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Ford OWS Claim Summary Form

This form is displayed on printing an invoice to a warranty account and service contract account. It enables editing of claim-specific details for individual tasks, viewing a summary of labour and parts details, and validating claims.

WIP Details Group:

WIP number: Identifies the work-in-progress record to which the claims belong.

Registration: The registration number of the vehicle to which the WIP applies.

Claim: The status of the claim.  For example, NEW.  it is automatically allocated upon a warranty job being invoiced in POS.

Account number: The sales ledger account number the claim is invoiced to.

Customer name: Normally Ford warranty claims.

Account type: The type of account that the claim is invoiced to.

Grid

W-code: Numeric suffix identifying the warranty claim the line represents.

Note: Parts and labour lines with the same W code belong to a single warranty task.

RTS code: Scheduling labour code identifying the type of work to be carried out.

Text: Describes the type of work to be carried out.

Value: Value of the work to be carried out.

Valid: If selected, indicates that the line is valid.

Tip: If Valid isn't selected, the line isn't validated yet. To validate the line, right-click the line and select the Validate option on the popup menu.

Grid Right-Click Options

Note: It is the line that the popup menu options refers to, not the whole claim record. When all lines pass validation, the system generates and then displays a claim number.

Validate: If the line fails validation, the Invalidity Reasons form is displayed.  Each line in the grid corresponds to a validation failure. If it passes validation, a tick is placed in the  Valid column.

Tip: If, on selecting Validate, the Invalidity Reasons form is displayed, make a note of the nature of the failures displayed in the form's and return to the this form.  Right-click the offending line and select Edit details from the pop-up menu (or double-click the line). Correct the details in the Warranty claim information form and re-validate the claim.

Edit details: Enables amendment warranty content.

Display labour: Displays details of the labour content.

Display parts: Displays details of the parts content.

Internal claim text: Displays internal text.

Buttons:

OK: Validates the claim list. If it is not valid, reasons for its failure are displayed. If it is valid, a Claim creation dialog box lists the claims in its grid. Closing the Claim creation dialog box returns you to the Point-Of-Sale (Service) form.

Tip: If the OK button is greyed out, click the line and, on the popup menu, select Validate.

Cancel: Returns you to the Point Of Sale (Service) form with a new blank record.

Related topics:

Ford Warranty in Point-of-Sale