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You can access these product enhancements after July 25, 2024.
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Highlights
Strengthen your provider network with time-saving tools. It’s now easier than ever to track regular business reviews, discover providers that align with your goals, and adjust your rankings to maintain the right mix.
Avoid paying for landlord responsibilities. Keep track of the repairs your landlord is responsible for and automatically dispatch work orders to them.
Schedule services faster with the new Planned Maintenance module. See all your recurring services on a new dashboard and create services with fewer clicks to ensure that nothing stands in the way of your proactive facilities strategy.
Reduce downtime and revenue loss with asset condition monitoring. Automatically dispatch a provider when a connected sensor identifies a problem, and then know when the problem has been solved.
Uplevel your compliance to avoid risks. Stay compliant with evolving refrigerant emissions regulations, add compliance tracking to your maintenance program, and give technicians the information they need to get the job done safely and correctly.
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Strengthen your provider network with time-saving tools
ServiceChannel recently introduced the game-changing Framework for a Strong Provider Network based on decades of experience by leading facilities management experts. The new framework provides the industry’s first clear, strategic model to uphold your brand experience and ensure business continuity – all with the right mix of the highest quality, most cost-effective service providers in the market.
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We’re committed to delivering the tools you need so proactive provider management can become a seamless part of your organization’s standard operating procedures. Here is how we are helping you manage key actions with this release.
Action 1: Measure performance
Establish clear performance metrics and use data to objectively assess provider service quality.
Track status of provider reviews in Compliance Manager
Conducting regular business reviews is key to improving the performance and cost-effectiveness of your network. To make this part of standard operations, you can now track the status of your provider reviews in Compliance Manager.
Get started by setting the due date for each provider review. Then record your notes from each review to see trends and ensure issues are promptly addressed.
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Action 2: Identify areas to improve
Benchmark provider performance against industry standards. Provide a scorecard and feedback for improvement. Consider replacements if necessary.
Schedule reports in your Contractor Scorecard
Your scorecard, introduced last year, includes scores for speed, quality, engagement, and price. Plus, you can benchmark providers in your network against each other and the overall market.
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Note: On July 24, 2024, the original Scorecard 1.0 will be discontinued. Be sure to set up scheduled reports in the updated Scorecard to gain insights for your regularly scheduled business reviews.
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Action 3: Test new providers
Onboard new providers regularly and evaluate their initial performance to ensure they meet your organization’s standards.
See provider strengths at a glance in Provider Search
To help you choose the best provider available for your needs, you’ll now see each provider’s strengths in Provider Search results. Badges include Cost-Effectiveness, Top Quality, Top Speed, and Top Engagement for providers performing in the top 25% for the selected trade. Highlights include Trade Match, Industry Match, New Local Provider, Office Nearby, Self-Performer, Diverse Business, and Highly Responsive (fast to accept invitations).
Click on Provider Search in the navigation menu and conduct a search to see this in action.*
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Save time finding alternate providers
To save you time and keep your process on track when your invitation to a new provider is declined or expired, you will now see suggestions for similar providers on the Invitations page, in the emails notifying you of declined invites, and on the search results page.*
To see your invitations, go to menu > click Compliance (Private Network)> hover over Contractors > and click Invitations.
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Rank providers from your invitations page
Quickly rank your new providers as soon as they accept your invitation with the new Rank Provider button on the invitations page.
To get started, click on the drop-down menu > Compliance (Private Network) > hover over Contractors > Invitations > then click the Rank Provider button.
Assign new providers more quickly and easily
Easily manage your provider assignments with the Provider Assignment Waitlist. You can quickly scroll through available providers at the top of the page and assign providers or adjust your current provider assignments. To use the updated provider assignment tool:
Go to menu > Locations & Provider Assignments
Option 1: Click on Assign Providers on one of the provider cards in the Unassigned Provider Waitlist.
Option 2: Click on the + (plus sign) button to assign providers
Quickly find providers by typing their name.
Then, select the correct locations for each trade to easily switch your provider assignments.
Action 4: Expand on success
Grow relationships with high-performing providers while ensuring backups are prepared and dependable.
Rank providers by service type
When you have multiple providers assigned to a location, you can now easily keep track of their specialized responsibilities in your rankings.
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To get started, go to menu > Locations & Provider Assignments> and click on Reserved Ranks to assign service types.
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Track status of new provider reviews in Compliance Manager
Once a new provider is added to your network and demonstrates solid performance on their initial work orders, you can start tracking their reviews along with your other providers in Compliance Manager. Early and frequent reviews of new providers are important so you can:
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Get started by setting the due date for each provider review. Then record your notes from each review, informed by your Contractor Scorecard to see trends and ensure issues are promptly addressed.
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Avoid paying for landlord responsibilities
It’s important to ensure that the repairs and maintenance defined as the landlord’s responsibility in your lease get assigned to the landlord and don’t come out of your budget.
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To get started, go to the Locations & Provider Assignments page > select a location > click on the new Landlord tab. To edit landlord responsibilities, users need the Location Admin role.
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Schedule services faster with the Planned Maintenance module
From pest control to fire and life safety, an effective planned maintenance (PM) program is critical to deliver on customer expectations, so we’re making that easier than ever for you to manage.
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Contact your CSM or Support to enable the new Planned Maintenance module.
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Reduce downtime and revenue loss with asset condition monitoring
To prevent downtime, revenue loss, and disappointed customers, it is essential to understand the condition of assets in the field and to be alerted as soon as an issue arises — or even before it happens. This is especially critical for refrigerated assets in grocery and convenience stores with the risk of lost product.
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Reduce asset downtime with automation. Create work orders automatically in ServiceChannel based on your customizable rules for alarms and thresholds in Observe, so you can troubleshoot and get providers onsite faster.
Verify that equipment is operational. After an alarm in Observe automatically creates a work order in ServiceChannel, you can prevent the work order from being closed until the alarm is cleared and the asset is operational again.
Contact your CSM or AM to learn more about connecting your asset sensors to ServiceChannel.
Uplevel your compliance to avoid risks
Add compliance tracking to your planned maintenance program
Compliance is all about tracking that you’re playing by the rules. To make that easier at scale, you can now designate a planned maintenance (PM) service type as Compliance.
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To create a compliance PM service, first contact your CSM or Support to have this feature enabled. Then go to menu > click on Planned Maintenance > click on Create Service > and select Compliance from the Planned Maintenance Type menu.
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Stay compliant with changing refrigerant regulations
ServiceChannel’s refrigerant tracking solution is a critical tool for many of the largest grocers in the world, who rely on it to stay compliant with emissions regulations and their own sustainability commitments.
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If you’re interested in learning more about refrigerant tracking, connect with your AM to learn more. If you’re already a user, reach out to your CSM for more information.
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Require technicians to complete checklists before check-in
To help ensure that your technicians have the information they need to get a job done correctly and safely, you can now prevent them from checking in to a work order until they have completed the required items on a checklist.
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To create a required checklist, go to menu > Administration > Tools > Checklist > Add New Checklist > then add a question under Check-in Segment > and select Answer Required.
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More enhancements
Move assets between locations on mobile
To improve the accuracy of your asset data, authorized users can now move assets between locations using the ServiceChannel Mobile or ServiceChannel Provider apps. Using either the asset search or validation scan functions, the app will now search your entire asset register to locate the correct asset. Your authorized employees and providers can then confirm the asset location change, automatically updating your asset records and saving you time.
Connect with your CSM or AM to learn more about the Asset Validation add-on.
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Easily configure multi-level proposal approval rules
It’s now easier than ever to create and edit multi-level proposal approval rules. We’ve supplemented the template process with a new, intuitive web experience that saves you time and avoids errors when configuring levels and rules. You can continue to use the template process if preferred.
To get started, go to menu > Admin > New MLP Configurationunder Proposals. (Available after July 25, 2024.)
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Make proposal decisions with the full picture
When there are multiple proposals related to a work order, it helps to understand what actions have already been taken. Now, when taking action on a proposal, you will see a Reason column with explanations of past proposal actions. Additionally, you can now click the tracking number, which will open a tab with more detail about the associated work order. With all the relevant information at your fingertips, you can make faster, better informed decisions when authorizing new work.
To see these changes, click Approve or take another action on a proposal for a work order with multiple proposals.
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Automatically link location attachments to new work orders
You can now automatically link location attachments to work orders at the time of creation, so you don’t have to manually attach them later. This saves time and equips your providers with all of the information they need to get started immediately.
To get started, upload the desired location attachments and then add the filenames to the Attachment Name column in your issue list template.
Learn more from the experts
Learn about all the updates and best practices directly from our experts in the upcoming Product Release Webinar on 7/16/24 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET. Register now to attend live or get the recording.
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