automatically. Only those claims that produce negative results in the automatic checks are included in manual processing.

      

    Product & Warranty Registration: You can create warranties and assign technical objects to those warranties. 

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP ERP
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    Field ServiceSAP Component or Feature Available

    Deliver the service to your customer base in the most efficient manner. Field service organizations need to have access to up-to-date information about service history and equipment configuration, manage service parts availability across the service network, track travel time, parts use, and other service-call data, and take advantage of emerging technologies such as intelligent devices.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP ERP
  • SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe
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    Depot RepairSAP Component or Feature Available

    Repair customer-owned equipment and service parts sent to repair depots. Manage the necessary labor and service parts resources.

    This process is supported by the following SAP and/or partner offerings

  • SAP ERP
  • SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe
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