Pan India Petrol Pump Equipment Maintenance Case Study

Field service management software – across India
A Simply C2 Case Study

75000 Petrol Pump Equipment maintenance across India

Repair, Calibration and Preventive Maintenance

Petrol pump equipment maintenance

Petrol Pump Equipment Maintenance: Background and operational challenges

Simply C2 was used to monitor Petrol Pump Equipment Maintenance operations across India.

Background: A large multinational corporation has ~ 75,000 installations of Fuel Dispensing Units in petrol stations across all major states of the country. These petrol stations are more than 40000 in number. These are run by franchisees of major oil companies in the country.

Petrol Pump Equipment Maintenance is a major revenue source. A large number of field service personnel carry out the maintenance.
Their spare parts are stored in a central warehouse.

The Petrol Pump Equipment Manufacturer has a service delivery contract with its customers and dealers. The customer contracts specify the terms of service, the entitlements, pricing of various services etc. The dealer contracts specify their rate of compensation.

Strategic objectives of customer top management for Petrol Pump Equipment Maintenance Operations

Planning Simply C2 implementation for Petrol Pump Equipment Service

Top management strategic objectives for Petrol Pump Equipment Maintenance

Asset management
Updated health status of equipment: The company wanted to be on top of the uptodate health status for every petrol pump equipment under maintenance. This included historical service record, spares used, defects and repairs etc.

Replacement analysis and planning
Customer wanted to categorize petrol pump equipment by performance based on metrics such as spare parts consumption. They wanted to forecast obsolescence.

Operations improvement
Territory management, route planning, loading: the management wanted to have the data on manpower utilization on different clusters. This was so they could tweak territory allocation at various levels.

Cost optimization:
The customer wanted insights into loaded cost metrics for different activities. This was to ensure right decisions on overall operations cost minimization.

How Simply C2 was configured for Petrol Pump Equipment Maintenance

Planning petrol pump equipment service configuration

Installed base of Petrol Pump Equipment

Warranty and AMC administration

We added all Petrol Pump equipment under maintenance contract or warranty to the Simply C2 customer database. Simply C2 allows tracking of warranty and AMC by equipment serial number. Naturally a single petrol pump site may have more than one petrol pump equipment.

Equipment locations are mapped to the “sites” – by GPS co-ordinates, useful as many of the installations are in remote locations – without a proper postal address.

Service Tickets: logging and tracking

Customer portal and mobile app

Breakdown and Preventive Maintenance tickets logging to assignment and closure. Customers could log complaints through the Simply C2 app, the call centre or a specially designed customer portal. This allowed complete visibility to the progress of the tickets.

Simply C2 auto-assigned tickets to the engineer who managed the territory.

If the assigned engineer was absent or overloaded, manager could re-assign the ticket to another engineer.

Petrol Pump Equipment Maintenance Repair estimates

Itemized parts and labour estimates

Simply C2 automatically triggered out of warranty or out of contract in which cases the service engineer would raise an itemwise repair estimate.

There could be certain cases where the equipment may be in warranty but the type of defect may not be covered under the agreement. So, in those cases, the service engineer would raise a repair estimate – after marking the ticket out of scope.

Repair would happen only if the quotation is approved.

Customizable, interactive, dashboards and reports

We customized the dashboard for specific requirements of Petrol Pump Equipment Maintenance. Other than the standard service reports, we provided custom reports for all aspects of their service operations.

We configured alerts and system notifications for the impending contract expiry. We also pushed estimates and invoices through Simply C2.

These made the system transparent and interactive.

Summary of benefits seen by customer management for Simply C2 configured for Petrol Pump Equipment Maintenance

Petrol Pump Equipment Service

Visibility in operational metrics

Operational metrics, asset health improved

Simply C2 gave them clear visibility into which equipment were prone to frequent breakdowns. Furthermore, they could access the entire service history in one glance.

Hence, it was easier to plan for overhauls and periodic services. Scheduled maintenance reduced the incidents of breakdowns. Overall spares consumption also fell steadily.

SLA compliance went up for all tickets

Instant notifications, alerts and escalations

Due to instant assignments and alerts, the technicians not only knew that they had to attend to a ticket but also some tickets were more critical than others.

Simply C2 mobile app allowed them to see the direction and distance to the site they were going to thus the technicians could plan their day better. The customer was able to compare team performances on hard metrics.

Increase in transparency and reduction in errors

Itemized repair estimates helped in instilling trust in the customer. Genuine products, agreed prices backed by company gurantee.

They also managed to keep track of which petrol pump equipment was repeatedly failing and which parts were being used most often.

Large commercial impact

Zero revenue leakage, enhanced AMC renewal

Simply C2 tracked each equipment by serial number and mapped the warranty or AMC with appropriate service delivery to it. This ensured no case of customers getting free service. All services were billed, itemwise. This enhanced end-customer confidence in the services.

Simply C2 generated reports every month on the contracts expiring every month so that our customer could send out proposals for Petrol Pump Equipment contract renewal. This helped in much higher rate of AMC renewals.

Simply C2 made it easy for Petrol Pump Equipment Service at scale

The customer made tremendous gains in operarational metrics and the top management were well on track to achieving strategic objectives.

We kept the Simply C2 core product intact and made minimum changes.

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