Every successful project is measured by the team leader’s ability to complete the project on time and on budget. To be successful means one must manage multiple tasks, identify critical and non-critical paths within the project itself and always have a pulse on what’s needed, when it’s needed. This means to have insight into existing material requirements, future shipments of raw materials and parts and advance warning of inventory stock outs. It’s about having a window of opportunity and seizing on that opportunity to make the right business decisions. Regardless of whether you’re the project manager at the job site, the integrator managing multiple vendors or the value-added reseller trying to distinguish your product offering, if you work at remote locations, having the right enterprise mobility hardware is of paramount importance to success.
The need for rugged mobile computers
When decisions must be made immediately, and customers need answers, there just isn’t any time to wait for confirmations from the head office. There isn’t any time to wait for delivery information about a critical part. There isn’t any time to site idly by while warehouse personnel check inventory, check receipts and provide updates on delivery. Project managers and team leaders can’t afford to wait for someone to find the time to get back to them with the information they need. Project managers must be able to reconcile onsite materials and finished goods, all the while coordinating the delivery of new vital components. The right hand held computer can mean the difference between making a decision that maintains the project’s budget and blowing that budget out of the water!
Your mobile business applications must be far-reaching!
Working in difficult environments is simply no excuse for not delivering what your company promised. While managing the project is one aspect of success, another is to ensure that your entire mobile business application is seamless, intertwined and supported by an in-house support structure, a structure that provides employees at remote locations with up-to-the-minute information about deliveries, pickups and drop-offs. Success means having a rugged hand held computer that provides team leaders and members with the information they need, when they need it.
Reducing the impact of inaccurate inventory counts
One of inventory’s biggest cost drivers is the incidence of purchasing more than needed due to inaccurate inventory counts. In some instances, it’s the result of poor counting methods. However, in most cases it’s merely the result of not having a system that ties remote location material volumes with what’s available back at the warehouse. Enterprise mobility hardware works when it provides project managers with accurate information about existing material, future consumption and current inventory counts. The alternative involves making assumptions on inventory, and that rarely produces results.
Today’s project manager and integrator must be able to make immediate decisions. That can only happen if they have the right information. Success depends upon having access to real-time data concerning inventory levels, schedules, pickups and raw material requirements. The right mobility hardware solution can provide your company’s management team with the information they need to finish the project on time, on budget and to deliver what you promised.