Why field staff management is important ?

WHY FIELD STAFF MANAGEMENT IS IMPORTANT ?

Field staff management is an important thing for an organization especially for those having sales department. To know the real time status of their employees, they have to call them and get details about their work location. There are more chances to provide wrong location information by employees. To assist companies in this situation, a good field staff tracking mobile app is the best solution. It will help companies to make their employees work more responsibly by tracking the location and daily activities of marketing team the marketing team.  

A smart phone based real time data capturing application which pin points the location address using phone's GPS will make this process easier. By installing app on the phone you want to track, your admin can use a web application to allocate work tasks and locate the current position easily. The employee has to login into the application and have to mark their ‘on duty’ when they start their work. If the employee wants to travel as a part of his work, journey starting location wants to be entered.  Thus their location can be tracked by the admin and remain updated about the respective employee. Employee attendance with their current location, details of their client meetings (geographical location and time) can be monitored easily. After completing the work, employee marks ‘off duty’. Now the admin will have a record of total locations travelled by each employee.

A good application will incorporate functionalities such as Attendance, Customer Data Collection, Travelling Expenses, Client Meetings and Lead estimations to track the sales force. Now let’s have a look at the features and benefits of a good field staff tracking app:  

FEATURES

• User-friendly interface
• View to daily assignments
• Both  online and offline working
•  Location display on  google map
• Attendance  punch  from mobile 
• Customizable according to client  

BENEFITS

• Increased sales & productivity
• Locate employees as per defined time frequency
• Keeps record of employee’s work for further use
• Tracks daily attendance with the current location  
• Records travel/conveyance as per assigned clients  
• Generation  of TA/DA report as per visited client details
• Can collect feedbacks/suggestions about client meetings  
• Pre-planned meetings & assignments can be assigned to field staffs
• Can track the whole journey of  employee for the estimation of TA 
• By integrating real-time inventory, orders can be created and stock status can be viewed. It help companies to plan better product inventory, pricing & delivery

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                                                                                                       Author : Neena Johny