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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 ...

4 Reasons to Move Your Merchandising Data to the Cloud

When a company implements paperless merchandising audits through a Cloud merchandising software solution , its data storage costs can be brought to zero. The up-to-date merchandising SaaS providers usually offer Cloud storage as part of their service. Except the opportunity to store big data for free, companies that implement a Cloud-based merchandising software solution can expect the following benefits: Reduce spending on software and infrastructure.  Choosing a Cloud-based merchandising software solution you can improve the efficiency of operations and increase productivity with minimum upfront spending. Adopting a SaaS merchandising software solution a company saves on IT-support and server hardware. Increase your mobile workforce productivity.  Your merchandisers and field team managers worldwide can access the cloud database 24/7. Being on the Cloud also makes it possible for merchandisers to work offline, and the system will automatically synchronize once ...

How a BYOD Strategy Can Keep Your Field Reps Happier and More Productive

Today BYOD is changing the way software is managed and secured. As personal mobile devices became increasingly affordable, the growing number of people began using tablets and smartphones to work outside the office . Field representatives, who are constantly on the go, have one of the greatest needs for a mobile approach to performing tasks at points of sale. A BYOD policy enables companies leveraging mobile technologies to improve field reps’ productivity and decrease enterprise hardware expenditure. More importantly, by implementing BYOD strategy a company can also get: 1. Happier field reps – Using their familiar personal devices keeps field reps more comfortable for the following reasons: They do not have to carry additional company-owned tablet or smartphone along with their own mobile device. They don't have to switch attention between their own and a company-owned devices. They probably love the device and it’s features because they have once chosen it...

Top Benefits of Retail Execution Software

Companies of all kinds conduct retail audits to to provide documented verification that point-of-sales meet corporate compliance policy and marketing strategies are properly implemented at stores. To start retail auditing you have to provide your field managers with guidelines for what is to be done, to define store visits frequency and to determine channels for delivering store audit data back to the office. Retail audit software can help to increase the efficiency of retail operations and improve field reps productivity. VisitBasis retail audit software is a complete data collection solution to for managing, scheduling, and monitoring field team activities in real-time. VisitBasis offers the following advantages: Visits and tasks can be scheduled by the office or on the mobile app Field reps or office managers can optimize customer routes Office managers visually assign stores to field reps, using a map Field reps have access to all data offline and can execute tasks...