Implementing BYOD for Happier and More Productive Merchandisers

Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) is an IT policy, where employees are allowed or encouraged to use their personal devices – notebooks, tablets and smartphones – to access enterprise data and systems. Today BYOD is changing the way business is done. Many people already use their own tablets and smartphones to work outside the office as mobile devices became increasingly affordable.

Merchandisers, like all mobile staff, who are constantly on the go, have one of the greatest needs for a mobile access to corporate data. By implementing a BYOD policy, a company provides mobile approach to performing data collection tasks at points of sale. Meanwhile, BYOD not only allows decreasing hardware expenses, but what’s even more important, getting more productive and happier employees.

How BYOD Improves Your Merchandisers’ Productivity

When you pair a merchandising mobile app with BYOD you can enhance your merchandisers’ productivity and easily overcome employees’ resistance to the new technology. With a merchandising mobile application your field staff can perform great variety of tasks using just their tablets and a smartphones. If your merchandisers use their own tablets and smartphones to perform tasks at retail locations, they operate familiar interface and features, and therefore do not have to think how to deal with the device or spend time to learn how to use it. In this case the technology itself becomes less distractive making merchandisers more focused and productive. All data collection tools appear in a format your merchandisers are familiar with.

How BYOD Makes Your Merchandisers Happier

Using their familiar personal devices keeps merchandisers more comfortable during a workday. Most of people now consider their smartphone more important than breakfast. People get used to having smartphones everywhere and made them a significant part of their lives. Your merchandisers will definitely be happier if they do not have to carry additional company-owned tablet or smartphone along with their own piece of hardware constantly switching attention between the devices. Besides, they love their own devices, because they have once chosen it for themselves. Users tend to upgrade to the latest mobile devices more frequently than enterprises. Personal devices tend to be more cutting-edge, so the company can benefit from the latest technologies.

Starting new tasks and activities becomes easier and faster with BYOD as merchandisers are confident in devices they use and there is no learning curve to overcome. Having all mobile tools on a single device, which they are used to and familiar with, your merchandisers can perform data collection tasks more quickly, becoming more productive and satisfied with their job.

The VisitBasis Merchandising App works on common mobile platforms such as Apple's iOS and Google's Android, which enables BYOD policy implementation. The VisitBasis Merchandising App can be downloaded absolutely free for any number of users on Google Play and App Store. Sign up today at www.visitbasis.com to get your free access to our merchandising software.

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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