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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 ...

The Role of Photos in Retail Execution

The opportunity to view complex information in a visual format cannot be underestimated. Integrating visual content into your retail execution process improves efficiency and drives engagement, working the same way as in social media and on TV screens. If your field reps are obliged to make photo reports, the chance they’ll manage shelves as good as they can is bigger. The most effective way to integrate visual content into your retail execution process is to adopt a comprehensive mobile data collection software solution for retail audits, merchandising activities and field sales. Of course, you can empower your field reps with digital photo cameras, so they can make photo reports at points of sale, but in today’s mobile world it’s not reasonable to buy separate devices for work that can be done using employees’ smartphones. Still, when your reps use cameras, built in their mobile devices, for reporting, it’s necessary to transfer the data into corporate database and streaml...

The Benefits of Mobile Order Management

Mobile order management has significant advantages compared to paper-based order processing. By implementing mobile order management companies get the following benefits: Improve order accuracy. Mobile order management helps eliminate paperwork and reduce data entry mistakes. Taking orders using tablets and smartphones allows company to completely refuse the use of paper forms, which means no more re-entering orders. Increase the efficiency of your sales workforce. Mobile order management reduces the time for order processing, allowing your sales reps and their managers to concentrate on more important things than manual data entry. Enhance better customer service, shipping faster. Orders, taken by sales reps on a smartphone or a tablet, instantly sync to a company’s back office and are available for further processing by sales managers. Acquire more customers. Mobile order management solutions allow field reps to add new customers to the corporate database on the go,...

Mobile Order Taking on Android & iOS with VisitBasis

Looking for a simple and powerful mobile ordering system? VisitBasis Field Sales makes orders fast and easy using Android and iOS tablets and smartphones and provides wide capabilities to service your customers’ needs. Built-in bar-code scanner allows field reps to add items to an order by simply scanning. Automated product selection reduces time for product search, while minimizing mistakes. When order is complete, it’s instantly available at the office for further processing due to automatic synchronization. Customer database and product catalog allow field reps to quickly access the information on points of sale, products, prices, recommended quantities, and must stock lists. Using VisitBasis Field Sales App for order taking, your field reps are always able to view previous orders and returns, identify past out-of-stock patterns to get data-driven insights for the next orders. VisitBasis Field Sales App also allows managing price lists and discounts and ad...