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EBS Oracle Service Contracts: Strategies to Increase Service Revenue
Susan FlierlProduct Strategy Director
Martyn LangleyGPO & Senior Director Business Operations
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Program Agenda
• Strategies to increase service revenue
• Oracle solutions
• Oracle Service Contracts @ Oracle
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RepeatableRepeatable
High MarginHigh Margin
DifferentiatingDifferentiating
Service contracts as an annuityLess volatile revenue stream
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Service ContractsService
Contracts
Contract base segmentation
Quote by Sales Rep500k
100kOn-line renewal
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100k
50k
On-line renewal
Evergreen
Many companies neglect their smaller
accounts
Contract Leakage Example
STRATEGIC NON-STRATEGIC
Customer Base Allocation 28.5% 71.5%
Support Revenue $85,500,000 $21,450,000
Support Revenue Allocation
80.0% 20.0%
Current Renewal Rate 92.0% 53.0%
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Current Renewal Rate 92.0% 53.0%
Percent of Revenue Lost 8.0% 47.0%
Targeted Renewal Rate 92.0% 92.0%
Net Increase in Revenue $8,365,500 7%
Oracle Service Contracts Solution
Service Provider / Product Manufacturer
Sales
Contract Mgr
T&CsT&Cs
ServiceContractsRepository R
e
CreateContract
VerifyEntitlement
DefineCoverage
Proposals, Quotes1
Products & WarrantiesService / Usage Agmts
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Bill & Invoice3
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CustomerCustomer Service
Contract Mgr
• AR, Invoicing
• OM, Quoting
• Service
• Install Base
Other
Application
Components
enew
ProvideService
Bill &Collect
IntegrationReturns, RMAs
Service Requests4
Renewal Notifications5
Uplift renewal rates
– Improved customer experience with Flexible Assignment Rules for
Customer Communication Templates and Online Acceptance Portal
Enhancements
– Faster renewal cycle times with Service Contracts Administration
Workbench
– Improved renewal rate analysis with Service Line and Covered Level Cancellation
Oracle Service ContractsR12 & R12.1 Release Overview
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Cancellation
Reduce financial risk
– Standardize customer coverage with Standard Coverage Definition
– Improve revenue recognition compliance with Partial Period Revenue Recognition and Defer Revenue for Customer Acceptance Contingencies
– Secure customer payment information with Credit Card Security
Streamline contract administration
– Provide global contract administration tools with Multi-Org Access Control
– Improved service contract visibility when managing customer’s assets
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Evergreen renewals
• Automatically renew contracts based on pre-defined rules to maximize retention rates and ensure service continuity
• Zero-touch web based process automatically renews low value contracts upon expiration
Renewal Rule Renew Contract
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500k
100k
50k
•Credit Status = OK
•Contract > ThresholdValue Value
•Expire days < 30
•Update Contract
•Notify Sales / Service Rep
•Notify Customer
On-line renewals
Notify
customer
• Quote layout determined by BI publisher templates
• On-line portal for customer to accept or request assistance
• Customer can modify payment methods on-line
•
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500k
100k
50k
Customer
acceptance
Approve &
Activate
• Service contract approval optional
Accept, reject or request assistance
Online Acceptance PortalR12 Enhancements
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View quote in pdf format
Online Acceptance PortalR12 Enhancements
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Comprehensive payment formats
Attach image of PO or check
High value renewals
Expiration
Alert
Create
Opportunity
Approve /
Activate
Sales rep
• Receives automated expiration alert
• Converts expiring contracts into sales opportunities
• Evaluate complementary products / servicesfor cross-sell & up-sell
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500k
100k
50k
Quote /
Negotiate
Customer
Acceptance
for cross-sell & up-sell opportunities
• View transaction and interaction history
• Customer acceptance: manual or on-line
R12 Service Contracts Workbench
Quick search for your new and renewal contracts
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Displays your open contracts
“We have realized significant savings with the upgrade to
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. In particular, we
streamlined our renewal process, which has increased
customer satisfaction and retention. And, we minimized costs
with an out-of-the-box deployment strategy for Oracle Service
Contracts.”
What ProQuest Is Saying
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Contracts.”
– Timothy Hall, Senior Technology Manager, Global Management Systems, ProQuest
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Program Agenda
• Strategies to increase service revenue
• Oracle solutions
• Oracle Service Contracts @ Oracle– Global Single Instance – The story so far
– Scaling Efficiently via renewal automation
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– Scaling Efficiently via renewal automation
– R12 – Transactional to Sales tool
Service Contracts @ OracleIntroductions
Martyn Langley – Senior Director & Global Process Owner Support
• Manage system footprint and roadmap for Customer Services
• System & Process requirements
• Solution review/sign off
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• Release process
• Partnering with IT
• Integrating acquisitions
• 65+ ERP instances
• 40 Data Centres
• Inconsistent business processes
• Fragmented data
• Decentralized decision making
1998
• 1 E-Business Suite instance
• 2 data centres (including backup)
• Global standard processes
• Consistent data and global business intelligence
NOW
Global Single InstanceThen and Now
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• Decentralized decision making
– Geography
– Line of business
• Consistent decision making
– Global Process Owner
– Global Application Owner
• Key enabler for acquisitions
Human Resources & Payroll
Advanced Benefits
Human Resources
Human Resources Intelligence
Payroll
Time and Labor
Global Payroll Interface
Appraisals
Talent Management
Compensation Workbench
iRecruitment
Self Service Human Resources
Financials
General Ledger
Fixed Assets
Treasury
Cash Management
Subledger Accounting
iAssets
E Business Tax
Response Capture
Procurement
iProcurement
Purchasing
Accounts Payable
Internet Expenses
Payments
Property Manager
Applications Supported by AITE-Business Suite Products Implemented
Projects
Projects
Project Resource Management
Project Management Ordering
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Self Service Human Resources
Learning Management
Project Management
Support Sales Systems
Service Contracts
Contracts Intelligence
Installed Base
Internal Support Systems
Teleservice
Knowledge Management
iSupport
Customer Support
Manufacturing & Distribution, Advanced Product Catalog and Pricing
Materials Requirement Planning
Bill of Materials
Inventory Management
Warehouse Management System
Work in Progress
Engineering
Shipping Delivery Based
Advanced Pricing
Quoting
Order Management
Contracts Core
XML Gateway
iStore
Incentive Compensation
Service Contracts@OracleImplementation at September 2010
Contracts Intelligence
Installed Base
GlobalSingleInstance
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Service Contracts
Order Management
Accounts Receivable
Siebel Territories
My Oracle Support
Service Contracts@OracleTimeline
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
US to OKS 11i (GSI)
GSI to 11.5.6
E. Europe/APAC to GSI
Online Renewals
R12 Upgrade, Siebel CRM
2010
12.1.3 upgrade
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E. Europe/ APAC to OKS 11i
W. Europe to OKS 11i
11.5.8 upgrades
W. Europe to GSI
11.5.10 upgrade
12.1.1 and 11g upgrade
Service contracts is the single application Oracle utilizes to manage it’s annuity based services business
June 2010 Oracle contract base
• > 500k contracts
• $16BN
Challenge is how to efficiently manage an ever increasing contract
Service Contracts @ OracleContract base management
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Challenge is how to efficiently manage an ever increasing contract base?
Contract base segmentationContract base management
$782 M
R12 sales features
ORACLE
Businesssegmentation
Applicationfeatures
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11,000 Customers (Includes Canada)
17,522 contracts
$138 M
Auto Reminder
Micro Renewals
Renewals automation @ Oracle
-120 days renewal event fires
Quote Sent Contract
renewed
Renewal
+15 days Contract Cancelled
-90 days Reminder 1
Automated feed to delivery system
Sales rep assigned from territory
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Customer accepts
Renewal Workflow
Start date – Final reminder and
notice to cancel
-60 days Reminder 2
-30 days Reminder 3
Customer Invoiced
400 + XMLquotes letters
FTP - Service Suspended
Micro Renewals – ‘Low touch’ processing
• Identify MR upon renewal
– Qualifying service
– Not in Customer exclusion list
– < $5k global threshold
• Contract renews and publishes online
• Customer directed to online site via email
Renewals Automation at OracleLeveraging and extending standard functionality
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• Customer directed to online site via email
• Customer can Accept / Decline / Request assistance
• Upon acceptance contract automatically approved
Fail to Pay – Suspending Service for non payment
• < $k global threshold
• Customer invoice > 90 days overdue
• FTP program suspends service in Service contracts
Contract Approvals utilizing AME
• Contract approvals ensure compliance to specified business rules
• Global team of 35 verifying submitted contracts prior to booking
• 11510: approvals assigned to country leader
• Acquisitions increasing volume of approvals– 1600+ per 24 hours
Renewals Automation at OracleLeveraging and extending standard functionality
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– 1600+ per 24 hours
• R12: use AME to route to the best approver– Value
– Region
– Service
– Approver Workload and availability
• Increased QA custom checks to 50+ assisting automation and controlling headcount costs
• Approvers log their start/end times
– Approver User Ids and group membership in custom lookups
• AME assigns approvers to contracts:
– Contract Attributes determine which AME Rule is True
– Region, Value (dollars), Service Level: e.g. EMEA 100K - 500K
R12 - Contract Approvals via AMER12 Solution
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– AME assigns approver from approval group tied to Rule
– Availability and Workload determine approver
– Dynamic group winner defined by sql statement
• June 2010 Sun IB & Service Contracts migrated into GSI
Sun to Oracle Installed Base Service Contracts Integration R12 Solution
Description Service Contracts
IB instances on Contract
IB instances off Contract
Sun Volumes 138,008 4.1M 12M
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• Utilized IB & Service Contracts 12.1.1 open APIs to load data
• 10 days to load & reconcile all data including
• IB instances
• Service Contracts
• IB configurations
Sun Volumes 138,008 4.1M 12M
R12 Service contracts - Sales Tool CapabilitiesAdministrator Workbench
HTML UI displaying consolidated view of a sales rep’s contracts
– Entry point for day to day management with personalized views to support individual territory profiles
• Manage renewals pipeline
•Mass update capabilities
•Email/print
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• Update status and forecast data
• Launch contracts to Online portal
•Email/print quote
• Enable/Disable Reminders
• Run QA Check
• Submit for Approval
R12 Service contracts - Forecasting
Bookings ForecastFull Value
Forecast = >50%
Mass update functionality has enabled Oracle to transition to automated renewals forecasting
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At-Risk ForecastFull Value
Forecast = 0%Cancellation ForecastFull Value
Forecast = 1 - 50%