SAP Field Service Management vs. ServiceMax

It covers all standard functionalities one business is looking for there jobs and outages to be planned using skills , dispatching, scheduling, Time and material and activities with Smartforms along with the review processes All type of outages can be taken care in terms of predictive maintainance, preventive or emergency or onsite job repair process etc

Small deployments, where you have some specific need for ServiceMax and absolutely need offline capabilities, and are willing to deal with the problems. Otherwise, you may be better off looking at the built-in Work Orders and field service module that Salesforce is now providing. Their app is direct competition for ServiceMax and integrates much better with cases and knowledge articles.

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• In my experience, SAP Field Service Management is user friendly
• SAP Field Service Management has good integration with c4c and s4
• In my experience, SAP Field Service Management has easy configuration

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• As it's built on Salesforce, the reporting tools are fairly robust
• The service flow managers can be setup to easily lead technicians to entering data in the right place

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• In my opinion, there is room for improvement for SAP Field Service Management to be More user friendly
• I think there is room for improvement for SAP Field Service Management to be More offline

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• Dispatch console seems slow and the data is more of a pull than a push into the database.
• It seems to be a Ferrari and takes a lot of labor hours to configure.
• Still does not integrate with Apple's products very well.

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Though it is good tool but still having issues with stability and need good amount of technical support to implement

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SAP Field Service Management offers extensive functionality for managing field operations but has a moderate learning curve. Its design emphasizes capability and integration over simplicity, which can challenge new users, particularly those unfamiliar with SAP’s interface conventions.

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Support is not very good

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Engaged account management. Support is based worldwide but handoffs have not been too painful.

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Have used GCSS-Army

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ServiceMax has an offline capability, and also integrates with our Salesforce side of business. At the time, Salesforce did not have a field service application so we could not consider it, but if we could now, we would probably go with that instead. ServiceMax is also expensive. But at the time, ServiceMax was the only offering out there that integrated with Salesforce, had mobile offline capability, and could operate at the scale we needed.

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• Better usability for dispatchers and technicians
• Faster and more clear service for Customers
• Increase in revenue from Service

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• ROI for ServiceMax is mostly dependent on how in depth the organization wants the software. Our ROI is expected within the second year of operation due to the complexity of integration and the initial training requirements for in-house programmers.
• Inventory control ROI is expected within year three or four due to the number of technicians and creating the foundation of information to import into ServiceMax. Expectations are the front end programming will be complete and our programmers will be better acquainted with the modules and architecture to make the inventory integration smoother than the initial integration.
• Our organization has been working with ServiceMax for ten months and beginning to incorporate the financials to the work orders. This process has not been as seamless as once projected and the root causes are under investigation. It appears the original fields available to track time between employees were not in depth nor segregated sufficiently for granularity.

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