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Service Management

Service organizations are under pressure, as customers expect reliable service delivery and fast, clear follow-up. At the same time, you want to keep processes efficient and to prevent errors. This requires a well-aligned end-to-end chain, from customer contact to on-site execution. This is particularly important for companies where downtime has a major impact, such as in manufacturing and process industries where production lines often run 24/7, in utilities where continuity of supply is essential, or in technical service organizations, where contractual agreements apply.

Your processes under pressure

Even small disruptions can have a major impact on costs and planning. When information is missing or steps are not executed correctly, operations quickly come under strain, expecially in organizations where machine or infrastructure failures have an immediate impact. This can, for example, affect safety, production output, or compliance with SLAs.

As a Service Manager, you will likely recognize situations such as:

incomplete or inconsistent incident reports;
work preparation that is late or incomplete;
technicians who lack information on-site;
administrative tasks that are left undone;
difficulty exceeding customer expectations without increasing costs.

Key components of Service Management

Within Service Management, Customer Service, Work Preparation, and Field Service Management form a single, integrated whole. Digitally connecting these components creates insights, tranquility, and control across operations.

Our people experience that digitally connecting this service chain helps to respond more quickly to malfunctions, plan more accurately and manage field technicians more effectively. As a result, both lead times and the reliability of service performance improve.

Check the key components below:

Customer Service

Proper digitization of customer service processes creates a structure in which reports are recorded in full and follow-up is always transparent. Centralization also allows you to respond more quickly and reduce errors.

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Work Preparation

Digitizing work preparation brings peace of mind and predictability. Automatic prioritization, comprehensive file management, and insight into the availability of materials form a solid and reliable basis for flawless execution.

Field Service Management

The results of a well-designed field service process are higher first-time fix rates and less administrative pressure. It also allows your field staff to focus fully on what they do best.

Solutions that work

With our SAP solutions, you bring this chain together. You create a clear overview, standardize processes, and support teams with real-time information, making your service faster, more consistent, and therefore more reliable. Service activities also comply better with regulations, without compromising efficiency or cost control.

Explore the solutions below:

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SAP Service Cloud

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SAP S/4 Service

SAP Field Service Management (SAP FSM)

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SAP Service & Asset Manager (SSAM)

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SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

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SAP S/4HANA

Extensions

Extensions give SAP solutions immediate additional power by enhancing them with tailored mini-applications. These can be developed for virtually any SAP environment, from FSM and SSAM to additional functionality outside the S/4HANA core. This allows us to quickly adapt the software to your unique processes without changing the core. So, your landscape remains Clean Core and upgrade-proof.

Examples include more intuitive workflows for technicians, ultra user-friendly screens, smarter schedules, or dashboards that drive results. Organizations that use extensions accelerate innovation, increase efficiency, and achieve a tangible impact on day-to-day operations.

More about our extensions

Our services

Our services are always centered around one mission: helping organizations and their people grow further in their technical environment. We draw energy not only from systems, but especially from teams that are getting stronger in their day-to-day work. In sectors where processes run 24/7 or maintenance must be carried out within tight time frames, continuous support is essential to ensure continuity.

We offer the following services:

SAP Licence Service

What licenses do you need for your planned growth? As a strategic SAP partner, we offer honest, future-oriented advice about the licenses you need.

SAP Consultancy

With our quick scan, we provide clear insight into existing processes and identify opportunities for improvement. Based on these findings, we support organizations with targeted process optimization, enabling workflows to be structured more efficiently. Through SAP integrations, we ensure seamless connectivity between SAP and other systems. This results in a future-proof environment in which service and maintenance processes operate reliably and efficiently.

SAP Support

Your system always works optimally with our SAP support. We support you reactively, as well as proactively.

For these companies, we apply our expertise

Curious about how we work?

Read a selection of our cases and get a sense of the impact our people and SAP solutions make across different industries.

Eneco

Vitens

Brabant Water

The experts at Ideo have launched a successful mobile app together with our technicians and IT colleagues.

Energy company Eneco is furthering its digitization efforts for their service and maintenance process with SAP Service & Asset Manager (SSAM). The implementation of SSAM contributes to the rapid professionalization of the entire service and maintenance process.

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The new work order management makes the 180 technicians much more effective and data quality increases.

Ideo implements a new work order management system at Vitens Netbeheer & Levering.

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The inspectors can easily perform inspection tasks with their mobile devices and send the collected inspection data directly back to the SAP back-end system.

Implementation of a paperless inspection process saves Brabant Water 250,000 A4 sheets. This was achieved with SAP MRS planning board and SAP mobile.