One tool for all your mobile data capture
Many business owners, operational managers and team leads know “the field” can be messy. Truckers have to keep a log book, for example. But it can be difficult to keep everything organised – and that’s before someone needs to type up all the info from the log book.
Whether in health, agribusiness, government, construction/engineering, sales and service, transport or many other industries, a major challenge is simply keeping track of all the paper generated and knowing who’s doing what. It requires a significant amount of time, money and human resources – and things seem to go wrong more often than not.
Gaining control is achievable by understanding the situation and conquering paperwork. A Mobile Platform is a powerful ally that can fight for you and remain unfazed by struggles. It’s your knight in shining armour.
Learn more about AMS – Mobile Data Capture & Transfer for business process improvement for businesses of any size, small business, medium or large enterprise or government organisations.
Why is a Mobile platform an important tool for your business?
Mobile platform allow for efficient data collection and analysis on-the-go for businesses of all sizes. They can be used for a variety of purposes such as conducting surveys, capturing leads, collecting job information and conducting field inspections or audits. It’s an essential technology for organisations to capture and send data from its mobile workers to office systems. Good mobile platforms will help you achieve your business goals by being more efficient and effective than an existing process you might have.
Some benefits of using mobile platform for business include:
- Increased productivity and efficiency: Mobile platform allow employees to collect data and complete tasks quickly and easily, without the need for paper-based forms or manual data entry
- Real-time data collection: Data can be collected and transmitted in real-time, providing businesses with immediate insights and reducing the time it takes to make decisions
- Improved accuracy: Mobile platform can include built-in validation rules and data logic, which can help reduce errors and improve the accuracy of collected data
- Increased engagement: Mobile apps can be used to conduct surveys, collect feedback, and provide valuable data insights to the business.
A mobile platform will support your operational processes and strategic planning, and allow for business process management while still leaving you in control of decision-making. It should be simple for you and others in your organisation to use – and make your job easier.
Mobile data capture is important because it allows your staff to spend more time doing their job and less time on admin. It ultimately helps the organisation be better organised, efficient & effective and stay on top of things, which you’ll especially appreciate if you have lots of staff out in the field.
In other words, it gives you more order and freedom to focus on your core business.
What are the components of business operating systems?
Several parts make up a business operating system – not all these parts are created equal. Here are the two main components.
Technology to Make Business Processes Efficient
- The most obvious is technology. A mobile platform can take things that might’ve been written on paper and store them in huge binders, and put them in a digital format.
- Once information is in a digital format, a Mobile Platform should then be able to do data capture and transform into something you and others in your organisation can easily understand and use, even without knowing much about IT.
- An example would be info entered via a mobile app – like truckers filling out their log books or people at a scaffolding job site sending the required pictures for health and safety reporting – that can instantly be accessed by others across your organisation.
Integration of Operations system with Business Processes
Integration is another thing a mobile platform needs to have.
Put another way, it needs to be able to work seamlessly with whatever other systems you might already be using and with whatever systems you decide to use in the future.
A mobile platform will also improve the organisation’s processes, systems, roles, skills and structure. It will do this by helping your organisation become leaner – improving your performance by removing errors and reducing variation.
A Mobile Platform that Works for you
Getting business operating systems correct from the outset is essential for success and cost savings, allowing you to focus on your core business. There are a few choices, but AMS have the advantage of being developed for busy organisations of all sizes with many people in the field.
Mobile Platform in Action – Examples of NZ Businesses Winning With Mobile Technology
Here are a few examples of how effective AMS can be for a wide range of businesses and government organisations.
NZ Construction Giant Levels Up Their Payroll Processing from 10 Days to 2 Minutes with AMS!
With sites across New Zealand, Schick Civil Construction has lots of people and equipment in different places at all hours every day. Thus, keeping track of everything via paper time sheets and filling in forms was a cumbersome, time-consuming process affecting the company’s bottom line.
AMS helped in efficiently improving business processes by replacing paper time sheets with an electronic form that could be filled out on employees’ phones and tablets to save time and increase efficiency.
Previously, some time sheets took up to 10 days before being entered into the system for payroll processing; by filling the timesheets electronically, the process now takes just 1-2 minutes.
How AMS Helps Keep SGS Staff Safer In Real-Time
Another case study comes from SGS. SGS is one of the world’s largest inspection, testing and certification companies, working in fields as diverse as agriculture and manufacturing.
Field data is one of the most critical parts of their business. In New Zealand alone, 600+ staff make hundreds of daily field visits from 25 locations spread throughout the country.
SGS previously used paper forms for its inspections to ensure correct processes were followed. The forms had to be collected, then individually scanned and entered into computer systems by back office staff – a process that was extremely time-consuming and expensive. But then, the company began using the AMS platform to create mobile apps.
Some of the key business process improvements enabled by AMS’s business operating system (software) are:
- Inspections can now be done on the spot with the apps, and within minutes, the data is sent to AMS servers, which are then converted into Word documents and passed on to SGS customers
- Not only is this new process quicker, but means fewer possibilities for transcription or other human errors since the system is more automated
- That’s not all. The company has also used AMS to create an incident reporting tool to keep staff safer in real-time
Learn more about benefits of How to Automate Field Service Business Processes
Improvement of operational processes in the health sector
Another case study on the difference mobile platforms can make comes from the health sector.
The Taranaki region in the North Island has a very rural population, meaning public health nurses must travel significant distances to treat patients. Adopting AMS’s mobile technology has allowed Taranaki DHB staff to spend more taking care of people and less on paperwork.
It also means patient data can be quickly accessed in real-time, which helps nurses provide better care by knowing a patient’s medical history and updating that history with information from their visit.
The best business operating systems are ones that puts people first by getting rid of unnecessary tasks.
No matter your organisation’s industry or size, making the switch can make running things much easier – allowing more time to focus on your core business.
It’s a system designed to work for you and can mean the difference between just staying afloat and sailing ahead.
