39 Reasons to Mobilize
Your Business
Introduction:
ROI (return on investment) is the
term used to define the value of a
solution relative to the cost. If a
mobile solution costs $10,000, how
do you justify the investment?
Management needs to see that
their investment will provide them
with a positive return over a rea-
sonable time period. The following
list contains some of the most com-
mon justifications for mobilizing
business processes:
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1. Eliminate time spent in the re-typing data collected in the
field.
2. Reduce time spent on the phone dispatching service tickets ,
rather dispatch direct from your office computer to the mobile
handheld computer in the field.
3. Send driving directions in the mobile work order to save
driving time and fuel costs.
4. Save driving time by wirelessly synchronizing work orders
with the office
5. Reduce fuel costs by minimizing the need to drive back and
forth to the office to deliver paper work.
6. Provide better customer service by accessing their account
information via wireless connectivity on your handheld computer.
7. Improve the efficiency of field data collection by using
barcode scanners or RFID readers for rapid asset tracking.
8. Improve the quality of work by providing real-time
management visibility to work being done in the field.
9. Create and schedule service tickets direct from the field.
Reduces the need for an administrative intermediary.
10. Immediate invoicing for faster collections and cash
management by synchronizing with the office accounting system
or by using a mobile printer and credit card swipe machine on
the handheld computer
11. Proof of work – GPS audit trail of work with date and time
stamp documents location and time of work. Reduces invoicing
disputes.
12. Reduce introductions of human errors with automated
business processes and systems integration. Move electronic
data from the field to your database applications without human
intervention.
13. Ensure complete data is sent from the field – incomplete data
wastes time tracking down later.
14. Avoid handwriting and translation errors by pre-populating
electronic form information.
15. Validate answers on mobile handheld PDA forms – to ensure
data accuracy.
16. Take digital images to document work and avoid invoicing
disputes
17. Push data to the handheld and avoid time communicating
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information on the phone.
18. GPS tracking for reduced travel time and
lower fuel consumption.
19. Compute and analyze data on the handheld in
the field – programmed analytics can help field
users make quicker and better decisions.
20. Automated business processes - your mobile
application can be configured to perform all kinds
of automated business functions, queries,
computations, analytics and many more time
consuming features automatically based on data
input or buttons pushed.
21. Enforce business processes for efficiency and
best practices - mobile software solutions can be
configured to ensure the field user follows the
appropriate business processes
22. Avoid lost data —capture data immediately
and sync to headquarters.
23. Avoid undocumented inventory usage and
unbilled time due to forgetfulness. Enforce real
time data entry at point of work.
24. Require clock in and clock out at jobsites to
document the accuracy of work/time estimates.
25. Train new service technicians and inspectors
with audio memos or video clips.
26. Capture digital signature for proof-of-delivery
and proof of work on handheld computers
27. Query for available inventory in nearby work
vans to save travel time, inventory and fuel cost.
28. Use product and services information on
handheld computers to up-sell.
29. Query latest shipping status and/or inventory
levels via handheld computer while onsite with
customer.
30. Document work and inspections time and
dates to limit liability and disputes
31. Use mobile technologies as a competitive
advantage and show instant visibility to work
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39 Reasons to Mobilize
Your Business
done on their behalf.
32. Demonstrate to potential customers the
advantages of including GPS, time and date
stamps, digital images, audio memos and more to
document work and synchronize with the office
using your handheld computer.
33. Download product warranty information to the
handheld computer for review at point of work.
34. Using rugged handhelds are often easier to
carry around at job sites and are more durable
than using laptops—lower ownership costs
35. Mobile handheld computers with barcode
scanners capture data quicker than typing on a
laptop
36. Combine your phone, GPS device, laptop,
digital camera, paper forms and barcode scanner
all on one mobile handheld device to save money,
weight and support costs
37. Combine job estimates, inspections, work
orders, mobile inventory, time sheets all on one
mobile application and one synchronization
platform to mobilize and automate the entire
business.
38. Scale your business by lowering administrative
costs and the administrative work required to run
the business.
39. Improve profits by analyzing real-time data
collection on handhelds to understand the
amount of time each task takes—so better
scheduling and estimates can be implemented.