Rootstock Field Service Software

Eliminate the Gap Between Field Teams and Back Office

Field service is a margin driver. Capturing that margin requires visibility into what techs consume, what it costs, and how fast you can invoice. Rootstock is the Field Service solution that gets you that visibility natively on Salesforce.

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Capturing Field Service Margin

Whether you've invested in Salesforce Field Service, ServiceMax, or another field service management solution, the pattern is the same. Dispatching works. Work orders are tracked. But the moment a technician needs a part that isn't on the truck, operations needs van-level stock visibility, or finance needs job-level cost data, you're toggling into a separate system or spreadsheet.

That gap is where margin disappears. Your team is spending hours on manual inventory reconciliation, cross-system job costing, and invoice re-entry, burning time and eroding margin. Rootstock connects your field service operations to your inventory, purchasing, and cost accounting natively on Salesforce. What your field teams do and what your back office knows are always in sync, so you capture the margin your teams are creating.

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THE PROBLEM

Where field service breaks without connected operations

Your field operations are humming. Dispatching works. Technicians love the mobile app. But the processes that connect field activity to financial and operational outcomes are held together with workarounds that don't scale. These are the five areas where the gap between your field service platform and your back office costs the most:

Field techs consume parts that never reconcile back to inventory, leaving stock levels as guesses. Excess and shortages coexist across warehouses, vans, and depots, leading to stockouts, wasted trips, and repeat visits. Without batch and serial tracking at consumption, you lose traceability, and parts go missing from truck stock with no van-level tracking.

Vendor agreements and purchase orders live in one system while field demand lives in another. Procurement can't leverage combined demand for better terms, emergency buys don't roll into job cost, and spending fragments. The supply plan is always a step behind the field.

Labor, parts, and overhead from field jobs don’t roll into job costing, leaving profitability by product line as a guess. Without connected cost data, service managers can’t identify unprofitable contracts, customers, or product families. When true cost isn’t visible by work order, customer, or product line, field service runs as a cost center instead of a proven margin driver.

Manual invoicing slows everything down. Teams wait for confirmation on job completion, which items were used, whether it's covered under warranty, and what the pricing should be. Every delay extends the service-to-cash cycle. But without connected inventory and cost data feeding into the invoice, automation alone doesn't solve the problem.

When a part fails in the field, the process to return, replace, repair, or refurbish it should be seamless. Instead, most organizations manage RMAs through email threads and spreadsheets. There's no visibility into what's been returned, what's pending repair, or what's available for redeployment. Depot repair becomes a black hole where cost and status are invisible.

THE SOLUTION

One platform that closes every gap

Rootstock lives natively on the Salesforce platform. Every field service work order, every part consumed, every labor hour logged, and every invoice generated shares the same data model. You get:

Real-time inventory across every location, van, and depot

Parts consumed on work orders are automatically decremented from inventory in real time. Multi-location tracking spans warehouses, vans, and depots. License plating ensures precise van stock visibility and replenishment. Batch and serial tracking provide full traceability from receipt through field use. Technicians arrive with the right parts, and warehouses know exactly what to pick.

End-to-end purchasing and vendor management tied to field demand

POs generate directly from work orders and replenishment recommendations, each linked to the originating job. Blanket agreements unify field and production demand for better supplier terms. MRP and DRP use consumption history and reorder points to stay ahead of demand. Emergency buys are captured and rolled into job cost automatically.

True cost accounting by work order, customer, and product line

Rootstock tracks costs for every part and labor hour on every work order. Gross profit is visible by work order, customer, product family, and technician. Service contract profitability is tracked over the life of the contract. Warranty costs are captured and posted automatically. Operations leaders tracking margin by job and finance leaders tracking it at the P&L have the same data.

Work order to invoice in one click

The Rootstock Field Service Connector creates an invoice directly from a closed work order. Parts, labor, travel, and service contract terms are pulled in automatically, and warranty determination happens within the workflow. Billing delays drop from weeks to minutes.

Connected returns, depot repair, and refurbishment

Rootstock manages the full RMA lifecycle from initiation through repair, refurbishment, or scrapping. Depot repair is tracked in real time, and refurbished inventory is automatically returned to stock. Every transaction ties back to the originating asset and work order, supporting failure analysis out of the box.

THE PROOF

Customer Results

Across our customer base, organizations running Rootstock for field service have reported measurable improvements in gross margin, reduced stock-outs, and lower carrying costs on excess and obsolete inventory. For CEOs and finance leaders, these are numbers that translate directly to the bottom line.

52%

reduction in warehouse transactional errors

reduction in stock  write offs

25%

increase in service orders generated

80%

reduction in scrap inventory

THE ADVANTAGE

Asset Visibility with Asset Service Lifecycle Management (ASLM)

Most field service solutions track work orders and parts. What they can’t do is connect every transaction against a specific serialized asset to a unified financial view. Rootstock extends Salesforce’s own Asset Service Lifecycle Management and service capabilities with the financial and inventory depth product companies need.

By linking a financial project to an asset record, every field service event, part consumed, labor hour, and cost rolls up to both the asset and the project simultaneously. Rootstock also maintains full serialized item history, including the original as-built BOM and the current as-maintained BOM, giving service teams a complete picture of what’s actually in the field.

What this enables:

Proactive service planning based on complete asset history and health trends
Stocking optimization driven by actual field consumption patterns
Consolidated demand planning that combines field service and production requirements into a single view for better supplier terms
Asset lifecycle data that fuels upstream marketing, surfacing patterns like repeat service on aging equipment to trigger campaigns for upgrades or replacements

Every transaction.
One asset. One platform.

Are you leaving field service gross margin on the table?

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