Workforce productivity is among the many problems facing the
field based organizations. The main reason for not so encouraging field force
productivity is due to lack of a system that tracks productivity. Traditional
way of tracking productivity is mainly carried out through existing
measurements that results in data inconsistency and inaccuracies. Moreover
assessing field force productivity is plagued with many issues.
Field services application provides an effective mechanism
to automate tracking of data pertaining to field operations and technicians
involved in the operations. It helps field technicians to report back to the
management with all the information including the status of the task in real
time. This results in providing management to closely monitor any poor
management issues.
Field based organizations often are faced with the daunting
task of managing operational costs. Improper handling of scheduling, estimating
and dispatching work order results in increasing the operational costs. To
optimize operational costs, lessen field costs and enhance productivity it is
imperative to user field services software that streamlines scheduling,
optimizes appointments and dispatches field forces on locations.
The usage of field services eases work order generation.
This is accomplished by assigning the tasks to an immediate available skilled
technician in the location. Moreover the fact that this application can be
deployed on mobiles makes it more viable option. The work orders can be
directly dispatched to the immediate available technician in the location and customer
address locater helps to bring down the time taken to reach customers.