Workforce Optimization for Field Service
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- UpdatedJan 30, 2025
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- Yokohama
- Field Service Management
Manage and maintain the productivity of your workforce from a single location using Workforce Optimization for Field Service. Using this application, you can efficiently route work to your team, manage your team's skills and schedules, and monitor their performance.
Use Workforce Optimization for Field Service to optimize your workforce and manage your teams efficiently. This feature also enables you to coach your teams so that they gain the skills that let you address the demands from your customers.
Workforce Optimization for Field Service introduces Manager Workspace, which provides a real-time overview of the ongoing workload and the team performance. It also help managers to manage the schedules and shifts of their agents. Administrators can configure and customize the workspace using the application capabilities to complete the service objectives efficiently. For more information, see Workforce Optimization for Field Service Manager Workspace dashboard.

Key Features
- Scheduling
- Manage the scheduling for your agents from Manager Workspace. You can access your team's calendar to view the agent's schedule for coverage and their time-off. This information can help you create shift plans and schedule plans, assign agents to shifts, and publish schedules. You can also create personal events such appointments and meetings on behalf of the agent using calendar.
- Team performance
- Organize each of your teams into assignment groups and monitor their performance from Manager Workspace. Create a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that references Performance Analytics indicators and apply them to all groups within that team to analyze the team performance. From a central location, you can drill into the metrics for a group, an agent, or a work order task within that team.
- Automating employee coaching and training
- Assess your team's performance and set coaching plans to improve their skills. Use Predictive Intelligence to recommend skills based on tasks the agents have resolved. Create coaching opportunities based on the recommendation and train the agents to acquire those skills by assigning the learning content, such as internal knowledge articles and external courses from Udemy.
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- Configuring Workforce Optimization for Field Service
Enable Workforce Optimization for Field Service and configure settings to use the Scheduling, Teams, and Coaching applications.
- Workforce Optimization for Field Service components
Several types of components are installed with activation of the Workforce Optimization for Field Service (com.snc.app_fsm_wfo) plugin, including user roles, key performance indicators (KPIs), scheduled jobs, properties, and tables.
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