Oracle Field Service
NorCal OAUG Training Day,
January 17, 2007
Almir Hrnjadovic
Dionex Corporation
Agenda
About Dionex
Original Business Process
Why Oracle Field Service
Oracle E-Business Suite Process Review
Demonstration of Oracle E-Business Suite Process
Dionex required customizations
Q&A
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About Dionex
Designs, manufactures and sells chemical analysis equipment
Approximately 1000 employees worldwide
Revenue $296 million for FY06
Uses Oracle E-Business Suite ([Link]) in North America
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Original Business Process
Used Siebel for Call tracking
No integration with Oracle E-Business Suite
Oracle E-Business Suite used for:
Order Management
Installed Base
Service Contracts
Service Billing
This caused duplicate and incomplete data entry
No control of Field Service inventory
No accurate entitlement checking
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Oracle Field Service Benefits
All Customer Interaction Captured in Oracle
Ability to Immediately Distinguish Between Contract, Warranty and
Paid-Day Customers.
Ability to Bill Paid-Day Customers for Phone Assistance
Ability to place Orders for Spare parts
Improved Communication with Field Representatives
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Process Overview Contact Center
Receive Customer
Inquiry
Review Installed Create Service
Verify Entitlements Record Symptom
Base Request
Resolve Issue/
Provide Solution
Close Service
Record Resolution Request
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Process Overview FS Representative
Receive Task/
Service Request Contact Customer Verify Symptom
Confirm Entitlements
Execute Service
Installation, Warranty call
, Contract call, etc.
Update Service Close Service Tasks
Record Resolution Record Charges and Request
Request
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Issues Encountered
Country value is stored and validated differently in HR and AR/OM
Address Flexfield.
This causes a problem. The HR Address is used for internal
requisitions which are interfaced into OM. This process failed
because the country flexfield value was incompatible between HR
and AR/OM.
Patch 5477155 was released by Oracle Development to correct
the issue along with the requirement to remove the value sets
associated with the HR Address flexfield.
However, this patch only works if youre not using Vertex Data.
Oracle Development is still working on final solution to this issue.
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Customizations
Service Request DFF to identify the SR problem code
User fills in multiple DFFs to build the SR Problem
Code
DB Trigger to update the SR problem code
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Customizations
OEOL Workflow update ship to contact for parts
requirement orders
The Parts Requirement form does not have a place to
specify the ship to contact. The Service Request has a
primary contact assigned to it and this customization
pull the OM Ship To Contact from this field.
A similar issue exists with the Service Charges form in
11.5.9. This has a ship to contact but it is also not
transferred to OM.
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Customizations
COGS Account Generator for Field Service Debrief Transaction
The default COGS account used for a Field Service Debrief Transaction
comes from the Item Master. This is a single value which did not meet our
requirement for a COGS account.
You can customize this following ML Note: 297328.1
This customization requires the following:
Develop a PL/SQL Procedure to be called by JTF_HOOKS
Develop a custom workflow account generator (this allows the dynamic insertion
of valid code combinations)
Integrate the custom workflow account generator into the AOL tables
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Oracle Field Service DEMO
Demonstration of Process
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Q&A