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Siebel Partner Relationship Management Administration Guide > Managing Service > Managing Customer Service Requests > Scenarios for Field ServiceMany brand owners use partners to provide field service and other types of service that require use of parts to service assets that customers have purchased. Siebel PRM provides the Inventory screen and the Assets screen to support this sort of service. In this section, we will look at two typical scenarios for this sort of service: The Brand Owner and Partner Manage InventorySiebel PRM allows the brand owner and partners to work together to manage inventory, such as the spare parts that the partner needs to do repairs. The brand owner can share inventory with the partner. The partner can locate inventory and use it to service customers. The brand owner can automatically warn the partner if the inventory of a given part is too low. For more information about working with inventory, see Siebel Field Service Administration Guide. This scenario consists of the following steps:
Step 1: The brand owner sets up an inventory location for the partnerFirst, the brand owner sets up one primary inventory location for each partner who will use inventory. The organization for this inventory location should be the partner's organization, so other partners cannot see this inventory. To set up an inventory location for a partner
Step 2: The brand owner transfers products to the inventory locationNext, the brand owner associates products with the partner's inventory location. These may be transferred from the brand owner's inventory location, or they may be transferred from a virtual location that the brand owner created to hold products that will be transferred to partners. To transfer a product to the partner's inventory location
Step 3: The partner transfers inventory to inventory sublocationsThe partner service administrator logs into the Siebel Partner Portal and sees that this inventory location has been assigned to them. A small partner company with only one physical location for inventory could use this inventory location to represent its physical inventory location. A larger partner company with several physical locations for inventory would create a subinventory location under this inventory location to represent each of its physical inventory locations. Then it would transfer the inventory from the inventory location that the brand owner created to these inventory locations. To transfer inventory to product inventory locations
Step 4: The partner service agent finds needed partsNow, when a partner service agent needs a spare part, the agent can use the part browser to find where the part is located. The part browser limits the agent to the partner company's inventory locations. Then, when the partner service agent creates a service order, the partner associates it with the inventory location where this part was found. Siebel PRM automatically adjusts the quantity of that part in inventory to reflect the fact that parts were used in service orders.
Step 5: The brand owner monitors partner inventory levelThe brand owner can monitor each partner's inventory for each part by navigating to the Part Browser screen and to All Parts across Organizations view. The brand owner can monitor each partner's inventory locations by navigating to the Inventory screen and to All Inventory Locations across Organizations view. Then the brand owner can click the Product Inventory view tab and see if the partner is short of inventory by looking at the following fields in the Product Inventory Record:
The brand owner can set up Siebel Business Process Designer to automatically send the partner a notification telling the partner to reorder a part when the inventory of that part reaches the level in the Safety field. If the inventory of a part reaches the level in the Min field, Siebel Business Process Designer can send a more urgent warning to the partner, or it can send email to one of the brand owner's sales representatives who will contact the partner personally. The Partner Responds to Service Requests for AssetsIn this scenario, the partner uses the Assets screen to work with service requests for assets that customers have purchased. The brand owner can monitor the service requests for each asset. For more information about working with assets, see Siebel Field Service Administration Guide. This scenario consists of the following steps:
Step 1: The brand owner assigns assets to a partnerA partner who services assets must have a list of assets that have been sold to each customer. If the partner sells and services the product, the partner would create the asset record when they sell the product. In this example, the brand owner sells products and the partner services them. When a brand owner sells a product, it assigns the asset to a partner company to be serviced. To assign an asset to a partner company manually
Step 2: The partner logs a service request against the assetWhen a customer calls or comes in to request service on an asset, the partner service agent logs service request against the asset. The partner creates the service request record in the usual way, and associates it with an asset. To log a service request against an asset
Step 3: The partner looks at the history of the assetTo help in responding to the service request, the partner service agent uses the Assets screen to view all past service requests associated with the asset, see when the asset was installed, and look at other features of the asset's history. To look at the history of the asset
Step 4: The brand owner monitors a partner's service of assetsAt any time, the brand owner can use the Siebel Partner Manager to view all the assets of a partner and to view the service requests associated with these assets, to monitor the partner's service of each asset. To monitor a partner's service of assets
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