There are broad opportunities for mobility within the enterprise. For blue- and gray collar workers (direct or contractors), as well as white-collar workers, some of the highest value solutions are:

Warehouse and Distribution

Mobility solutions using voice can be used in the warehouse for piece, case and pallet-pick operations; receiving; put-away; let-down/replenishment; load building; transfers; flow-through; and cycle count activities.

Enterprise Asset Management

Addresses routine inspections and reporting on large-scale infrastructures or critical devices. Frequently includes asset performance, monitoring, calibration, maintaining, in-field work order creation, status updates, repair resolution, regulatory compliance reporting, inventory updates, and more. Solutions can capture a variety or location attributes, including GPS, State Plane Coordinate Systems and street addresses.

Yard Management

Mobility solution that allows for the easy management of reserve goods storage – e.g., trailers stored in the yard with product on them.

Field Service Management

Work management solutions, from ticket dispatch to closure. Frequently includes scheduling, dispatch management, order management, work progress, warranty/SLA entitlements, automated arrival notifications, rescheduling options, technician workflow, test requests, new charge items (field billing), time and expense reporting, and parts replenishment.

Inspections, Audits, and Regulatory Reporting

Mobility Solutions that provide tracking of field personnel or mission critical safety systems.

Sales Force Automation

Solutions that allow your remote sales people complete contact opportunity updates via voice. All they have to do is call in and update the fields they have new information on – and all updates are done in real-time

Planned Outage Management

Addresses routine inspections and reporting on large-scale infrastructures or critical devices. It’s better to have real-time information and fix it with a planned outage than have an unplanned outage and have to take critical devices off-line immediately.

Unplanned and Crisis Management

Provides for field assessments during unplanned events, including scouting to determine needs and management of hastily-assembled emergency workforces (including foreign work crews).

Facility Management

Enable real-time parts information, as enterprises migrate from static supply chain models to fluid/dynamic ones. Mobility provides capture of critical SCM data, improved

Human Capital Management

Contractor management and/or time and expense management for billable services – the timely capture of personnel reporting data for employees or foreign workers, particularly when staff is in transit.