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Field Service Application Design
Siebel Field Service operates as a single Windows NT service that runs components such as EIM, Optimization Engine, Assignment Manager, and so on. Siebel Server operates components as processes or threads based on the system preferences specified for each component. Thus, there can be multiple components running at the same time and each component can run a specified number of tasks at a given time.
Siebel Professional Services Automation
Siebel Field Service is integrated with Siebel Professional Services, allowing the two applications to share resource management, cost tracking, and billing of longer-term service projects with milestone achievement time lines. See Siebel Professional Services Automation User Guide.
Field Service Engines
Siebel Field Service provides the following automated functions:
- Fulfillment Engine. Analyzes orders, locates parts for each line item, returns the located parts (products or substitute products) to the user, allocates parts, and generates pick tickets.
- Part Locator Engine. Analyzes orders, locates parts for each line item, and returns the located parts (products or substitute products) to the user. The user can manually allocate these parts and generate the pick tickets.
- Replenishment Engine. Selects source and target inventories when restocking is needed and generates the orders required to obtain materials from an external provider, an internal inventory site, or an internal manufacturing facility.
- Cycle Counting Engine. Generates cycle counting orders (parts lists).
- Preventive Maintenance Engine. Generates service requests for the maintenance of assets, based on predefined triggers.
- Mobile Inventory Transaction Engine. Generates inventory and asset transactions when a field service engineer reports part movements in the field.
To facilitate configuration, maintenance, and multi-language support, these components are implemented as business services. For information about business services, see the chapter on business services in Integration Platform Technologies: Siebel eBusiness Application Integration Volume II. For information about setting logging levels for these engines, see Engines Logging Levels.
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Siebel Field Service Guide Published: 21 April 2003 |