How to Know if Your Business Needs an Enterprise App A Guide for Business Innovators

If your business faces one of these

6 challenges or involves one of

these 6 common functions it needs

a mobile app.

CHALLENGES

1. New employees have to be hired to complete tasks

Manual data collection leads to a cost domino effect:1. More staff needed for growing processes

2. More managers needed to oversee staff

3. Increased salary bills

A mobile app can help:• Collate and present data

• Track employees

• Enforce specific workflows

• Escalate problems

2. Slow decision-making

Smart and responsive decisions need good data.Good data needs to be comprehensive, but also timely.

Mobile apps give you:

• Real-time data availability

• Automated, rule-based analysis

• Better and faster data dissemination

Get data in the right hands for faster, more effective decision-making.

3. The cost of an operation is too expensive

The pressure on budgets and timelines is higher than ever before.

Enterprise apps let you know:

• Which part of a project is costing more too much

• Where you can trim

• How to reduce overall costs

Even when selling across international subsidiaries, you can:

• Manage a single standardized process

• Track under or overpriced components, globally

• Distribute costs effectively

• Reach new markets with improved efficiency

4. Difficulty establishing audit trails

Establishing verifiable audit trails is hard. But it’s increasingly important for

quality assurance.

Mobile apps help you establish checks and tasks that ensure accountability at every stage of the project or supply chain.

Get an app to:

• Make sure that checklists are followed

• Validate data on the fly

• Capture and centrally store audit trails

5. Constantly working long hours to cover for manual

things that go wrong

Stuck at the office every night to make sure that data is accurate and everything is running smoothly?

Pulling all-nighters when something breaks?

Often, manual data validation is to blame. An app can solve this problem by:

• Capturing data

• Applying rule-based accuracy validation during input

• Alerting you of any emergencies

This allows you to manage by exception and saves you valuable time.

5. There are just lots of inefficiencies in the business

Are inefficiencies in your business being ignored as the ‘cost of doing business’?

Mobile apps can help by:

• Eliminating paper forms

• Creating a central channel of communication

• Reducing the number of sales visits

• Assessing employee efficiency

It’s up to the visionary executive or manager to see the potential for greater efficiency and to embrace the technology that can tackle these challenges.

FUNCTIONS

#1: Asset Audits and Compliance Reports Use cases: Asset Audits, Asset Tracking, Compliance Audits, Store Audits

Asset audits are tedious, but fundamental to knowing where your company stands.

They take long, are error-prone, and verification is difficult.

Mobile apps make the process faster, more and more accountable:

• Scan digital barcodes

• Take photographs

• Collect date and timestamps

• Collect GPS coordinates

• Use built-in verification

#2: Stock Tracking and MerchandisingUse cases: Merchandising, Stock Management, Delivery, Returns

Improve accuracy of stock counts, keep track of stock integrity or reduce wastage.

Stock tracking:

• Track drivers

• Generate and settle invoices

• Improve forward planning for buyers

Merchandising:

• Complete jobs accurately and quickly

• Validate displays with photographs

• Monitor the competition

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#3: KYC (Know Your Customer) Data CollectionUse cases: Financial Products, Bank Accounts, Loans, Retail Loyalty Programs, Mobile Surveys

There’s no more need for brick-and-mortar branches to open accounts, originate loans or provide services.

Mobile apps help you sign up new customers or merchants wherever you are.

• Capture all legally-required KYC information

• Collect legal signatures with sign-on-glass functionality

• Never miss a field or signature thanks to built-in validation

• Guide agents through processes

• Eliminate additional paperwork

#4: Installation and maintenanceUse cases: Field Service, Equipment Installation & Maintenance, Incident Logging, Job Scheduling

Make technicians as productive as possible, maintain visibility of what they’re doing, and provide good, reliable customer service.

Help field workers to:

• Complete job cards electronically

• Follow strict workflows and checklists

• Enhance data capture with photographs and signatures

This helps managers:

• Maintain visibility of their workforce

• Allocate new jobs/tasks from anywhere

• Get real-time information from the field

#5: SalesUse cases: Field Service, Equipment Installation & Maintenance, Incident Logging, Job Scheduling

Selling a specialized or customized product doesn’t have to be a slow process.

• Put entire catalogues into a single sales app.

• Help customers adjust and design their ideal product

• Automatically generate quotes.

• Approve quotes on the spot

• Send orders automatically to warehouses or factories

• Generate invoices (in multiple languages, if necessary)

• Integrate with existing ERP and CRM systems.

It’s a better experience for salespeople and customers.

#6: Employee TrainingUse cases: Presenting Training Material, Testing Employee Knowledge

Many companies in the retail and service sector have a high turnover rate of staff, and training is a big investment.

Use a customized enterprise app to:

• Offer educational tools, specific to your organization

• Test progress with automatically-scored tests and answer validation

• Assign and monitor tasks with GPS and photographic verification

• Easily update and push latest training material to new hires

Apps are solving core business challenges and revolutionizing basic functions.Plus, they have almost endless potential for customization.

Have you spotted a challenge or a function that applies directly to your business?

Talk to one of our mobility experts.

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