Service excellence happens every day at SMS because of the efforts and hard work of individuals who know that a satisfied customer is a great customer.
As part of our ongoing commitment to provide exceptional service with
unequaled response times, SMS built our own network of "bricks and mortar"
service centers worldwide.
When our competitors were either outsourcing or closing their service centers, SMS was investing,
expanding and building service centers in every
region we service directly.
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Service
delivery regions |
SMS currently delivers direct support to:
- Canada
- China
- Hong Kong
- United States
SMS delivers indirect support to all other locations
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Service
delivery procedures |
When SMS is contacted with an incident, you
may
participate in some limited phone-based troubleshooting to identify
the root cause of the problem. This remote troubleshooting minimizes
the overall system downtime by getting the issue fixed
quickly and remotely or by helping SMS to dispatch the right engineer with the
right part.
Our objective is to maximize your uptime by
minimizing your downtime with a remedy on the
first call.
Using singlePoint®, our Call Center agents will access our
database for devices you have under contract. If you contact the
Call Center directly, the agent will serve you better if you have your
contract number, system serial number, operating system version, and
peripheral models you are using.
Let the agent know what error message you are receiving and when
it occurs, as well as what steps you may have already taken to solve
the problem. If SMS cannot resolve the issue over the phone, a service
call will be placed to dispatch the appropriate part(s) and Field Engineer.
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Service
dispatch procedures |
On 4-hour response contracts with the 7x24 option,
calls will be responded to within 4 hours regardless of the time
the dispatch was created by SMS Technical Support.
The technician will call you within 1/2 hour of the dispatch
to discuss the status of the service call. 4-hour response
parts are brought directly to you via your Field Engineer.
On Next Business Day response service contracts,
calls dispatched by SMS Field Engineer before 5:00 p.m. local customer
time, will be responded to the next business day. For calls dispatched
after 5:00 p.m. local customer time, the service technician may take
an additional business day to arrive at your location. The actual
response time on the next business day is dependent upon parts delivery
to the technician for the customer's local area. Once the part is
received, the technician will attempt to call the customer directly
to schedule a specific time that is convenient to deliver the service
that day.
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SMS works to provide a single point of contact for the resolution of IT
equipment failures that occur in your data center. Now,
these equipment failures can be recorded, actioned, tracked and resolved with greater accuracy
and efficiency than ever before.