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Empower Service Operations with D365 Field Service
Does your company want to harness technology to enhance service delivery? Then Dynamics 365 Field Service could deliver many benefits to your business. Today’s blog explores some of its top functionality and use cases.
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Delivering quality customer service in today’s working world is crucial. Leveraging a customer-centric solution can help organisations consolidate the management of people, places and processes to deliver an enhanced service. This is where Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 Field Service can help. Designed to empower field service workers to make their daily tasks easier by integrating a tool to help them streamline tasks on the go across locations. D365 Field service can help organisations make more service calls, easily track and resolve customer issues, manage resources and equipment more efficiently and enhance customer communications.
Below we explore in more detail some of the ways that Dynamics 365 Field Service can help organisations elevate service delivery operations.
Personalised Customer Experience
D365 Field service can help deliver an enhanced customer experience in many ways. One way is by providing self-service scheduling, allowing customers to schedule at their convenience while workers can gain visibility via a customer portal. Workers can also automate communications with customers via texting and email. Users can also automate personalised surveys after completing a service call to gain customer insights.
Optimise Service Operations
Harness D365 Field Service to improve service operations by using AI scheduling recommendations and optional automated scheduling for companies to identify the correct technician for the job. Make resource management easier with a drag-and-drop scheduling board and a live map to identify the nearest worker. Further, improve resource efficiency with built-in schedule board optimisation and insights. D365 Field service also has inventory, purchasing, return and billing capabilities.
Boost Worker Productivity
With a mobile-friendly experience, workers on the field can manage work orders, appointment scheduling and time tracking. Workers can also update customer cases on the go with the ability to add video content, photographs or voice memos. Workers can use Dynamics 365 remote assist to consult with customers in real-time remotely and solve issues quickly. Workers can also use D365 Copilot, an AI-powered work assistant to help streamline repetitive tasks.
Better Service Delivery
D365 Field Service can leverage the Internet of Things (IOT) and AI functionality to enable remote troubleshooting and predictive maintenance before the customer flags the issue and request an appointment. This empowers companies to monitor assets and equipment in real-time, detect any potential issues before they have a chance to escalate and book maintenance activities. Data-driven analysis can help organisations optimise all the different elements of service delivery by identifying trends and measuring performance to find opportunities for improvement.
Common Use Cases for D365 Field Service
The D365 Field Service application provides an application that is suitable for a number of key roles on a service team. These include;
Customer Service Agent: Agents can use the application to triage any incoming requests and determine whether it is appropriate to create a work order for a site visit.
Field Technicians: Technicians who are assigned the work orders and are visiting a number of locations, the mobile application for a phone or tablet makes it easier for them to manage their assigned work and perform repairs and maintenance on the go.
Service Dispatchers: Workers in this role review and schedule work orders and assign them to the correct resources who have availability using the scheduling board on D365 Field Service.
Service Manager: For workers who have the role of overseeing service delivery and finding ways to deliver service efficiencies, they can use D365 field service to track performance metrics and find ways to optimise the process.
Inventory Technicians: Workers in this role must ensure the field service technicians have the correct inventory for the service calls they need to make. The application can help support the management of this.
While these key roles are present across a number of industries, some of the common ones that could benefit from D365 field service include manufacturing, utilities, equipment maintenance and healthcare.
If you would like to learn more about D365 Field Service, get in touch to speak to one of our Dynamics 365 experts today.
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