subject: How To Employ Work Order Software In Your Business [print this page] Consulting and repair businesses make their money by consistently and effectively managing and correcting issues within databases, equipment or accessories within their clients' companies. These consulting and repair businesses make it possible for the rest of the corporate world to effectively maintain their businesses and increase the lifespan for their equipment. The difficulty in managing hundreds of clients manually on a daily basis would be cumbersome to the point of impossible, tracking issues and appointments for consultants or finding repairmen to correct those issues. Therefore, most companies in these fields rely on a portion of CMMS Software called Work Order Software.
Getting Started
When a business functions as a support team for another company, there is a need to be aware of several details about their clients business at all times:
What are the details of the client's business? Name, address, type, location, future plans.
What model, make and type of equipment is being managed?
When was the equipment purchased by the client? Was it purchased through the consulting or repair service or was it purchased by the client directly?
What is the current status of the equipment itself? Is it functioning properly? Are there any disturbances in the way that it is working?
What is the depreciation value (if applicable) of each piece of equipment being monitored?
What purpose does each piece of equipment serve to the client? In other words, what is the work volume that each piece of equipment endures during business hours?
Starting with these criteria, the monitoring companies can now build a client database based on the acquired information in order to begin managing the equipment in question. Employing the Work Order Software system with the uploaded information, they can now begin gauging each of their clients' needs.
Streamlined and Automated
When your client has a problem with their equipment, they will contact your customer service department. The customer service rep on hand will take the information about the issue and key it in to the Work Order Software system in that client's file.
The software system will then create a Work Order ticket for your team to manage. Based on the customer information, the ticket will be assigned to a particular tech to handle for the client. Once the problem is resolved, notes applying to the work performed and any recommendations made will be put into the Work Order file and then the ticket will be closed.
Your company will be able to track the details of each open and closed ticket for each client at all times.
