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It’s an obvious core strategy to ensure that your customers are as happy as can be with both the service you offer, and, the products you deliver. You and your workforce know this, and will be targeted to ensure that the perception of the company is held in high regard.

Increased field service engineer productivity is the goal of every field service organisation. Simply put, greater field service engineer productivity results in shorter service visit durations, more service visits per day, and greater field service revenue. And most of that additional revenue flows straight to the bottom line as increased profit. So how can field service management software help?

Mention field service software to some bosses, and they’ll happily beam, seeing it as a source of good profits, high levels of customer satisfaction, and hassle-free sales revenues. But mention it to other bosses, and—well, let’s just say that experiences vary.

The word ‘stress’ is one that field service management businesses don’t use very often. Nevertheless, it’s a factor in just about all of their customer relationships. How so? Because at the point that a field service engineer arrives on site, stress is something that those customers are often experiencing. The good news: service management software can help.

If you want to see the productivity impact of field service management software, just look at how field service personnel spend their time. Simply put, the percentage of the working day actually spent on-site, repairing and maintaining equipment, can be alarmingly low. 

Every business wants to grow. Every business wants to strip out waste, and become more profitable. Every business wants to have happy and satisfied customers. And every business wants to have happy and productive employees. The key to achieving all this? In many cases, service management software.

These days across pretty much every industry, it is all about measurement. There is now a system and software package for every aspect of business. Clarity of information is essential for management and efficiency, streamlining the business to try and future-proof it, no matter what the economic outlook looks like.