A record of the actions taken by an employee to repair an item with serial number and/or to resolve customer complaints.
General information
- On Service call is the ongoing contact with customers in all service matters.
- Each service case is recorded using a service call and can be processed by different employees.
- The service call is available at Service > Service call to find.
- Status options:
- My open service calls
- My overdue service calls
Creating a service call
- Certain fields must be maintained, including
- Business partner
- Contact Person
- Manufacturer serial number
- serial number
- Articles and item group
- description
- A topic for the service call must be specified.
- The call-off status must be set (Open, Completed, Pending).
- Priority must be selected (Low, Medium, High).
- Other fields such as origin, problem type and problem subtype should be filled in.
- A technician, agent or service queue must be assigned to the service call.
- There is the possibility to Express service call with only the most important information.
Activities in connection with service calls
- Activities can be linked to a service call.
- In the tab "Linked document" in the window "Activity", the service call is displayed as the source object.
Tabs in the Service call window
- General: Contains general information on the service call.
- Solutions: Linked to the solution database.
- Related documents: Recording of all transactions and expenses associated with the service call.
Charging for services
- Services covered by the service contract appear on the outgoing invoice without a price.
- In the window "Document details related to service call" invoiced items, labour and travel expenses can be recorded.
Further functions and reports
- Of the Linkage plan provides an overview of all documents associated with the service call.
- Various Service reports provide an overview of open, overdue and critical service calls.
- Examples of service reports:
- Service calls
- Service calls according to service queue
- Response time by person responsible
- Average time to completion
- Of the Service Monitor shows the number of open and overdue service calls.
- Additional reports:
- My open service calls
- My overdue service calls
Service queue
- With the report "Service calls according to service queue" service queue members can monitor their assigned service calls.
- Service queues and their team members are displayed in the "Service Queues - Definition" created.
Solution database
- Once a service call has been entered, an entry can be made in the Solution database with the corresponding cause of the problem and symptom.

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