Receive Customer Inquiries and Requests for Service

You can use Service Management to determine what your service offerings will be, and manage contracts and service quotes. After these are in place, you can create service orders. Orders can be in response to customers requests, or automatically generated at set intervals for the terms of a service contract.

A service order is the record that captures all the details about a service. By using a service order, you can view the contract number, if there is one, and customer contact information. You can view the details of the service items that are part of the service in the Lines section of the Service Order window. You can also view invoicing and shipping details.

The following table describes a sequence of tasks, with links to the topics that describe them. These tasks are listed in the order in which they are generally performed.

To	See
Create a service order in response to a customer request. You can also create an order from a contract, for example, for quarterly customer service calls.	How to: Create Service Orders
Create a service quote, and then convert the quote into a service order	How to: Create Service Quotes
Assign resources, including service technicians or spare parts to an order.	How to: Allocate Resources by Using Service Orders
Verify the information in a service order.	How to: Check Service Orders Before Posting Them
Clean up the information about service orders that were posted from the Service Invoice window.	How to: Delete Invoiced Service Orders

See Also

Concepts

Service Management Setup