Customer Services Portal
Manage the performance and service needs of your Philips products across modalities, anywhere, anytime
Driving Service, at Your Fingertips
When it comes to improving patient and staff experience, and managing equipment to peak efficiency, Philips has great news. We’ve added new, useful features to our Customer Service Portal! Easy access to documentation for patient care-critical equipment, enhanced reporting capabilities, and information that spans modalities at various levels – case, contract, warranty, and more.
Other New Features
Login to the portal anywhere, anytime
Manage cases
Customer Services Portal
Driving service, at your fingertips
Why choose the Customer Services Portal?
Erik Dupont
Erik Dupont, Medical physicist at Zeeland University Hospital, uses Customer Services Portal to drive operational efficiency, predict lifetime of equipment and reduce downtime at the same time.
The Portal is a tool that extends the communication with Philips. We see it as a tool to get rid of time wasting procedures. It improves the information flow and it helps getting data from service."
- Erik Dupont, Medical Physicist, Zeeland University Hospital, Denmark
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is the Philips Customer Services Portal?
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Proper management of service activities across your various imaging systems and software is critical, yet challenging. Philips Customer Services Portal makes life easier by giving you one place from which to manage your assets.
Always there, always on
Available 24/7, regardless of where you are located, the Customer Services Portal helps you to see which of your organization’s assets are up and running – or to order service for those that are not.
The Customer Services Portal enables better decisions for your medical equipment and related services, and enhances your operational performance by streamlining workflow. It’s always there, always on.Understanding your needs, designed for you
To truly understand your needs and provide the best response, we sought your advice. Based upon your feedback, each subsequent Customer Services Portal release will present new opportunities for even greater control over system uptime and productivity via online coordination.
- What are user accounts?
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There are two roles defined in Customer Services Portal:
• Customer Portal User (CPU): a user that has access to the Customer Services Portal. The CPU can see the accounts of the Customer Services Portal Parent account that are assigned to this account.
• Customer Portal Manager (CPM): this user has the same functionality as a CPU, in addition the CPM is also able to handle user management for this parent account: create new CPUs, change account assignment and disable accounts.
- Which browsers are supported?
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Browser
Version
Internet Explorer
9 or higher
Google Chrome
All
Firefox
All
- Glossary
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Terminology
Description
Asset Description
Philips internal asset description
Asset ID
Philips internal asset number
Case - Priority
1 - Critical Need
2 - System Down
3 - System Restricted
4 - Intermittent problem
5 - Scheduled ActivityCase activity -Type
Problem Reported by customer
Safety Question
T2 Activities
External RemarksCase Number
Philips internal case number
Case Origin
Phone: case reported via Philips Customer Care center by phone
Web: cases reported via Customer Services Portal
Case Status
New: Case is logged.
In Process: Philips Service Engineer is handling the case
Fixed: Reported issue has been solved.
Closed: Case is closed and archived.
Custom Asset Name
Customized asset name entered by Customer Portal Manager
Event Type
Corrective Maintenance
Preventative Maintenance
Field Change Order
Installation
Application Support
Customer Information
Contractual UpgradeExpiration Status (Contracts)
Green: >90 days from today
Yellow: >30 and <90 days from today
Red: <30 days from today
Functional Location Description
Physical location of the device/asset as per Philips install base records
Install Date
Installation date as per Philips install base records
Line Item Description
Description of the Philips contract
Line Item Number
Entitlements number from Philips Contract Number associated to this asset
PO
Purchase Order
Product Modality
Group of Product family such as:
MR: Magnetic Resonance
US: Ultrasound,
CT: Computed Tomography
IXR: Interventional X-RayReport Closure Date
Closure date reported by Philips Service Engineer
SAP SWO
Internal Philips SAP reference number
Serial Number
Serial Number of the Asset
Service Contract
Philips Service Contract Number
Service Performance & Quality Report
If entitled for your asset, you're able to download the Service Performance and Quality Report for this asset
Service Type
Onsite
Remote
Bench repair
Parts Only
Sub-contractor serviceShip To
Account to which the contract has been sold to
Status
Active, Inactive, …
Technical ID (Tech ID)
Philips internal technical ID
UDI
Unique Device Identifier
- Do the 1EMS CS Portal and the SMx CS Portal have different URLs?
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No, both CS portals can be accessed using the same URLs.
- How long are the Activation and Password Reset mails active?
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The 'Login and create password'/'Login and renew your password’ buttons in the account activation/password reset mails are active for 24 hours upon receiving the mail. Once expired, a password reset request must be submitted (see respective mail for contact details).
- What is the policy around passwords?
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A password must be updated every 90 days (upon setting a password) adhering to the Philips IT Security Guidelines. A password must be at least 8 characters long and must contain at least one:
- Number
- Special character
- Lower case character
- Upper case character
- As I did not login for some time I had to request a password reset. Now I still cannot access my account... what happened?
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In order to reduce the risk of owning unused licenses, the portal automatically deactivates user accounts that have been inactive for more than 120 days. With this deactivation, the account assignment is also removed, which is why a user would experience the portal without any data. Please contact your local portal help desk to re-assign your account.
- I see accounts in the account list that I don't recognize... what happened?
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In the CS Portal, installed products are linked to accounts (the owner) with a location. In addition, contracts and warranties are also linked to the installed products. As it is possible that a contract and/or warranty is associated with an account other than the account of the installed product, these (other) accounts are shown as well. An example could be a CT scanner that is owned by account 'A' but the service contract is with account 'B'. In this case, the portal will show both accounts.
- Can I log into the old and the new portal using the same user-id?
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No you can't. Although it is possible to access both the old and the new CS portal, this can only be done using two different user-ids (you can, however, use the same URL for both portals). Keep in mind though that in the old CS portal you will not be able to create cases. Also, as soon as the new CS portal goes live in your country, neither installed product data (the assets), nor contracts nor cases will be updated in the old CS portal.
- Which roles exists and what is the difference from an authorization perspective?
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Like the old CS Portal, the new CS portal recognizes 3 roles, each with different capabilities as shown in overview below.
Role
Create Cases
Create/Manage User
Maintain IP Custom Details*
Viewer
No
No
No
User
Yes
No
No
Manager
Yes
Yes
Yes
*The IP Custom Details contain the customer's description of a piece of equipment, reference number and location (Installed Product).
- I am unable to open the CFDs from the CS Portal. What should I do?
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It is likely that your browser has the 'Pop-Up-Blocker enabled. Please check your browser setting and make sure that Pop-Ups are allowed for https://www.customerservices.philips.com
- Where can I find case details from cases created/closed in the legacy system?
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These historical cases are not available via the generic case lists. They can be accessed via the 'Historical Cases' button of the Installed Product details pages.
