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Service DeskThornbury Refrigeration & Air Conditioning

Sample data

Service contracts

Which deadlines come from which contract, and which service is due next.

Live contracts

Response time is the deadline for the first reply; time to fix is the deadline for a working unit.

ContractCustomerTierResponse timeTime to fixUnitsService dueStage
SV-0142CustomerHartley food market (4 branches)TierFull maintenanceResponse time4 hours, round the clockTime to fix24 hoursUnits17Service due15 AugStageDate booked
SV-0188CustomerWoodside Hotel, SavannahTierInspection onlyResponse time16 hours, business daysTime to fix3 business daysUnits6Service due2 SepStageDeadline missed
SV-0207CustomerFenwick building supply, Union CityTierBreakdown coverResponse time8 hours, business daysTime to fix5 business daysUnits4Service due28 AugStageInvitation not sent
SV-0311CustomerKeeling meats, BrownsvilleTierFull maintenanceResponse time6 hours, round the clockTime to fix24 hoursUnits5Service due4 SepStageCustomer has a preferred date
SV-0345CustomerGreaves bakery, LexingtonTierInspection onlyResponse time24 hours, business daysTime to fix5 business daysUnits8Service due19 AugStageDate booked
SV-0402CustomerCity of Jackson officesTierBreakdown coverResponse time8 hours, business daysTime to fix5 business daysUnits3Service due11 SepStageRenewal undecided
SV-0417CustomerRose Lane nursing home, LexingtonTierFull maintenanceResponse time4 hours, round the clockTime to fix12 hoursUnits9Service due26 AugStageDate booked

7 of 34 live contracts. Shown here are the contracts with a service falling due this quarter.

Deadlines in the next four weeks

Services, notice periods and statutory checks taken from the contracts.

  • Service SV-0345 — Greaves bakery

    due 19 Aug · 8 units · Aydin

    Two display cabinets have been replaced since the last visit. The scope has to be adjusted before the engineer sets off.

    date booked

  • Notice period SV-0402 — City of Jackson offices

    expires 31 Aug · 12-month term

    Without notice the contract renews for another year. After the ST-2409 escalation the customer has asked for a meeting.

    undecided

  • Leak check SV-0142 — Hartley food market

    due by 31 Aug · 3 units above the leak-check threshold

    The check is required by law and will be done alongside the service on 15 Aug. The certificate goes to the customer.

    scheduled

  • Service SV-0417 — Rose Lane nursing home

    due 26 Aug · 9 units · no engineer yet

    The kitchen is only accessible between 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM. Two engineers are needed or the window is too short.

    planning open

  • Price adjustment SV-0207 — Fenwick building supply

    effective 1 Oct · notice required by 31 Aug

    The adjustment is written into the contract and has to be announced to the customer in writing. The draft is with service management.

    letter pending

Site visits this month by contract tier

Counts completed visits with a filed job report, as of 14 Aug.

Full maintenance
34
Inspection only
18
Breakdown cover
11
No contract
7
The project frame

How Awelior would approach this project

Thornbury Refrigeration & Air Conditioning is invented — the way it is built is not. None of this is work delivered for a client. It is the shape we would give such a project — with the same depth, but without a client who would have to answer for it.

Where it starts

Thornbury Refrigeration & Air Conditioning holds service contracts with committed response times. The fault line takes notes on a pad, the deployment plan hangs on a whiteboard in the office, and which deadline applies to which customer lives in a spreadsheet in the service manager's head. On a fault call at 4:40 PM that combination decides whether a penalty falls due.

Decisions

  • The deadline lives on the ticket, not in the contract

    When a fault is logged, the response time is pulled from the service contract and stays visible on the ticket. A deadline you have to look up does not get looked up under pressure.

  • A control room, not an overview page

    The entry screen is sorted by urgency, not by arrival. That is the decision against the obvious list: whoever walks in first thing does not need the newest item, but the one running out first.

  • The spare part belongs with dispatch

    An engineer without the right part drives out twice. So parts requirement and availability hang off the deployment plan rather than a separate stock list — the decision happens while assigning, not afterwards.

Deliberately left outNo route planning and no vehicle tracking. Both are tempting and drag in monitoring and data protection questions that have to be settled before the first line of code — not in a demo, but with the drivers, and where a union contract applies, with the union.

What is in it

Screens
5
Content blocks
18
Languages
4

Five screens, in all four languages, with sidebar, header and stated role. Navigation works; board, tables, calendar, history and forms are rendered and inert. Ticket numbers, customers and deadlines are invented.

How it would go on

  • How faults arrive

    Phone, email, customer portal — every report has to end up with the same number regardless of the route it came in on.

  • Engineer app

    Job acceptance, checklist, photographs and times on site. Without it the control room stays a view somebody keeps current by hand.

  • Contract and billing

    What the contract covers, what gets charged, and how the work travels from the ticket into the invoice.

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