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Service Management System

Overview

Service Management System (SMS) is web-based application developed for Service Management function at OTIS group of companies worldwide to simplify service business requirements.

Customers

OTIS Service Management function

The challenge

The main aim is to create a globally acceptable Service Management application to suit most countries. The aim is to provide an integrated solution to improve the management of OTIS service business.

The solution

To simplify and effectively manage service business, SMS encapsulates business processes and functions in the form of following functionality:

 

Organization:
Within this module, users are able to set-up a reporting structure of their country utilizing Districts, which are equivalent to Regions or States; and Branches, which are equivalent to Cost Centre. In addition, this module provides facility to define National Holidays, Local Holidays and Working Hours.


Employee:
This module enables employees and service routes to be linked to Offices. It maintains Employee Information and allows user to manage Employee substitutes and replacements. Employee positions are also included as a part of this module. This module allows for further evolution of the reporting hierarchy.

Territory/Route Module:
This module allows the creation of various service routes within Territories. Also this module is used to assign employees to the positions within the Territory.


Product Module:
This module maintains the entire range of Otis product information required for Service function. Product Data includes
1. Product Group, Product Type, Model Type
2. Components like Controller, Motor, Machine, and Governor etc.
3. Product Functions like Speed, Load/Duty, Rise/Travel, and Rope Ratio etc.

Contract Module:
This module is the heart of SMS application. It allows user to
1. Add Units & Building
2. Add Contracts & Transactions
3. Unit Technical details
4. Billing Transactions.
The details entered in this module are carried directly to every other module in SMS. This module can handle retrospective or future contractual entries.

Otisline: This module uses the data from the Contract Module to be able to receive calls from Customers and dispatch mechanics to the various sites to correct faults and/or release passengers. This module facilitate OTIS Call Center, Customer Service Representative with the information regarding the Service Contracts, units, location of the unit, Technical data for the unit to assist the Service Mechanic.Otisline has came up with the advance feature of CTI(computer Telephony Interface) to handle the customer calls effectively.

Auto Price Adjustment:
Price Adjustment is very simple and flexible tool. It allows for entering the price indexes for labor and Material price changes. Automatic Price Adjustment is based on Contract PA Frequency and defined Price Indices.

O Billing:
O Billing module is the invoicing engine for SMS. This module includes pro rata invoicing, revenue allocation, invoice periods.

T Billing:
T Billing module incorporates support to manage "T Jobs". This Module includes important functionalities such as T Job managing, T Invoice generation and T Revenue allocation, TCost Collection and Margin Analysis.

Otis Service Cost Analysis (OSCA):
This module is where timesheets are generated. It includes the cost-capturing engine. All Labor and Material costs are collected and analyzed against the revenue. This information creates opportunities for making sound business and operational decisions based on the actual data and trends.

Target Interactive Pricing System (TIPS):
This module allows Service Sales staff the capability to do 'O' (i.e. OM, POG and LOG) estimates based on SMS technical data or from duty tables once the Product Type is selected.

Annual Survey Report (ASR):
This module is primarily used for Risk and Hazard assessment. In addition, this module allows user to capture, analyze customer and unit surveys. The module also allows to configure templates of different survey types e.g. ASR, Risk & Hazard survey, Safety Survey, etc.

REM- Bridge:
Remote Elevator Monitoring (REM) Bridge: Alarms from REM system are automatically transferred to Otisline and callbacks are registered using captured alarms. This mechanism significantly cuts down Cycle Time to log Service intervention Request.

One Vision Integration:
With the latest integration tool SMS seamlessly integrates with One Vision to get the Material Costs and provide the revenue details to One Vision for the O and T Invoices generated.

Monitor and Escalate:
SMS allows Monitoring and Escalation of specific business process according to predefined set of procedural rules. Examples: Contracts expiring, Pending Estimates, Units to be modernized, Units having highest calls etc.

Exit Surveys:
SMS maintains Exit Survey for each Service Contract Cancellation. Survey is attached to Service Contract and Statistics on losses, Competitors, Market Price settings are collected.

Customer Complaints:
SMS records customer complaints, escalates them to the responsible party, monitors the resolution for medium and high severity and initiates customer satisfaction survey.

Service Level Agreements:
This module captures additional Contractual Service Level agreement options. Allows building the workflow using these Service Level Agreements for proper contract entitlement management.

Business Objects (BO) Reports:
All the reports are developed using Business Objects. This allows users to create their own local reports and ad hoc queries.

SMS Features

  • Completely web enabled application based on Microsoft .NET Technology, uses N-tier design
  • Development using latest technology. Excellent, rich and intuitive UI for easy navigation. .NET platform for long-term supportability.
  • Business Objects tool for Managerial reporting & data analysis.
  • Supports multi-lingual, multi-currency features.
  • Provides elaborate security mechanism to provide right access to right people.
  • Easy and powerful searching mechanism provided throughout the system.
  • Users / client base of 15 Asia-Pacific region and capable to grow to Global Service Management System for OTIS Worldwide.
  • The application will be available on web from Single Instance hosted at one central location.

The platform

Windows 2000 +, MS SQL Server 2000, IIS, XML/XSL, Jscript, ASP .Net, VB .NET, Business Objects

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