Telecommunications and Utilities
An intelligent planning system should bring the right service technician to the right place at the right time. At the same time, overall costs, driving distances and the overall time spent have to be minimised, capacities have to be used in an optimal way, efficiency and customer satisfaction have to be increased.
Planning and illustration of complex contexts
The telecommunication and public utilities sectors provide public infrastructure networks. The operation of a phone, electricity, gas or water network is subject to strict regulations and controls – and complex order contexts have to be illustrated. In addition to common customer service functionalities, optimal appointment- and round-scheduling therefore also have to fulfill technical and legal requirements.
Individual definition of specific job types
Visitour Service allows you to individually define and illustrate the specific job types in the telecommunication and public utilities sectors – depending on required staff skills and pre-defined job priorities. Of course, project management and multiple scheduling as well as the illustration of relations between subsequent jobs are all important parts of this service. It is also easy to consider the service technicians’ capacity planning, on-call and emergency services and the provision of spare parts.
Variable and automated job processing
The VisiTour Service Software is mostly automated. Service orders which are generated through a trouble ticket system and are accepted in a call center can be scheduled just as well as maintenance orders for your own network. It is also very easy to combine predictable and unpredictable tasks, such as repair and maintenance jobs with failures that have to be dealt with in the short term.
Dynamic workforce scheduling
The unique FLS PowerOpt algorithm allows dynamic and very efficient real-time workforce scheduling and optimisation of mobile service technicians. Since the high-performance and high-capacity planning is based on maps at house number-level, it is possible to make a realistic staff plan.
User-friendly staff plan
VisiTour Service provides the scheduler with a very user-friendly and clear staff plan of all service technicians and jobs – consisting of Gantt diagram and map. In addition, the integrated escalation management helps the scheduler during resource managing to react to unexpected failures and capacity bottlenecks.
Mobile Workforce Management
To facilitate mobile workforce management, the VisiTour Service route server communicates with mobile end-user devices such as laptops, PDAs, navigation devices or mobile phones. The mobile service staff always receives the most optimal job with the necessary information. In return, it is possible to send status reports at the completion, delay or change of a job – for dynamic optimisation in real-time.
