Business Scenario Maps Key Performance Indicators SAP Best Practices Partner Opportunities Customer Service is critical to the success of most businesses. Several components of Customer Service exist to support businesses in identifying, targeting and profitably exceeding their customers' expectations. Service Sales & Marketing enables companies to plan and execute marketing strategies and monitor their results for service related activities, which supports organizations in accurately planning and forecasting service sales activities, rapidly analyzing their service sales pipeline, effectively managing tasks, targeting cross-selling and up-selling opportunities, and promoting collaboration in a team-selling environment. This enables companies to plan and forecast services and the necessary resources (people, parts, tools). Most companies also provide service to customers through Interaction or Call Centers. Customers can contact your company through their preferred channels, including telephone, email, fax, letter and web chat. Interaction Center agents can record service requirements and provide updates on existing service requests with a full view of the customer's installations & assets, their complete service history, planned services and relevant recalls or service letters. On-site appointments for service technicians can be scheduled by the Interaction Center agents, even combining reactive service visits with existing preventive maintenance plans. more...Business Goals & ObjectivesImproving Customer Service Better service levelsImprove forecast accuracy Increasing Revenue Improve customer retention and loyaltyProvide competitive service offerings
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Strategic Service Planning![]() |
Provides long range analytical planning of future resource requirement for the anticipated service business. more... |
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Service Contract Processing![]() |
You use this process to create a service contract that can be used later on as a basis for service processes. Enables companies to provide solutions to their customers on demand and a billing model where they pay for what is used in a service scenario or as part of an integrated scenario with financing contracts. |
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Installed Base Processing![]() |
An installed base can be used to manage service-relevant
information for products or services that have been installed at
customer sites. For example, a network server can be represented
as an installed base, with specific information relating to
sub-assemblies or key components visible for determining warranty
and repair information during a trouble call.
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Product and Warranty Registration![]() |
You use this process to create warranties in the system and to assign installed base components or individual objects to these warranties. The assignment can be performed manually, or automatically with reference to a product with warranty assignment. After registering an individual object, Internet customers in E-Service for example, receive the information about the automatically assigned customer warranty on their screen.
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Complaints Processing![]() |
Provides processes to track and manage complaint information through resolution. Enables complaints to be created and tracked on the Web and routed to development, if necessary. |
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Customer Service & Support![]() |
Enables companies to manage inbound and outbound communications
across multiple channels with their existing customer base.
Supports interaction center agents in solving customer complaints,
creating service orders based on existing service contracts, and
offering appointment scheduling. Web-based self-service solutions
enable customers to track order status, maintain their installed
base, and display billing and payment information. Also provides
partners and customers with direct access to service center
representatives, using chat, e-mail, co-browsing,
Voice-Over-Internet Protocol, or callback from the Web.
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Self-Service Support through FAQ and Solution Search![]() |
In this process customers try to solve their product problems through searches of frequently asked questions (FAQs). FAQs are sorted by product. Each FAQ is linked to a list of possible solutions. FAQ Search is a self-service tool that reduces interaction costs, increases customer satisfaction and improves efficiency and profitability. |
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Returns Processing![]() |
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Service Support Analysis![]() |
Provides service support analytics, including installed base analytics, service contract analytics, and service level agreements analytics. |
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