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Merchandisers’ turnover is a common thing in retail, but still it impacts customer relationships and company’s bottom line. Therefore, motivation of merchandisers is one of the most important components of management a retail merchandising team. Merchandisers, who feel satisfied and engaged with their work, are more productive and efficient. In the same time, motivating merchandisers, who are constantly on the go, can be quite a challenge. Merchandisers spend most of their workday outside the office, collecting retail data at various locations. It’s no wonder that their motivation is down. When it comes to job satisfaction, wage is not always on the top of the list. For outside employees feeling part of a team and being appreciated is at least as important as financial rewards. Getting no feedback from the management, merchandisers, begin to look elsewhere for a place where they’ll feel valued and appreciated. Keeping your merchandisers motivated allow to minimize cos...

Managing retail merchandising teams can be a challenge, especially when a company operates in many different retail locations. One of the biggest problems, a field team manager face when managing remote workforce, is communication. The good news is that in today’s mobile world it’s easy to find a merchandising software solution , which provides the whole team with the up-to-date communication tools. A comprehensive merchandising software solution strengthens cooperation between office managers and merchandisers, who work remotely, and makes it possible to have productive retail merchandising teams located all over the globe, in different timezones and countries. Here are a few examples of how merchandising software makes it easier to manage merchandising activities in the field. Keep your merchandisers up to date – Having a merchandising software solution on their tablets and smartphones, your merchandisers are instantly informed on scheduled visits and ...

Mobile technologies have changed the way people work. Field team management software allows optimizing all the operations in the field and providing excellent customer support. Today there are many different types of software available, from simple field reps tracking systems to comprehensive all-in-one solutions that allow you to manage all the operations in the field including retail audits, orders and returns, customer relations, POS, accounting and provide analytic capabilities to track field teams performance in real-time. Still there are common features that make some types of field team management software solutions better than others. Below you’ll find the most important takeaway tips for choosing field team management software. Opt for a comprehensive and scalable solution. Good field team management software covers all the operations in the field, providing real-time data exchange between field reps and the office. Great field team management software...

When it comes to the advantages of  field team management software , the vendors usually emphasize how it is great for business and for management. But what is good for management may not be that good for field reps, making them resist the innovation for various reasons. Field reps often complain that company’s field team management system is not user friendly, hard to maintain, and that they have to do too many clicks to perform a task, enter information to customer profile, or make a report. To make present-day technologies friendlier and get your field reps to appreciate it, you simply have to choose the right type of software. Your performance in the field determines the success of the company, so it’s critically important to give your field reps  the tools they will love to use . Below you’ll find what kind of field team management software features can make field reps love it. Simple, user-friendly interface    –      This is,...

Motivating field reps, who are constantly outside the office can be a daunting task. Furthermore, field team managers are so often overwhelmed with paperwork, that they don’t have neither time no enthusiasm to think of how to keep remote employees satisfied and engaged with their work. One of the ways to get employees motivated is by implementing field team management software solution that allow reducing the burden on managers and helps motivate field reps through the following things: Compensation. Most of field reps can be motivated successfully by money. Field reps motivation through money commonly comes in the form of performance bonuses or extra benefits like company-owned cars or mobile devices for work, vacation trips, fitness club cards snd so on. Field team management software helps easily identify top performing field reps, allowing managers to track all the activities in the field in real time and analyze results through Web-based dashboards and reports. A...