Technical field service inventory management

A system for technical field service in an inventory management, comprising:

• a field service van with product inventory for use by a field service technician, where a source of product inventory is a supply facility located on a worksite;
• a computing device coupled to a communications network, where the computing device is loaded with a software platform that is capable of,
• creating a work order object, where the work order object specifies a work tasking for the field service technician,
• creating a product required object, where the product required object specifies a product necessary for the field service technician to complete the work tasking,
• creating a product item object, where the product item object specifies a specific unit of product inventory to be used by the field service technician to complete the work tasking and an estimated quantity of the product necessary to complete the work tasking,
• creating a location object, where the location object specifies a location of a product inventory for the work tasking, creating an address/appointment object, where the address/appointment object specifies an address of the worksite and a time to begin the work tasking,
• creating a product item transaction object, where the product item transaction object specifies the estimated quantity of the specific unit of product inventory used to complete the work tasking and designated use of the specific unit of product inventory by the field service technician to complete the work tasking, and
• creating a product item consumed object with the server-based platform, where the product item consumed object specifies that the field service technician has affirmatively confirmed the use of the unit of product inventory to complete the work tasking,
• where the product item consumed object comprises an identification of a work order, a unit of measurement of the product, a quantity of the product consumed, a unit price of the product, and a price book entry reflecting a cost of the product consumed to complete the work tasking, and
• updating an inventory status for the source of product inventory with the server-based platform to reflect the usage of the product inventory;
• a mobile computing device coupled to the communications network, where the field service technician confirms consumption of the unit of product inventory with the mobile computing device.