3 Ways to Optimize Your Field Team Management

Managing a sales team isn't easy. In today’s world sales team members can even work in different cities, countries and time zones, or even speak different languages. A field team manager has to deal with a lot of information and coordinate different processes during a day. The key solution to simplify field team management together with making it more effective is to use the right tools for planning, monitoring, control and analysis of all the activities in the field.

Today there are different kinds of field team management software solutions on the market, which allow managers gather real-time store data to streamline retail operations for greater efficiency and profitability. By implementing the right type of software with such features as Cloud storage, BYOD implementation, offline data collection capabilities, time and GPS-tracking, role-based access to data, you'll be able to optimize your field team management in the following ways:

Store all the data in one place. A comprehensive software solution for field team management allows managing customers, products and users; plan retail visits and create various mobile missions for retail audits, order taking, customer survey, in-store measurement, mystery shopping, and so on; monitor all the activities in the field; communicate directly with mobile staff and built analytic reports to assess field team performance. The great benefit of a field team management solution is that you don’t have to switch between different systems while managing these processes – everything you need to control your field team members can be found in one application.
Use all the advantages of Cloud data storage, free of charge. Some of field team management software vendors offer Cloud storage as a part of their service. Keeping your data in the Cloud has significant advantages compared to traditional data storage. Cloud field team management solutions allow you to instantly aggregate data as soon as field activities are being completed and access your data from anywhere 24/7. When adopting a Cloud-based field team management software solution, you can count on the best service availability even if your company is multinational and runs in different countries and time zones.
Eliminate hardware costs by virtue of BYOD solution. The up-to-date field team management solutions run common software platforms, such as Android and iOS, which allows using personal tablets and smartphones to perform tasks at points of sale. By using the devices they’ve already got used to, your field reps can be more comfortable and effective, and the company doesn’t have to spend money for training and purchase of devices.

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The VisitBasis Field Team Management App is available for free download on Google Play or App Store for any number of users. There is no limit on the number of devices each user can carry, so your team can bring their own devices and be more effective.

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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