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Congratulations! You should now be live on ServiceChannel!

But this is not the end of the road…in fact, this is just the beginning of the journey. Here are some tips to help you get started:

WEEK OF
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Work Order Management

  • Check your open WOs to make sure they are being routed to the right providers or internal teams

  • Check your Actionable Landing Page daily to keep an eye on work orders, proposals, and invoices that need your attention

  • Hear feedback from your locations and FM team for any gaps

  • Reach out to ServiceChannel for help.

    • Set up the following work order filters to help you ensure work orders do not fall through the cracks

      • Filter to see work orders assigned to your Internal FM Team to see work orders that are assigned internally, so you can route them to external providers in a timely fashion

      • Filter to see your emergency work orders to ensure they are being handled by providers expeditiously

      • Filter to see your top 3 trades to ensure they are assigned to providers

    Providers

    • Check Compliance Manager to make sure your trusted Providers are in your Network

      • Reach out to them personally if they have not finished their compliance

      • Make sure they are scheduled for free ServiceChannel training. Providers are notified of classes every day for 30 days, and we run 2-3 sessions per day

    • Check your Provider Assignments to make sure all of your trades have Providers assigned to them

      • If you do not have a Provider to assign to a Trade, route your work orders to your Internal FM Team

      • If you don’t see a provider in the list, check your Compliance Manager > Invitations to make sure they are accepted into your private network

      • Ensure that you have backup providers for each trade in case you need to reassign work orders

    Planned Maintenance

    • (If PM schedules were set up during implementations): Ensure schedules are set up correctly and that providers are mapped to PM Schedules, keeping note of those scheduled to run within the first month of using ServiceChannel

    • (If PM schedules are not set up): Have a plan to set up HVAC, Fire/Life Safety, Janitorial, and Window Cleaning schedules, within the next 3 months

    Admin

    • Confirm all users have their login credentials and are set up with the correct permissions

    Technology

    • (For teams who allow mobile apps in locations): Ensure your location users, location managers, and facilities teams have ServiceChannel Mobile downloaded and loaded onto mobile devices

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    • Make sure your locations, district/regional managers, facility teams, and other stakeholders have communications around using ServiceChannel

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    Work Order Management

    • Review your work order filters that were set up earlier, to make sure work orders are assigned out and providers are confirming their ETAs.

    • Check all other open WOs to make sure they are being routed to the right providers or internal teams

    • Check

    work orders submitted by your location users to ensure they
    • your Actionable Landing Page daily to keep an eye on work orders, proposals, and invoices that need your attention

    • Check work orders in the “Completed/Confirmed” status to ensure location users are leaving feedback on completed work orders

    (work orders in the “Pending Confirmation” status)

    Providers

    • Check Compliance Manager for any straggling Providers. Reach out to them personally if they have not finished their compliance

      • Make sure they are scheduled for free ServiceChannel training. Providers are notified of classes every day for 30 days, and we run 2-3 sessions per day

    • Check your Providers under Admin > Providers to monitor when they have completed training via the “Last Training Date” column

    Planned Maintenance

    • Review all PM work orders that have been sent to Providers, to ensure they arrive during the service window

    Proposals

    • Check whether providers are entering proposals to raise NTE amounts, and approve where necessary to automatically raise the NTE on associated work orders

    Invoices

    • Check your invoice activity from external Providers

    Admin

    • Hear feedback from your locations and FM team for any gaps

    • Give access to new users or adjust access for current users

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    Analytics

    Work Orders

    • Continue looking at your work orders to ensure providers are servicing your locations

    • Check work orders that were invoiced and your accounting / payment workflows

    • Review your work order filters that were set up earlier, to make sure work orders are assigned out and providers are confirming their ETAs.

    1 MONTH AFTER GO LIVE

    Start looking at your Analytics Insites report to see your R&M spend
    • Check all other open WOs to make sure they are being routed to the right providers or internal teams

    • Check your Actionable Landing Page daily to keep an eye on work orders, proposals, and invoices that need your attention

    • Check work orders in the “Completed/Confirmed” status to ensure location users are leaving feedback on completed work orders, and that the status is not automatically moving to Completed/Confirmed due to inactivity

    Proposals

    • Check whether providers are entering proposals to raise NTE amounts, and approve where necessary to automatically raise the NTE on associated work orders

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    Work Orders / Planned Maintenance / Proposals / Invoices

    • Continue monitoring as necessary

    • Keep an eye on feedback from location users, scheduled arrivals from providers, NTE raises via proposals, work order activity, invoices coming from proposals, and your analytics reports

    Analytics:

    • Review all Insite Dashboard for work order and invoice activity, committed spend, location activity, and provider satisfaction

    • Start looking at NTE Optimization, PM Upcoming Work Orders, Facilities Cost Report, and Contractor Scorecard.