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# Warranty Lifecycle Management in Automotive Cloud

Understand the high-level tasks involved in managing the end-to-end warranty and claim lifecycle in Automotive Cloud.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions</td></tr></tbody></table>

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          <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d114889e61">Business Operation</th>
          <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d114889e64">Tasks To Be Performed</th>
        </tr>
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          <td data-label="Business Operation" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d114889e61 ">Establish robust service operation standards</td>

          <td data-label="Tasks To Be Performed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d114889e64 ">
            <ul>
              <li>Create standard codes to describe product defects, labor services, expenses, and other
                operations</li>

              <li>Map the combinations of product defects with the different labor services that can
                rectify them</li>

              <li>Apply consistent standards while defining warranty rules and adjudicating warranty
                claims</li>

              <li>Easily estimate labor efforts and optimize the allocation of resources</li>

            </ul>
          </td>

        </tr>
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          <td data-label="Business Operation" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d114889e61 ">Manage warranties for products and assets</td>

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            <ul>
              <li>Define comprehensive warranty entitlements including expenses, including labor, parts,
                and expenses covered and exchange types</li>

              <li>Establish thorough rules on warranty eligibility including those based on product usage
                and warranty duration</li>

              <li>Assign warranties to products, product families, and assets</li>

              <li>Extend or restrict warranty term coverage based on product defect, labor service
                require, or causal part of the product</li>

              <li>Define exclusions, void terms, and extensions for the coverage of warranties assigned to
                specific assets</li>

            </ul>
          </td>

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          <td data-label="Business Operation" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d114889e61 ">Capture warranty claims from dealers</td>

          <td data-label="Tasks To Be Performed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d114889e64 ">
            <ul>
              <li>Accurately investigate product defects with detailed information on defected assets,
                causal parts, and product fault codes</li>

              <li>Get visibility into existing warranty coverages to verify claim eligibility</li>

              <li>Track expenses incurred, labor services performed, and parts replaced to rectify the
                asset</li>

              <li>Associate stakeholders involved with a warranty claim to solicit additional
                information</li>

              <li>Let dealers effortlessly upload warranty claims on the Automotive Experience Cloud
                site</li>

              <li>Track the channel where the first notice of loss (FNOL) was received</li>

            </ul>
          </td>

        </tr>
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          <td data-label="Business Operation" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d114889e61 ">Adjudicate warranty claims</td>

          <td data-label="Tasks To Be Performed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d114889e64 ">
            <p>Set up a automation process to adjudicate claims, or manually adjudicate
              them.</p>
            <p>Consider setting up an automated process to achieve the following outcomes:</p>
            <ul>
              <li>Reduce subjectivity and processing time for claims adjudication</li>

              <li>Quickly perform error-prone, repetitive administrative tasks</li>

            </ul>
            <p>Consider a manual adjudication process to achieve the following outcomes:</p>
            <ul>
              <li>Audit warranty claims that are processed by automation workflow or other claim
                adjudicators</li>

              <li>Verify payouts for warranty claims with significant financial implications</li>

            </ul>
          </td>

        </tr>
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          <td data-label="Business Operation" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d114889e61 ">Manage supplier recovery claims</td>

          <td data-label="Tasks To Be Performed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d114889e64 "><a name="auto_warranty_claim_work_together__ul_n13_tcz_lcc"><!-- --></a>
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              <li>Capture information about suppliers and map details about the parts and components
                procured from them.</li>

              <li>Create contracts and establish defined terms for business requirements with suppliers to
                simplify recovery processes.</li>

              <li>Raise reimbursement requests for parts that show defects and are covered under contract
                terms with suppliers.</li>

              <li>Define details about the causal parts in defective assets through supplier claim, claim
                item, and claim coverage records.</li>

              <li>Capture comprehensive information about the expenses incurred for the replacement,
                repair, or return of causal parts through claim coverage payment detail records.</li>

              <li>Track the supplier recovery claims for adjudication and approval by suppliers.</li>

            </ul>
          </td>

        </tr>
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    </table>