Service Model Foundation roles

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    Summary of Service Model Foundation roles

    The Service Model Foundation feature in ServiceNow includes a set of roles that administrators can assign to internal users. These roles enable efficient case management and project collaboration within business locations and service organizations. Understanding these roles is crucial for optimizing service delivery and ensuring effective user engagement.

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    Key Features

    • Location Agent: Handles cases for accounts and contacts within their assigned business location.
    • Location Consumer Agent: Manages cases for consumers and households in their business area.
    • Location Manager: Updates cases for accounts and consumers across their location hierarchy.
    • Location Manager Contributor: Oversees service organizations and creates cases within their service hierarchy.
    • Project Roles: Includes Project Member and Project Manager Contributor roles for viewing and managing project tasks.
    • Service Organization Project Manager: Initiates, plans, and coordinates projects, ensuring effective task management.
    • Relationship Agent: Accesses cases based solely on specific relationships with accounts and consumers.
    • Service Management Agent: Provides a service management function for business locations.
    • Location Support Agent: Resolves cases from other organizations, facilitating communication with store personnel.
    • Service Organization Contributor: Assists customers via various channels and manages cases related to their business location.

    Key Outcomes

    By assigning these roles, ServiceNow customers can improve operational efficiency, enhance customer service, and streamline project management across various business locations and service organizations. Proper role assignment ensures that users have the appropriate access and responsibilities to fulfill their tasks effectively, leading to better service execution and customer satisfaction.

    Roles that are included with the plugins that enable the Service Model Foundation feature.

    The following table describes the roles that the administrator can assign to the internal users.

    Table 1. Service Model Foundation roles
    Role Responsibility Description Contains roles
    Location agent

    [sn_customerservice.svc_location_agent]

    Location agent Create and fulfill cases for the accounts and contacts in the agent's business location.
    • sn_fsm_servicedesk_agent
    • sn_esm_location_agent
    Location consumer agent

    [sn_customerservice.svc_location_consumer_agent]

    Location consumer agent Create and fulfill cases for the consumers and households in the agent's business location.
    • sn_fsm_servicedesk_agent
    • sn_esm_location_agent
    Location manager

    [sn_customerservice.svc_location_manager]

    Location Manager Fulfiller Create and update cases for accounts, contacts, consumers, and households that work with the business locations within their location hierarchy.
    • sn_fsm_servicedesk_agent
    • sn_customerservice.svc_location_agent
    • sn_customerservice.svc_location_consumer_agent
    • email_client_quick_message_author
    • sn_templated_snip.template_snippet_writer
    • sn_shn.admin
    • approver_user
    • sn_publication.approver
    Location manager contributor

    [sn_customerservice.svc_location_manager_contributor]

    Location Manager Contributor

    Manage service organizations and create cases for accounts, households, or consumers at the service organization or any of its child service organizations.

    • sn_customerservice.service_organization_contributor
    • sn_customerservice.svc_location_manager_core
    • sn_customerservice.consumer_contributor
    • sn_customerservice.account_contributor

    Location Project Member

    [sn_bus_loc.location_project_stakeholder]

    None

    Views project details and project tasks of their respective business location.

    Marks customer visible project tasks as complete.

    None

    Location Project Manager Contributor

    [sn_bus_loc.location_manager_project_stakeholder]

    None

    Views project details and project tasks of their respective business location and child business locations.

    Marks customer visible project tasks as complete.

    None

    EBL Viewer

    [sn_bus_loc.ebl_viewer]

    None Views all external business location details and location staff None
    IBL viewer

    [sn_bus_loc.ibl_viewer]

    None Views all internal business location details and location staff. None
    Service Organization Project Manager

    [sn_service_org.project_manager]

    None This role can perform the following actions:
    • Project initiation: Creates and launches projects
      Note:
      Service Organization project manager and customer project manager can access all project modules.
    • Project planning: Develops project plans, such as, task assignments and resource allocation.
      Note:
      On task assignment, an automated mail is generated. Update "Send Email to Contact when Customer Project Task is assigned" flow to disable or enable notifications.
    • Task management: Monitors and manages task dependencies and execution.
    • Coordination: Views and collaborates with location staff, assigning, and tracking tasks of their respective location.
    • sn_bus_loc.ibl_viewer
    • sn_bus_loc.ebl_viewer
    Relationship agent

    [sn_customerservice.relationship_agent]

    None This role restricts an agent's access to only those cases for the accounts, contacts, consumers, and households that they have a relationship with.
    This role includes the following relationships that are provided with the Service Model Foundation plugins:
    • Account Manager: Creates a relationship between an internal user and an account.
    • Relationship Manager: Creates a relationship between an internal user and a consumer or a household.
    • agent_workspace_user
    • snc_internal
    • sn_shn.editor
    • email_composer
    • sn_fsm_servicedesk_agent
    • sn_customerservice.csm_workspace_user
    • sn_templated_snip.template_snippet_reader
    Service Management agent

    [sn_esm_location_agent]

    None A service management agent role for a business location
    • sn_lookup_verify_user
    • assignment_workbench
    • knowledge
    • agent_workspace_user
    • chat_admin
    • cmdb_read
    • agent_schedule_user
    • interaction_agent
    • sn_templated_snip.template_snippet_reader
    • sn_shn.editor
    • template_editor
    • email_composer
    • template_editor_global
    Location Support agent

    [sn_bus_loc.svc_location_support_agent]

    Location Support Agent

    This role resolves the cases originated from other business organizations, ensuring access to required information and other details, and facilitating efficient coordination with store personnel

    sn_esm_location_agent
    Service organization contributor

    [sn_customerservice.service_organization_contributor]

    Location Contributor This user:
    • works with accounts and contacts, consumers, and households
    • uses the Customer or Consumer Service Portal to assist customers
    • search knowledge articles and catalog items.
    • create cases on behalf of their business location, including cases for catalog items (requests), and follow up on those cases.
    • create cases from communication channels available to customers including phone, web, chat, Virtual Agent, and messaging.
    • view and follow up on other cases created for the user's business location.
    If also an internal user on a case, this user can:
    • add additional comments and attachments
    • accept or reject a solution
    • close a case
    • receive notifications of case updates
    • read work notes
    • sn_customerservice.case_contributor_creator
    • sn_service_org.service_criteria_read
    • sn_service_org.customer_criteria_read