How to Choose a Retail Audit Software Solution

Traditional retail audit methodologies often result in incomplete coverage of stores due to human resource constraints and significant paperwork. Conducting a retail audit is often associated with colossal amount of data, lost paper forms, and fraudulent reports. Besides your field reps performing retail audits get exhausted from filling out paper forms, spending too much time at points of sale, making phone calls and visiting the office to report the results.

Therefore great number of companies uses the services of third-party organizations (advertising, marketing, consulting and BTL agencies) to organize retail-auditing process. The disadvantages of this option are the costs, poor cooperation between managers, loosing part of retail audit data, fraudulent reports, time gaps between a store visit and appropriate company's actions.

The automated retail auditing amazingly differs from traditional retail auditing. Today due to the new mobile technologies field reps are able to perform retail audits using just their tablets and smartphones with no need to visit the office to report the results. All the data collected at stores is automatically synced with corporate database and is instantly available for building analytic reports. The new way of retail audits organization provides faster data workflow and reduces time for decision-making, improving the bottom-line.

Choosing software for retail audits, you definitely have to focus on the needs and characteristics of your company’s business processes. Then consider the importance of such factors as the cost of implementation and use of retail audit software, usability and accessibility.

Here at VisitBasis we’ve focused on delivering a system that integrates completely with every process in your business. VisitBasis is all-in-one software solution that provides the most complete set of tools for your business in one great package. VisitBasis is designed to meet the market demand for scheduling field sales activities including CRM, processing orders, reporting and analyzing field sales performance.

Key benefits of retail audit software

For management:

Save on field operation costs by optimizing routes and eliminating paperwork
Increase field rep performance by improving training and mentoring through monitoring
Streamline field data collection and have immediate access to visit information

For field reps:

Get the job done on the spot: eliminate after-hour reporting
Optimize customer routes and save time while getting more done
Supervisors/managers will automatically know you are properly doing your job, improving communication

Why choose VisitBasis?

VisitBasis provides the most complete set of tools for your business in one great package. Through the implementation of a structured approach for retail visits and tasks, VisitBasis simplifies data collection and analysis.

Easy to deploy and cost-effective – VisitBasis retail audit software implementation takes a little time and no money. Visitbasis Lite is the only Free Mobile Data Collection solution on the market. You can start your retail audits automation completely free after you create an account at www.visitbasis.com.

Every mobile activity is GPS and time-stamped – Fraudulent check-ins become easy to detect and dealt with
True offline/online capabilities - Mobile users are able to work offline and the system synchronizes once online - no need for paper alternatives
Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) - Your reps can use their own mobile devices so there is no need for you to invest in additional hardware
Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian - For field reps of all backgrounds

Implementing Sustainable Merchandising

In the factory-to-customer cycle, merchandising is one of the most wasteful processes. From the fuel consumed by field reps to the amount of paper used in traditional audits and surveys, on top of promotional and seasonal displays, it is easy to see why merchandising is considered “eco-unfriendly”. A field merchandising app can make a world of difference when it comes to sustainability. By adopting a field merchandising app, CPG and FMCG businesses can expect the following: Virtually eliminate the use of paper in in-store activities such as planogram checks, audits, surveys, and orders, among others. A state-of-the-art field merchandising app will also allow for instant access to the data collected, slashing the time and cost spent on data entry. Considerable savings in rep travel time and fuel thanks to the route optimization functions of field merchandising apps that automatically calculate the shortest store rounds. A cross-platform field merchandising app will all

Cloud for Retail Execution: Make Away with Data Storage Costs

Why Go Paperless? In order to store 2 million paper documents, an organization can expect to spend between $40,000 and $60,000 on filing cabinets alone. Those same files could fit on fewer than ten CD-ROMs (Business Guide to Paper Reduction) . If we assume that a filing cabinet uses from 6 to 20 square feet of space and the office space costs $23 per square foot , the space for a one filing cabinet will cost a company $1656– 5520 per year . How to Go Paperless? When you choose paperless data collection your data storage costs can be significantly reduced or even brought to zero. Digital data collected using mobile forms require much less space than paper sheets and therefore cost less money. With the development of mobile technology you don’t need CDs or any other data carriers to store and access your data. More and more companies opt for Cloud storage. The price of Cloud storage starts at $0.01 GB per month and the average number of MS Word pages per GB is 64782.

Solving Information Loss in Merchandising Once and For All

Information loss used to be an inevitable consequence of retail merchandising. With many field reps performing a number of tasks on each one of the stores in their individual territories, it is easy to see how the amount of data collected on the field grows exponentially and is, therefore, increasingly difficult to handle and more subject to information loss. Mobile merchandising software is the ideal solution to information loss in retail merchandising. When businesses implement a mobile merchandising software solution, they prevent information loss in the following stages of data processing: Data collection It is easy to see how information can get lost in traditional pen-and-paper merchandising. With mobile merchandising software, field reps perform tasks such as filling out forms and taking pictures in their mobile devices, leading to less misunderstanding and mix-ups. Data transcription With mobile merchandising software, there is no data transcription. The information goe

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