Manufacturing Commercial Operations release notes
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Summary of Manufacturing Commercial Operations release notes - Zurich Release
The ServiceNow Manufacturing Commercial Operations (MCO) application introduced in the Zurich release empowers manufacturers, agents, and dealers (both internal and channel partners) to connect, track services, and manage recall and sales promotion campaigns efficiently. This new application streamlines collaboration between manufacturers and dealers by enabling the creation and management of recall campaigns, repair claims, sales promotions, and quality investigations.
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Key Features
- Recall Campaign Management: Create recall campaigns with phases and sub-phases, launch them for targeted assets, and notify dealers to manage and resolve claims collaboratively.
- Repair Claims: Dealers can submit reimbursement claims for repairs performed under warranty, streamlining the claims process.
- Sales Promotion Claims: Manage sales promotion campaigns and enable dealers to raise related claims effectively.
- Pre-authorization Requests: Dealers can request pre-authorization to confirm warranty or service contract coverage for parts, labor fees, or repairs.
- Quality Issue Management: The MCO agents portal supports identification, tracking, and resolution of product quality issues through their entire lifecycle, including non-conformance and quality investigations.
- Dealer Portal: Provides real-time insights and day-to-day management tools to dealers and agents for efficient operations.
- New UI Enhancements: The Coral theme is now the default, offering a modern, brand-neutral interface with an optional dark theme for better readability and reduced eye strain.
- Integration and Plugins: The MCO plugin simplifies installation and dependencies for the Manufacturing Commercial Operations and related modules.
Activation and Browser Support
The Manufacturing Commercial Operations application is available via the ServiceNow Store and requires installation request through the store. It supports modern browsers such as Microsoft Edge (Chromium) and excludes Internet Explorer and legacy Microsoft Edge. The application supports ServiceNow workspace on supported browsers but not on mobile devices.
Related ServiceNow Applications
- Order Management: Enhances lead-to-cash cycles within Manufacturing Commercial Operations.
- Product Catalog Management: Manages commercial and technical product catalogs.
- Pricing Management: Controls product pricing settings.
- Customer Service Management: Provides support and service capabilities for external customers.
- Field Service Management: Manages work orders, resources, and assets efficiently.
- Service Exchange: Facilitates seamless collaboration across multiple ServiceNow instances within the ecosystem.
- Strategic Portfolio Management: Aligns work with business strategy to drive value through digital transformation.
Additional AI Capabilities
The new ServiceNow Otto for Manufacturing Commercial Operations application, also introduced in the Zurich release, brings platform AI capabilities to enhance MCO’s functionality, helping customers leverage AI-driven insights and automation.
The ServiceNow® Manufacturing Commercial Operations application enables manufacturers, agents, and Dealers (internal and channel partners) to connect and track services and manage recall and sales promotion campaigns. Manufacturing Commercial Operations is a new application in the Zurich release.
Manufacturing Commercial Operations highlights for the Zurich release
- Create recall campaigns and claims to manage recall campaigns and streamline collaboration with dealers to resolve claims.
- Create repair claims to streamline collaboration with dealers to submit and resolve claims for repairs performed under warranty.
- Create sales promotions and claims to manage sales promotion campaigns and to streamline collaboration with dealers to resolve claims.
- Create phases and sub phases in the recall campaign to enable the manager to launch it for selected assets, and notify the targeted dealers.
- Submit pre-authorization requests to confirm whether certain parts, fees, or repairs are covered under a warranty or service contract.
- Create non-conformance (NC) and quality investigation (QI) cases to capture quality problems, coordinate investigations, and collaborate with stakeholders throughout resolution.
See Explore Manufacturing Commercial Operations for more information.
New in the Zurich release
- Quality issue management
- The MCO agents portal enables the manufacturers to identify, manage, and resolve product quality issues throughout the entire life cycle, from initial detection through remediation and closure.
- Data model
- The quality issue management data model facilitates the OEMs to understand the quality issue management tables and their functions.
- Phases and Sub-phases
- The MCO agents portal enables the manufacturers to create phases and sub-phases within a recall campaign and launch it for selected assets, and notify the targeted dealers.
- Pre-authorization request
- The dealer portal enables the dealer to initiate the pre-authorization request to confirm whether certain parts, labor fees, or repairs are covered under a warranty or service contract.
- Recall campaign
- The dealer portal enables the dealer to initiate reimbursement claim requests from the OEM for the work performed on the recalled products.
- Repair claims
- The dealer portal enables the dealer to raise a reimbursement claim request for the repair of an equipment or product that is under a warranty contract.
- Sales promotion
- The dealer portal enables the dealers to raise post sales promotion claims from the OEM depending on the claim case.
- Dealer portal
- The dealer portal helps the agent to manage the day-to-day business activities and monitor the real-time data insight.
- Plugins installed with MCO
- The new MCO plugin enables you to install the Manufacturing Commercial Operations and other dependent modules.
UI changes
- Coral theme
- Coral is now the default theme for new portal, web, and mobile experiences with Next Experience or Core UI enabled. This theme provides a fresh look and feel, featuring brand-neutral illustrations to enhance your user experience. A dark theme option is available for web and mobile experiences.
Activation information
Install Manufacturing Commercial Operations by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store.
Visit the ServiceNow Store website to view all the available apps and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the ServiceNow Store version history release notes.
Browser requirements
ServiceNow workspace doesn’t support mobile devices, Internet Explorer, or Microsoft Edge. Instead, use Microsoft Edge - Chromium or one of the other supported browsers listed in Browser support.
Accessibility information
- Dark theme
- The new Coral theme includes a dark theme option for web and mobile experiences. This option is commonly used to alleviate eye strain and improve readability.