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End-to-end Field Service ManagementBuilding end-to-end field service management solutions around your unique business processes

Customer Self-Service

Service Desk Software

Workforce Scheduling

Mobile Field Service Apps

mplsystems understands that the key objective for any service management organisation is to offer clients excellent and responsive service, whilst managing the cost and efficiency of their team. However, too often businesses invest in overly complex field service management systems that hinder team performance rather than optimise it, resulting in employees returning to high levels of manual processes and dramatically affecting the level of service delivered.

In contrast, mplsystems’ unique modular approach enables us to build cost-effective service management solutions around each organisations individual processes and requirements, whether they have 10 or 1,000 field based workers. The solution encompasses everything from customer self-service, service desk and workforce scheduling to the mobile apps for field based teams, and integrates with all existing systems across the business to create a seamless flow of information. The result is a completely integrated end-to-end solution which can transform service delivery by automating manual processes, improve customer experience and provide analytical insight across a business’s operations.

Due to the unique capabilities of our solution, some of the world’s leading organisations including Cofely, Balfour Beatty Workplace and Metric Group have transformed the way they work achieving up to 76% reduction in on-going IT costs, saving over 2,000 hours of maintenance time and improving first time fix rate by 20% through a more efficient and streamlined way of working.

Every business has its individual business processes and specific priorities, so why accept one size fits all systems?

mplsystems end-to-end service management solutions


Contracts, Sales & Invoicing


Multi-Channel Contact Centre



Parts and Stock Management

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mplsystems hosted web portals and mobile apps provides a simple, flexible way for clients to update and log new requests or to check current issues and job progress at a time that suits them without the need for human interaction. These self-service solutions are customisable to suit specific business requirements and fully integrated into the end-to-end service management process.


mplsystems offer a truly unique scheduling and route optimisation solution, encompassing 3 visual representations of jobs and engineers: a live map showing all engineers locations, a full list of job requests and a comprehensive view of the engineering team’s diaries. This allows customer requests to be automatically scheduled based on location, skills, technician workload or other business priorities. Additionally jobs can be dynamically assigned or priorities changed by simple drag and drop functionality and filtering of activities.


mplsystems offer an extensive multi-channel customer care and case management solution which brings together voice, email, chat, SMS and social media and provides CRM customer service capability. This solution integrates with back office systems, providing the service desk with a complete view of customer’s cases and jobs, along with all associated emails, contact history and back office data such as orders, parts and stock levels and images.


mplsystems mobile field service apps are available for all the leading smartphone and tablet platforms, including iOS, Android and Windows and provide two-way communications between the service desk and field worker. Each app is designed around a business’s specific needs and can extend beyond the basic push of job requests and can incorporate additional features such as quoting tools, parts ordering, boot stock and invoicing to increase the productivity of the engineer.

Technology overview

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With the growing popularity of smart phones, customers expect to have immediate visibility and control when interacting with a business.

mplsystems’ online portals and mobile apps offer this control by providing customers with a simple and flexible way to create, change or cancel job requests, at a time that suits them, without the need to call the service desk. As the online portals are completely integrated into the end-to-end service management process, the customer is able to view and amend all relevant account information, outstanding job requests and job status’ which is fed back to the service desk. The online portals feed information straight to the engineer’s mobile devices, reducing workload on the service desk and creating real-time updates for the engineers.

Integrating a client mobile app in to the existing business technology can be relatively straight forward and cost-effective. mplsystems apps are designed to allow customers to view and update all information including account details, problem reporting, billing and other areas that are crucial to your business.

The app allows the customer to make appointments at a time that suits them, eliminating the restrictions of the service desk opening times. Call back capability can be included allowing the customer to contact your service desk without having to wait on hold. Once their enquiry reaches the front of the queue, the service desk team will call them back.

+ 24/7 access for customers to make, amend or cancel service requests

+ Alleviate high volumes of requests going through the service desk

+ Easily customisable to fit specific and changing business processes

+ Completely integrated to support end-to-end service delivery

Key Benefits

The customer’s ability to easily arrange service calls or get status updates with a company is an important element of how a service organisation is viewed by its customers.



Ecomaster are the UK’s leading furniture repair and restoration company and works in partnership with many of the leading furniture manufacturers and retailers.

After a period of steady growth, the business realised that they were rapidly outgrowing their existing processes and technology.

Ecomaster therefore embarked on the expertise of mplsystems, who introduced a complete end-to-end solution which included an advanced self-service portal.

“Since implementing the solution we have not only seen a significant

improvement in operational efficiency but also customer satisfaction as

a result of providing our customers with greater visibility and access with

the self-service platform. We are now exceeding expectations in meeting

customer SLAs which is helping us drive the business forward in line with our

ambitious growth plans.”

The customer self-service portal has significantly improved customer satisfaction by providing them with greater access and visibility of the service delivery process.

Customers are able to access the portal and log, amend or cancel a job themselves with full visibility of the team of 56 engineers’ location and availability. The portal also provides customers with access to a visual reporting dashboard which provides in-depth analysis of each job case and access to full job history details.


+ Create a single view of the customer and job requests

+ Reduction in on-going IT costs by integrating all systems in to one simple user interface

+ Increase agent efficiency through simplifying processes

+ Reduce call handling time on the service desk

Key Benefits

The service desk acts as the glue between the customers and the field service operatives and as such have to not only deal with high volumes of incoming customer enquiries from multiple service channels, they then have to convey the right information, to the right engineer at the right time to complete the job successfully.

Service Desk

However, the reality is that most service desks waste time searching for the relevant emails, orders, plans or parts.

mplsystems blend all calls, email and SMS together with case management and CRM on to a single desktop view. The result is that if a customer calls in regarding a specific case, the agent screen is immediately populated with everything regarding that case and customer, including calls, emails, visit reports, plans and other relevant files. This complete customer care solution integrates with all key back office systems, helping streamline the customer experience by providing the service team with a single customer view of communications, jobs, assets and parts on an intuitive user interface. This allows the service desk to seamlessly manage all customer interactions whilst the system automatically pushes updates and notifications to the engineer’s mobile devices.

The combination of our award winning contact centre technology, alongside our service management solution offering, makes mplsystems one of the only providers able to offer a complete end-to-end solution for service delivery.


“Working with a single agent desktop has helped to improve all aspects of our

operational performance. We’ve seen a step change in performance improvement –

not only encouraging effortless conversations with our customers but also ensuring

that we can keep on increasing our service agility. Applying the functionality of the

mplsystems desktop to our streamlined processes is making a real difference – we’re

becoming much more efficient at allocating jobs, we’re completing those tasks

quicker, and our front-end staff are much more knowledgeable. We’re also starting to

see some real KPI improvements.”

Lee Dobbins, General Manager

Cofely was keen to identify a solution that could offer a dedicated contact handling and CRM system tailored to their needs, as they found off the shelf solutions couldn’t fit their bespoke requirements.

mplsystems designed and implemented a highly flexible service desk solution that brings together the various business systems and customer data in to a simple and easy-to-use solution for all interaction handling. When a client calls the operations centre, the agent screen is populated with relevant case history, recommended process steps, any SLA details, and status of all jobs associated with that

contract. The agent does not need to access different applications during the course of the call and can quickly transfer the job through to planners for service scheduling.

Adopting an integrated service desk solution has enabled Cofely to improve their response rates by 18% and planned maintenance performance SLAs by 28%. This has enabled the business to achieve £515k cost savings in just nine months through efficiency savings and penalty reductions – already helping to deliver a clear return on investment.


+ One single, simplified view of the entire service delivery team and schedule

+ A live map of engineering teams location

+ Functionality to drag and drop jobs on to the engineers calendar for reactive jobs

+ Reduce service desk workload by automatically scheduling service requests

Key Benefits


To meet the challenge mplsystems field service solutions provide a next gen scheduling and route optimisation solution which combines automated scheduling with dynamic assignment for managing in day changings and unexpected events. The solution provides a flexible three screen representation of service delivery that enables schedule optimisation:

1. Dynamic map view that streamlines the scheduling and allocation of tasks 2. Field service engineer’s calendar view showing all jobs and locations 3. A complete list of jobs that can be filtered using a range of parameters

These three views can be toggled separately or displayed concurrently on a single screen. When the service desk receives a call, help-desk staff simply drag and drop the task onto the appropriate field engineer’s schedule. This action updates diaries and transfers all relevant task information to the engineer’s mobile Android, iOS or Windows Mobile device.

This real-time geographic scheduling allows routine decisions to be made automatically, whilst providing a simple drag drop alternative for the service team to manage exceptions and make reactive decisions. Advanced route optimisation algorithms ensure that the system reacts to live feeds from traffic, events and smart IOT sensors.

Optimising the Field Workforce is an increasing challenge: as customers are demanding more flexibility in the scheduling of their appointments, businesses are juggling these requirements with ongoing pressure to improve the efficiency of their diversely skilled workforce.


The Statutory Support Services Group is a national provider of specialist building maintenance services and rely on a 24 hour 365 day manned helpdesk to manage and efficiently balance the provision of pre-planned maintenance and reactive jobs.

After experiencing steady growth the business was finding their current scheduling system was both over-complex and didn’t have the degree of flexibility they needed and therefore embarked on a project with mplsystems to implement a true end-to-end service management solution.

“We previously worked with a legacy Maximo scheduling system that proved

both over-complex and inflexible, so we were keen to move towards a more

comprehensive, end-to-end service management solution that would allow

us to deliver more dynamic and efficient scheduling, especially for reactive

job requests,” comments Adam Clarke, Managing Director at Statutory Support

Services UK. “We looked at a number of alternatives, but only mplsystems –

with its cloud-based solution – could give us the end-to-end solution and the

visibility we needed across our entire maintenance services operation.”

mplsystems solution allowed SSS UK to deliver more dynamic and efficient scheduling and better manage the mix between planned and reactive jobs. The scheduling system automatically pushes job requests to the engineers’ mobile devices whilst providing a real-time view of all current maintenance activities across the organisation to give the service desk full visibility in order to update the customers.

After implementing an end-to-end service management solution SSS UK have experienced a 76% reduction in on-going technology costs and a further 66% reduction in software license costs. With their dynamic scheduling technology the business has achieved over 2000 hours saved in maintenance times and improved the efficiency of the service desk by 14%.


Huge investment can be made in CRM, the contact centre and the customer service function but, as 80% of contact is between the field worker and the customer and only 20% with the contact centre, it’s clear that getting the mobile worker solution right is a key part of an end-to-end solution.

mplsystems’ mobile field service apps link the mobile field worker directly to the contact centre. Whether they are engineers, sales people, cleaners or other service personnel these customised apps are unique amongst other field workforce solutions in their ability to connect those field staff directly to the customer service agent’s desktop, not just into CRM or ERP systems.

mplsystems mobile apps extend far beyond basic job notification technology and can equip field based teams with additional features. This can include quoting tools, parts ordering and invoicing, rota management, boot stock trading and satisfaction and are available for all the leading smartphone and tablet platforms, including iOS, Android and Windows devices. Every mobile app is different, when specifying an app we understand each businesses requirements for data, process and communications and build a solution around these requirements.

+ Manage field workforce more effectively with complete visibility of location

+ Direct connection to contact centre for consistent customer relationship

+ Access via practical hand-held devices

+ Customer information available from anywhere

+ Operates without network coverage in off line mode by utilising local database

Key Benefits

The principal reason organisations fail to deliver customer service is the lack of real time communications with their field-based workforce.



Metric Group is a leading provider of car park payment terminals and ticketing solutions, and is committed to providing its customers with the highest levels of service and support, however the business was determined to improve the quality of the processes and information that could help its support teams perform more effectively.

As part of the end-to-end service management solution, mplsystems designed specialist mobile apps that uses the power of smartphone technology to synchronise data, automate business processes and enable more accurate monitoring and reporting between the mobile field workforce and both front and back- office operations. The mobile app directly addresses the lack of real time communications that most organisations have with their field-based operations. The latest mobile technology ensures accurate and up-to-the-minute information, helps minimise response times, and always ensures that field engineers are connected with key back-office systems such as ERP, stock control and parts ordering.

For Metric Group, working with mplsystems has meant that they have been able to gain greater control over their field service operations and improve team productivity by 15%. The mobile apps have had a huge impact on the field based teams and have helped achieved a further 15% improvement in response times.

With the end-to-end field service management implementation we’ve

effectively created a single view of all our engineering resources. This means

we can see all of our current customer requirements, use geolocation

techniques to know exactly where our engineers are and understand our

exact parts requirements. This provides us with all the information we need to

optimize our schedules more effectively.


For more information, or to book a demo please visit:

www.mplsystems.co.uk

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