Cognitive Convergence - Dynamics 365 Field Services Consulting-Rev2
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Cognitive Convergence is a subject matter expert in Dynamics 365
About Us consulting having certified and experienced consultants which will
create custom, robust, and scalable apps for different business needs in
no time.
Our core Dynamics 365 Field service consulting are:
Schedule optimization
Asset management
Invoice processing
Improve first-time fix rate
Complete more service calls per technician per week
Schedule onsite visits when it's convenient for the customer
Reduce travel time, mileage, and vehicle wear and tear
Organize and track resolution of customer issues
Detect service issues remotely with IoT.
Keep customers updated with the status of their service call and
when it's resolved
Use insights to schedule preventive maintenance.
Manage follow-up work and take advantage of upsell and cross
sell opportunities
Current Location: Lahore, Pakistan
Planned Front-end Office: California/Washington States- USA
Microsoft Dynamics 365
Microsoft Dynamics CRM, an excellent customer relationship management (CRM) software. Its helps to:
Accelerate the business growth with connected business applications to optimize the operations.
Drive better outcomes across the business by combining the data with AI.
Encryption, and role-based access to auditing and logging.
Handle customer databases efficiently.
Generate new leads.
Tackle customer service problems.
Deliver more value in less time.
Enable teams to accelerate results.
Customer insights.
Editable grids.
Web API enhancements.
Activity sorting control.
Programmatic management of product properties.
Define access permission for modular business apps.
Use form scripts to add icons with tooltip text for view columns
Modules of Dynamics 365
Customer Service
Field Service
Finance and Operations
Marketing
Project Operations
Retail
Sales
Human Resources
Supply Chain Management
Business Central
Commerce
Field Service Overview Field Service (formerly known as Field Service Lightning) business
application helps organizations deliver onsite service to customer
locations
Combines workflow automation, scheduling algorithms, and
mobility
Set up mobile workers for success
Improve first-time fix rate
Complete more service calls per technician per week
Manage follow-up work and take advantage of upsell and cross
sell opportunities
Reduce travel time, mileage, and vehicle wear and tear
Organize and track resolution of customer issues
Communicate an accurate arrival time to customers
Provide accurate account and equipment history to the field
technician
Keep customers updated with the status of their service call
and when it's resolved
Schedule onsite visits when it's convenient for the customer
Avoid equipment downtime through preventative maintenance
Benefits of D365 Field Service
Some benefits of Dynamics 365 Field Service are:
Create records that represent your field service workers,
dispatchers, and agents, and add details about their skills,
location, and availability
Set up multilevel service territories that represent the regions
where mobile workers can provide services
Track the location and status of your inventory, warehouse,
service vehicles, and customer sites
Schedule one-time or recurring work orders for customers, and
add details about worker preferences, required skills, and parts
Real-time remote expert collaboration using mixed reality.
Create maintenance plans and templates to standardize your
field service tasks
Generate service reports to keep customers informed about
service progress
Smart route planning
Time Entries
Process of recording the actual time that a
resource consumes.
Allow cost and sales prices to be calculated
as tasks progress
Help the Project manager keep on top of
projects and tasks
Notify Resource managers of any potential
vacation or absences
Help field service organizations better
track the time
Time entries are useful for:
o reporting
o understanding utilization
o billing and invoicing for service
Users can track against any level in the
project.
Team members create and submit time
entries for approval
Dimensions &Time Entry
Dimensions:
Dimensions section shows the dimensions that time can
be entered against
Out of the box supported dimensions
o Project
o Project Task
o Role
o Type
o Entry Status
Do not allow inline editing
Time Entry Status
Draft: New time entries are automatically assigned a status of
Draft. Only time entries that have a status of Draft can be
deleted.
Submitted: When a time entry is submitted, the status is updated
to Submitted.
Approved: When a submitted time entry is approved, the status
is updated to Approved.
Returned: If a time entry is rejected, the status is updated
to Returned, and the entry becomes available for
correction and resubmission.
Time Off Requests
Formal request from an employee to take time
off.
Exact content depends on the organization’s
requirements
Best practices
Having a policy when multiple people want the
same day off
Setting up rules when people can ask for time
off
Separating requests for holidays from those for
medical reasons
Not asking for too much personal information
Users with Field Service-Administrator or
Field Service-Resource security roles can
approve time-off requests
Unpaid & Paid Time off request
Unpaid Time Off
Unpaid time off requests are time away from work without wages
Laws for unpaid time-off vary state-to-state
Includes any absence from work not covered by existing employee
benefits
Employee eligibility matters for unpaid time-off
Paid Time off request
Benefited program that permits employees to take time off work for
a specific number of days
Workers can take a leave from work while still earning wages.
Amount of time off given to staff members, limited to a set amount
of PTO hours each calendar year
Includes:
Medical Leave
Bereavement leave
Annual leave
Parental leave
Vacation requests
Bookings Overview
Booking Statuses:
Precisely reflect your processes bespoke booking
statuses and accompanying colors can be set.
Set statuses will appear on the scheduling board.
Addition to confirmed bookings, other statuses could
include:
o proposed bookings,
o showing travelling time,
o work in progress
o and completed jobs.
Booking Rules:
Allowing systems admins to define warning alerts
or error message,
Triggered when users create or edit resource
bookings based on custom conditions.
Bookings Structure Territories:
Organizations works across different geographical areas;
service territories can be configured to help
scheduler.
Quickly find the best qualified resources within a defined
territory.
Benefits
Inventory measurement at all levels including truck, depot, and warehouse
Automated inventory management can be configured based on field use, transfers, new purchases, replacements,
returns, and so on.
Integration with IoT for implementing connected inventory
Efficient inventory forecasting and cost management
Product Overview Product
The product includes the following:
o Warranty information
o Price
o Model number
o Serial numbers
Price List
Customer will be charged for your product and services.
Field Service price list is associated with work orders and includes a series of extensions to the
standard Dynamics price list capability.
Services includes:
1. Functionality to allow for a minimum charge
amount to reflect a base charge for all call outs,
2. A minimum charge duration and flat fee pricing
for fixed cost visits.
Inventory Migration
Transfers
Transfer inventory from a source warehouse to a destination warehouse.
Common example of this is transferring inventory from a warehouse to a technician’s truck.
Adjustments
Manually add or subtract inventory from warehouses.
Used for routine checkups to reflect shrinkage and defects.
Helps compare expected inventory to actual inventory,
Helps adjusting for the difference.
RMAs
RMA - Return Merchandise Authorization
RTV - Return to Vendor
RMA should be created in Field Service when a
product is returned.
There are three ways of returning a product:
o Return to warehouse,
o RTV,
o Change equipment ownership.
All product returns should begin with an RMA.
The RMA is associated to the:
o Product,
o Unit,
o Quantity,
o Related work order,
o Price list for the return,
o Type of return.
RMAs Inventory
RMA Receipts
Responsible for the return
Allocated a date when the product
would be taken by someone.
Captured in RMA Receipt along with the quantity.
After this RMA receipt is processed, the correct
inventory or equipment adjustment is carried out.
RTVs
Field Service supports three out-of-the-box returns:
o Return to warehouse
o Return to vendor
o Change of equipment ownership
Return is not finalized until an RMA receipt is created.
RMA receipt confirms that the correct product and
quantity are received
Common examples for why returns may be
initiated include:
o Part or equipment is defective.
o Customer is dissatisfied.
o Repair is needed and the repair will not take
place on site, but back at the service provider's or
manufacturer's location.
o Equipment was at the customer's location as
part of a lease that is ending and will not be
renewed.
Inventory
Warehouse
Provides a detailed inventory and transaction history.
Represent a fixed warehouse, or a vehicle used by field service engineers.
Each product in the warehouse this reports the physical quantity at the warehouse
on the van, the quantity allocated, volume on order and the actual quantity available.
Products carried on a van; engineers can use the Field Service mobile app to add items to a work order that will u
pdate the inventory accordingly.
Purchase Orders
Purchase orders (POs) are used to order products to a warehouse or
directly to a work order to complete on-site work.
Track items that need to be ordered from suppliers with associated
system statuses including submitted, received and billed.
Enabling more precise tracking of purchase order statuses in line with
custom-made processes.
The purchase order process includes:
o Requesting products from a vendor by creating a purchase order
and adding Purchase Order Products.
o Gaining approval.
o Documenting receipt of products by creating a PO receipt and PO
Receipt Products.
o Add the received products to warehouse inventory or as work
order products.
Purchase Orders Structure
Invoicing
Invoice printout directly in CRM
Transfer billing information to an ERP System
Distinction between intercompany invoices and external
invoices
VAT management, also according to foreign business
activities
Consideration of performance periods
Agreements
Provides the framework to automatically generate work orders and invoices.
Agreement record can define the frequency that work orders are generated and the detail of the work order for
maintenance work.
Agreement records details customer information including:
o billing account,
o start / end dates
o and pricing.
Agreements Set-up
Agreement Booking Set-Up:
Defining the type of activity that much be performed.
Priority level and if a work order should be automatically scheduled
Many days in advance a work order will be generated for flexibility to fit in with a customer's availability.
Payment Terms:
Used with purchase orders enabling purchase managers to set these when creating a purchase order.
Tax Codes:
Specifying how tax will be applied to your products, agreements and services
Field Service Schedule Dashboard
Resource and operations managers need to be able to monitor key operational
metrics so that they can gauge resource and scheduling
performance
Field Service and resource scheduling optimization provide three
reports focused on different scenarios and user personas:
1. Resource and utilization, included with Field Service
2. Resource scheduling optimization admin, included with resource
scheduling optimization
3. Optimization summary, included with resource scheduling optimization
Schedule Dashboard - KPIs
Performance
Loading the schedule board
Selecting schedule board tabs
Dragging and dropping work orders
Rescheduling bookings
Whom does this feature benefit?
Management team and the dispatchers
Company resources
Your business as a whole
Usability and accessibility
Schedule board made up of Power Apps Component
Framework (PCF)
Control based on the Unified Client Interface.
More flexible, supportable, and accessible.
Work better on different screen sizes and across form factors
Resource Management
Bookable Resource:
Anything that needs to be scheduled is classified
as a bookable resource.
Individuals who may be users, contacts and accounts.
Includes company assets and crews of worker
Bookable Resource Categories:
Each bookable resource can be grouped by type.
o Technician (Individuals)
o Supervisor (Individuals)
o Subcontractor (Individuals)
o Vehicle (for field service job)
o Equipment (for field service job)
Resource Pay Types:
Tracking the organization’s costs associated with a
resource booking.
Resource Properties Characteristics:
Define the skills and competencies of each resource.
Includes tracking of individual qualifications,
certifications and experience.
Help schedulers find and book the best suited individuals
for each requirement.
Proficiency Models
Proficiency Models are also known as Rating models.
Values that can be optionally added to a bookable
resource characteristic.
Rating model is the ‘container record’ that holds the
different values that a user can rate a resource as for a skill
or certification.
There are 3 Rating Values:
o Familiar
o Good
o & Proficient
Resource Templates
Work Hours Templates
Create and manage a project
Apply a calendar template to the project.
Calendar template defines the following project attributes:
o Working hours, including start and end time
o Working days
o Calendar exceptions such as non-working days
Calendar template that's applied to a project is a copy of the calendar
template defined in the organization’s settings.
Two key requirements:
o Define the desired working hours of the template using a new
or existing bookable resource.
o Create a new calendar template and associate the template with
the bookable resource.
Resource Groups
Requirement Group Templates
Groups of resources that would be appropriate for a job
Schedule all those resources with a single search.
Mix and match the different types of resources such as:
o Individual field technicians,
o Whole crew,
o Equipment,
o Or facilities needed for a job.
To schedule multiple resources with requirement groups,
follow these steps:
1. Create a requirement group template.
2. Create a new requirement group.
3. Book the requirement with the scheduling assistant.
Resource Example
For example:
Use a requirement group to find resources for a work order requiring:
o One field technician with skill A and skill B
-or-
o Two field technicians, one with skill A and the other with skill B.
Use a requirement group to find resources for a sales demonstration requiring:
o Two people in the same sales territory, with both working onsite.
o Two people in the same sales territory, with one onsite and one working remotely.
Assets
Helps in keep tracking of the equipment
Useful in maintaining a list of serviceable items related to a service location.
With connected field service, connect customer assets to sensors that monitor the asset’s health and trigger IoT alerts and
work orders
Components defined as a Sub-Asset of an Asset behave like “child” equipment associated with a “parent” equipment
One Asset can have many sub-assets
Allows to link a product to a service account
Sub-assets can be removed or reassigned to another Parent Asset
configured in a hierarchy to maintain service history at the sub-component level.
IoT Devices
Connected Field Service for Dynamics 365 integrates Internet of Things (IoT) devices with Dynamics 365 for Customer
Engagement
IoT Central device dashboard can be updated with relevant service and scheduling information
Pros
Simple architecture
Short time to market
Doesn’t require specialized skills
Cons
Customizations are not possible
Device-level services are not exposed
Powerful IoT Capabilities
Connected Field Service is very powerful in allowing IoT scenarios
Fully customizable and extensible.
Enabled for any entity to be IoT-enabled for straightforward IoT integration
Brings several new entities and custom actions specific to IoT.
New custom actions allow:
o Device registration scenarios,
o Ability to parse incoming messages for String,
o Number,
o Boolean data types,
o Capabilities to handle duplicate messages that may be received from an IoT device.
IoT device data in custom dashboards to display:
o aggregates,
o determine trends,
o or other metrics.
Functional Location
Allows for more location granularity on a few relevant Field Service entities, such as:
o Within a service account
o On an asset
o On a specific work order
Represented by hierarchical relationships
functional locations can be used without being associated to service accounts
Assets can also be associated directly to a functional location
Functional locations help flesh out work order details
Multiple accounts can be associated to a functional location tree
Field Service technicians can see functional locations from their Field Service
mobile apps
Reporting of Field Service
Business value
In order for service managers and dispatch
ers to ensure they are providing effective
service.
This new dashboard provides
out-of-the-box field service metrics and
measures.
Dynamics 365 Development Services
1. Dynamics 365 Consulting/Customization
Create and customization of schema features, metadata, business logic, design user-friendly dashboards, forms and views,
notification templates, and optimization.
Offer customization such as adding new fields, custom workflows, data collection and data processing.
Extensively result-driven services help businesses transform various business operations.
Successfully maintain quality customer services, enhance customer acquisition, conversion, and retention
Customize the applications to deliver the best solutions
Help different organizations to transform the business by earning profit and reducing costs.
Assist clients with Dynamics 365 implementation
Dynamics 365 Development Services
2. Dynamics 365 – Power Platform Development
For each module Dynamics 365, we offer:
Custom solution development via Power Apps, process automation/workflow
management
Turn ideas into organizational solutions by enabling everyone to build custom
apps that solve business challenges by using Power Apps (Canvas &
Model-Driven).
Boost business productivity to get more done by giving everyone the ability to
automate organizational processes by using Power Automate
Dashboard-graphs implementation via Power BI & Make informed, confident
business decisions by putting data-driven insights into everyone’s hands.
Easily build chatbots to engage conversationally with your customers and
employees by developing intelligent chatbots via Power Virtual Agents.
Dynamics 365 Development Services
3. Dynamics 365 Mobility Solutions
Custom development for almost every type of computer device
Advanced structural development service for different kinds of devices
like:
o Dynamics 365 for phones
o Dynamics 365 for tablets
Adopt Native App Development Approach for different devices
Choose modern Front-end frameworks to make the solution compatible
with every device operating with any modern operating system.
Dynamics 365 Development Services
4. Dynamics 365 Custom Integration
Helped several organizations to migrate data from a particular CRM solution to Dynamics 365 CRM in a cost-effective
manner.
Incorporate the best practices and methodologies to map and move data from target CRM to Dynamics 365.
Integrates Dynamics 365 with third-party applications and ERP systems to fulfill the rising demands of businesses.
Streamline business analysis and integration for data syncing & data migration from 3rd party app
Dynamics 365 Development Services
5. Dynamics 365 Support
Technical, functional as well as production support for the
implementation of Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM.
Post-implementation support service assistance.
Assist clients in solving arising or reoccurring issues to ensure the
smooth operation of the app.
Great ROI – with Microsoft Dynamics support, managed services
offerings represent a significant saving.
In-depth assistance and consultancy across all CRM related requirements
Dynamics 365 Development Services
6. Dynamics 365 User Training
Highly experienced in designing, developing, and delivering
custom-made, client-branded, collaborative learning solutions for
any Dynamics 365.
Develop training programs for users of any module of Dynamics
365 that reflect their way of working, incorporating the individual
business processes and workflows for each role group.
Training services include:
o Training needs analysis (TNA)
o Rapid Scope® – scoping your D365 training requirements
o Development of bespoke deliverables including reference
guides, quick cards, trainer packs, and three different
eLearning options
o Assistance with Skill the Trainer and Go-Live Support
o Delivery in the form of classroom, presentation, eLearning,
and various online solutions
o Localization and translation services for global D365
rollouts
Dynamics 365 Development Services
7. PowerApps Component Framework –PCF for Dynamics 365
Enhanced user experience for the users to work with data on forms, views, and dashboards
Create code components that can be used across the full breadth of Power Apps capabilities
Utilize the reusability of the code components
Reuse these components many times across different tables
Forms which provide support of modern web practices.
Reusability, Access to a rich set of framework APIs that expose
capabilities like:
o Device features like camera, location, and microphone; and easy-to-invoke user experience elements like dialogs,
lookups, and full-page rendering.
o component lifecycle management,
o contextual data,
o Metadata Seamless server access via Web API;
o Utility and data formatting methods;
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