Appointment Booking Project
Hera Group is one of the largest Italian multi-utility companies with 10,000 employees, operating in a variety of sectors ranging from environmental services, integrated water cycle, energy supply (electricity and gas distribution and sale, energy services), public lighting to telecommunication.
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
Considering over 4M citizens and 350 municipalities served in Italy, Hera Group represents a real giant in the Utility industry and is required to master the management and delivery of services and activities within various areas of operation, both timely and efficiently. However, performing regular inspections, maintenance, and support on so many assets located at the end clients’ premises may turn out to be challenging for Hera Group’s dispatchers. They have to punctually assign more than 100,000 work orders per year to over a thousand field technicians considering territorial division parameters, service levels agreed upon with clients, local holidays, and, finally yet importantly, clients’ availability. Therefore, Hera Group needed a single solution to be integrated with third-party systems for efficiently managing the agenda of appointments and optimizing activities on gas, water, and electricity networks.
OUR SOLUTION
Hera Group opted for the OverIT NextGen Platform, the best-of-breed FSM solution providing advanced appointments’ booking features to optimize the activity management and execution and comply with the service levels agreed upon with clients.
- Integration with third-party systems
Seamless integration with SAP Regiogroup and ECC platforms to display territorial organization, work order types to be performed, and areas of competence of technicians
- Forecasting model for appointments
Automatic and real-time generation of optimized appointments with clients according to territorial parameters, service level agreements, and local holidays
- Optimized appointment booking
Mobile management of the agenda of appointments and related single and multiple requests of intervention on water, gas, and electricity assets
- Dedicated reporting system
Display of the full list of appointments and related main information (e.g., place, address, date, time, reference to work order) on mobile
BENEFITS
Since its establishment, Hera Group has placed sustainability at the heart of its strategy, believing that economic value and sustainable development are key drivers to produce a positive impact on society and environment. Hera Group is therefore the promoter of a series of initiatives to pursue carbon neutrality by increasing energy efficiency, mitigate climate change by deploying renewable energy, and protect air, soil, and biodiversity by wisely managing water resources.
The OverIT NextGen Platform was introduced along these lines, in an effort to foster industry and infrastructure innovation, as well as safe and high-quality digitization. The final goal is to continue serving communities according to the highest standards of quality and efficiency, to create sustainable cities and make the world a better place.
OverIT NextGen Platform has also contributed to reaching Sustainable Development Goals.
