Customer Service Reports

Hi Gurus,
Kindly help me out in Customer Service Reports. As i am new to CS.
1.All 90 day Customer Service returns for a specific period.
2.All 90 day Customer Service Returns for a tech during a specific period.
3.All 90 day Customer Service Returns for each tech during a specific period, separated by tech.
4.All 90 Day Customer service returns by product group, model during a specific period.
5.repair Units received in a specific period
6.Backlog of each product or model
7.Number of units invoiced in a specific period
8.Number of units completed (PIOu2019d) in a specific period with a selection of
a) warranty
b) non-warranty
c) service contracts
d) JOB TYPES
e) Cal only
9.Daily Revenue Month to date by
a) LABOR
b)  PARTS
c)  FLAT RATE
d) SERVICE CONTRACTS
e)  SPARES
Entire inventory of units in Service ( REPSTAT)
Need to run reports for units coming out of warranty u2013 90 days in advance.
Repair report
Calibration due report
Invoice and IR info by model / SN
View unit tracking/units due for calibration in next 60 days
View invoiced amount per product per month
thanks
Edited by: rkravi928 on Aug 23, 2009 6:18 AM

Ravi,
It seems that you have posted your client's all report requirements in one post and expecting Functional spec for each report.
All these reports requires lot of discussion with Core teams / Technical consultant.
Eg.
>
> 8.Number of units completed (PIOu2019d) in a specific period with a selection of
> a) warranty
> b) non-warranty
> c) service contracts
> d) JOB TYPES
> e) Cal only
>
Where you maintain warranty information?
Iis there any master warranty / Measurement document involved? .. is there any extended warranties applicable for your product?
What is your reference object - Equip / Func loc etc..?
What do you mean by JOB type and where you are capturing?
... lot of queries can be raised on your requirement.
The functional consultant and the core team members of this module can only be able to answer those queries.
Better you close this thread, and start separate queries for each report with necessary information so that peers can able to suggest.
Babu

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I KNOW if this is my experience it is impossible to be an isolated incident with me alone.  If I'm tying up 5 hours on the phone, what is the next guy doing? waiting to trouble shoot his box for the next 5 hours over a downed tower. Pride is what that is. People too proud to be wrong at someone else's expense. Definitely an issue if I've paid $900 in 9 months and I spent more hours on the phone with customer service than I have online.  Pretty ******. Verizon, you ARE WRONG. Owning it would save the embarrassment of having to ***** about it on this site. I didnt' deserve my losses and it was at my expense and it is STILL at my expense that I'm having to contact that 888-294-6804 number. I've got it memorized like it was my best friends number - that's how often and how many times i've used it. Shame how simple it would be if Verizon wasn't so ******* proud and spent a few moments looking for issues on their end before stealing 5 hours from me doing the obvious over and over and over again... Small claims can be used to sue up to $3k. Looks like that's my only alternative, perhaps if I do that maybe checking for issues on their end will occur instead of pretending its impossible.  It feels like I went to mcd's and paid for a meal at the window that took 5 hours to get a bag of raw patties thrown at me from inside after sitting at the window for 5 hours and waiting. I'm wrong  of course. I'm am the customer.  How could I possibly be right? I've troubleshooted my device over 1000 times. Of course its on my end. Must be.... 1000 times isn't enough to find out there's a potential issue that isn't related to my specific device, no? Is it gonna take 1000 more hours on the phone before one of the representatives decide to look for an outage before the 5 hours of daily trouble shooting? Thats a huge red flag that just keeps getting ignored.  I can't think of any other companies besides these two internet providers that finds that acceptable.  Better Business Bureau didn't. I'll be filing that complaint with them next.  High time Verizon stepped off such a prideful pedestal and seek a remedy before a class action suit sinks them in the future from all other raging bitches not being provided with reasonable service.  It's not a rant, this has been a life shattering experience for me and a simple quick check for an issue on their end could have prevented it.  BAD BAD BAD Customer service policies to keep a customer on the phone for that length of time to repetitiously check the exact same thing repeatedly every few days.  Disgusted.  How dare that term "service" even be used if they can't provide "service" via support or otherwise.  I'm on the internet finally after 10 hours and the news reported the Verizon tower down. Not verizon... A police officer interviewed on a Detroit News station instead. God knows police have nothing better to do in Detroit than make news appearances for verizon. 

    Simple solution. Get a real internet service and not a cell phone internet connection service it was never meant to be used as the primary internet service
    And how do you lose a home and job and be sued as you claim. What over 10 Gb of data? Give me a break
    In my city small claims is $5000.00
    And over that amount you can go to a superior court to have your issue settled.
    http://www.bbb.org
    Good Luck, Elector

  • Internet Service drops for days and Useless Customer Service

    Does anyone know how to get through Verizon's shield of 'customer service' and actually get a problem resolved?  There's no means of direct access that I have found that can get past the technical support gate keepers to anyone with enough authority to think outside the script or actually look at a customers history and recognize something is wrong. 
    I have had DSL/High Speed Internet Enhanced service for 4 or 5 months now and have experienced probably 6 or 7 periods where I lose internet connectivity for about 2 to 5 days.  The first couple of times I was nieve and believed it was because I live in the boonies and there had been some (mildly) bad weather, which could have knocked out local service.  But it's been a reoccuring theme and I've discovered that the problem isn't infrastructure in the boonies, but the tie in to the internet at their central offices that is the problem.  And each time I've always had 'dsl' connecitivity, but the 'internet' LED on my modem would be off. 
    Each time I call I'm forced to go through the same routines over and over.  Here's a synopsis of how it goes (though the full routine eats up 30 minutes to an hour of time):
      * Please turn equipment on/off (never mind I've already done that, connected to the modem's management interface, looked at settings/status long before I even considered calling Verizon)
      * conveying the modem's model number (don't they have a record of this anywhere?)
      * waiting while they perform a line test
      * hearing 'there's no outage in your area, arguing that it isn't my equipment or on my end, hearing 'oh wait.... it turns out there is an outage in your area',
      * hearing 'i'll contact the mysterious outage team (that you shall never directly speak to)'  and call you back with a prognosis',
      * (optional step) Receive a call back that says 'they're working on it and it will be back online in a few days.
      * (optional step) Have it actually working in a couple of days.
    Then I'm good to go for another 2 or 3 weeks.
    On the previous round of outages I spoke to a 'supervisor', who actually called me back and let me know that he recognized this was a recurring problem and he had traced it to a router that had repeated failed.  He assured me that I would be switched to another router immediately so it would not occur again  (he actually 'promised' this won't be an issue going forward, not that I believed anything a verizon employee said to me at this point).  He also mentioned the router was going to be replaced too.  And he promised to pro-rate my bill to componsate me for all the days I didn't have service.
    Fast forward two or three weeks, and he's proven wrong.  Not only did I not get the discount in compensation for no service (not to mention rediculous amounts of time on the phone), the service was also down again.  This time they called the day after I filed my initial repair request and reported it should be working, but to call 1800 verizon if it isn't.  Since I wasn't home waiting on their call, they closed the ticket because of 'no customer response'  Of course it wasn't actually working, so i called and opened another ticket.  Now they claim it will be resolved tomorrow (about 6 days after I first called).
    Now I understand equipment fails, lines get cut, etc. and I don't expect 100% uptime.  But a nice, HONEST response explaining the situation and a recognition that a failure once or twice is fine, but 6 or 7 times is a chronic problem and should be escalated in priority would be great.  And please don't placate me by telling me you're 'very sorry for my inconvenience' and that you will 'get it resolved for me'.  I don't buy it at this point.  Verizon has lost all of my trust.  If there were a better alternative, I'd switch in a heart beat.

    So how do I get my issue escalated like everyone else?  Can any moderators hook me up? Or am I just out of luck?  
    Feel free to give me kudos so a moderator might notice this.  Thanks.

  • My experience in Toshibas product and customer services

    Just a warning to people who may be considering purchasing a Qosmio based on my own experiences and the research I have done in the last week.
    Toshibas customer service is simply not what it once was and there are 100s of reports of Qosmios of all generations suffering extreme issues just outside of warranty periods.
    Ref: Toshiba Qosmio X500-149, Support call reference ********
    I am writing to express my frustration, anger and disappointment in Toshibas product and customer services.
    I am a Freelance Community Manager, Video Game and hardware reviewer in the video games industry presently looking after 2 communities for 2 employers totalling over 2.5m users, I travel to a lot of trade shows, expos and community meet and greets where I require a laptop suitable of showing the employers products which are usually AAA video games or editing video on the fly for publication to social networking sites.
    In January of 2011 my 4 year old Alienware hit that point where it really needed replaced, I opted for a Toshiba Qosmio over the Asus G73 as there was a 300 price difference for near identical spec.
    I managed to source a X500-149 at PCWorld the companies flagship model here in the UK paying 1499 for it on January 26th 2011 reduced from 1799.
    For the 1st 13 month this laptop performed admirably aside a design issue of the fan guards that I raised on the 16th May 2011 with PCWorld where the heat expelled causes the rear guard plastics to become exceptionally brittle and crack. I evangelised the product to anyone who asked me what laptop and model it was that was running these AAA games in such great detail, something I certainly won't be doing in future.
    In early March 2012 it then began randomly locking up requiring a hard reboot this would then suffer issues restarting, reporting Operating system could not be found this would usually point to a fault on the primary HD, disk checking software however reported no errors but this continued to happen which would lead me to suspect the motherboard.
    Within a month of this problem starting the left laptop fan began making a horrible screeching noise and had a distinct wobble whenever high RPM's were required and the machine began to often go into thermal shut-down whilst performing my work duties and utilising graphics and higher than idle CPU.
    I decided on the 23rd April 2012 that enough was enough and I was going to speak to Toshiba as for this to happen to a flagship laptop that was only just out of warranty was simply unacceptable.
    23rd April called to report the issue and was basically told tough luck its out of warranty at this point I also updated my tel numbers with Toshiba as the info was outdated, after expressing my anger at this Toshiba agreed to offer me a extended warranty at a cost of 166.
    I was fuming to say the least Toshibas flagship laptop breaks at 14 month old and I am expected to stump up more money. If I was not desperate as the machine is critical to my work I would have returned the machine to PCWorld under the sales of goods act and it not being fit for purpose.
    As that course of action would likely lead to legal proceedings, engineer reports and even more delay than just dealing with Toshiba for a repair, against my better judgement I called back at 11am on 24th April paid the 166 and took Toshiba up on the warranty extension, order number ********** again having to provide correct tel numbers as where once again incorrect, immediately after I reported the faults.
    Toshiba Support centre on fault reporting where great noting each issue in detail and raised a collection with UPS for the following day.
    The evening of the 24th April whilst I was retrieving data from the laptop in preparation for factory resetting it the machine went into thermal shut-down with a very distinct smell of burning chemical/plastic coming from the rear vents.
    It took me over 90 minutes to get the machine cool enough to actually reboot and get my data after this I shut it back down and boxed it up not be used again.
    I thought the best course of action would be to report this as it was a fair step up from the previous overheating. Wednesday 25th April at around 9am I called Toshiba to report this and was advised this would have to be dealt with by a head office case manager, as the item had become hazardous thus the collection that would take the laptop to the service centre was cancelled.
    At this stage the advisor took my contact numbers again and escalated the case to head office advising at that time that I would be called by HO within 24 hrs.
    Thursday 26th April 15:31 Well past the 24 hr mark and no sign of a call so I called support again and spoke to a advisor called Jacob. Jacob advise that HO had indeed tried calling on 01670 ******* this number was my old number, this number was the number I had advised twice already was incorrect and had provided both a correct land-line and mobile number 3 times previously. To say I was annoyed was a understatement.
    Jacob attempted to contact Chloe Sontag who was looking after my case but the line just rang out so Jacob advised that he had sent an email asking for Chloe to contact myself.
    Friday came and still no contact by 15:00 so I called support who once again tried to patch me to Chloe who's number once again just rang out and again an email was sent asking to call me.
    No call by 17:30 so I called tech support again and spoke to Ian asking for head offices number so I could call them direct, Ian provided the number yet advised that HO are now closed.
    After expressing my frustration with this whole process and just how critical this machine is to my daily working life Ian promised to look into the case on Monday AM and try and expedite actually getting a phone call to at least start the process of having this laptop repaired.
    To say I'm annoyed is really a understatement not only has this failure to receive a simple phone call at least delayed the repair by almost a week but it is costing me more and money daily when I spent a large amount on what I imagined would be a great laptop for 3-4 years and believed Toshiba actually had good customer service in the event something did happen.
    My best guess is that Chloe is on holiday or is part time or such like as her phone just rings out and if that is the case then I would question why assign a case to her, if she isn't then I would want to know why after 2 additional mails advising that the customer is not happy and to contact them has there been no contact or are your case workers just so overworked with faulty products that they can't manage the workload ??
    So far Toshibas inability to produce a product that last as long as you expect it would has cost me 2 days off work that I am having to make up this weekend thus cancelling prior commitments, 166 extended warranty 600 for a HP laptop that I had to go and purchase yesterday 27th April 2012 to actually perform my work on and who knows how much in phone calls by the time this matter will finally be resolved.
    I was happy with Toshiba as a manufacturer and of course laptops can have issues however having now researched these issues far to many Qosmio X500 users report severe overheating just after the 12 month period or within it and many state that repair after repair has taken place but still to no avail, this on top of the cracking of the rear heat-sink guards has to be a design fault.
    This letter will not arrive with you before I have hopefully had a phone call and my laptop has at least been collected for repair, If I have not had that phone call then I would expect another letter very shortly.
    Why have I wrote this letter ? To express my disappointment with just how poor the durability of your flagship laptop is and also at just how poor your customer service are, 1500 is a lot of money in the PC purchasing scheme of things and to expect this quality of hardware and customer service is simply unacceptable.
    I expect the repair to be expedited and if like some of the horror storys I have read online parts required will take 4 weeks + then I would expect a replacement laptop, not everyone uses these things for entertainment and whilst the HP I had to rush out and buy with money I didn't really have available can allow me to perform my core duties to the minimum it cannot allow me to perform my duties to my standards, my employers standards or my expectant communities standards.
    This has been a really unfortunate series of events as I had been considering the X870 Ivy Bridge based on the Nvidia 670m Qosmio which would release soon and passing this X500 onto my partner but after these events and the fact that the HP laptop had to come out of the money saved for it then I can categorically state that will not be the case and I will instead opt for the Asus G55 or G75.
    If this issue cannot be resolved to a satisfactory manner then I will have no option but to seek an independent engineers report as well as printing the myriad of similar reports of these issues on the internet and return the item to PCWorld.
    In line with the sale of goods act 1979 a large electrical item has to be of satisfactory quality and fit for purpose for a period of 6 years whilst I wouldn't expect the full 6 years from a laptop I would expect at least 3-4 year especially considering that this is a near 2000 flagship model not a 200 budget model.
    This is a action I really do not want to take as it will likely end in small claims court against PCWorld a company that on this occasion has done nothing wrong, I do not believe in punishing those who are not at fault so its a action I really wouldn't be happy with and I'm sure PCWorld one of if not the largest vendor of Toshiba products when you incorporate the rest of the DSG group wouldn't be too pleased with it either.
    Frustratingly

    So I received my laptop back today after having fans replaced and a good clean as well as the top cover replaced.
    Opened the box and took the laptop out 1st thing I noticed was a screw rattling around inside, SIGH!!!!
    Plugged the laptop in and attempted to boot it at this point it just cycle through finalisation of windows install and shutdown.
    How could a laptop have been tested if it didn't even have windows installed ?
    An hour later and I gave up unplugged it and lo and behold it actually booted when on battery only.
    I then noticed that the SSD was full, oh wait no it wasn't the head office engineer in his infinite wisdom decided that partitioning a 64GB SSD to 2 drives barely even leaving enough for Windows on the C: and wait for it putting the HDD recovery on the second partition was a good course of action.
    So a completely borked install and a screw floating around inside remind me how this particular engineer has a job ??
    I spent the next 15 minutes just moving data around and creating and deleting partiitions to fix this mess up.
    Grabbed HWMonitor to check temps and at an idle 50c on CPU and 36c on GPU they didn't look too bad,
    Installed the Toshiba recommended Nvidia driver a driver I hasten to add that was released in 2010 as Toshiba have not updated the drivers for their flagship series laptop since then, They are happy to take your 1643 that the unit cost but then don't expect support for it.
    Anyway that aside I then installed 1 of the games I work on and began to run the machine through our benchmark software wooooosh the temps shot up to 90c+ on both CPU and GPU and remained at this temp for the duration of the benchmark never quite triggering thermal shutdown, I then loaded into a warzone for further testing and sure enough half way through it the machine shut down due to thermal shutdown.
    I then uninstalled the toshiba driver and tried a NVidia one sure enough as others have advised actual Nvidia drivers seem worse and thermal shutdown came so much earlier.
    I have been to PCWorld today to begin proceedings of returning outside of warranty due to not being fit for purpose or of suitable quality. This is costing me a further 60 and at least 2 weeks more without a proper machine and will likely result in me getting about 1300 back from PCWorld.
    So lets do the math on just what this will have cost me by the time its finished.
    1634 Original purchase
    166 Extended Warranty
    600 Backup Laptop whilst this was away for a month
    60 outside of warranty assessment
    50 phone calls
    I will probably receive 1300 back but then 1300 doenst buy me the spec I need for work so I will have to pull out another 300-400 for the required spec so lets add that to the original figures.
    A Toshiba Qosmio, Toshibas flagship laptop will have cost me in total 2910 almost double its actual retail price.
    I will NEVER buy a Toshiba product again and it will become my lifes mission to let everyone know just how terrible they are.

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