Happy New Year!

Posted on 04 January 2012

From everyone at Codegate may we wish you and yours a healthy, happy and peaceful New Year.

If the pundits are to be believed 2012 will see the full effect of government cut backs, tax increases and higher commodity prices taking money away from the pockets of the consumer. At least inflation is predicted to slow from its current high of nearly 5% to nearer the Bank of England target of 2% within twelve months, giving the consumer a little respite. So how do you prepare your business for the worst?

Obviously it will be essential to minimise overheads without sacrificing efficiency, and to maximise the return on every GB£ invested, but how?

If some of your workforces are mobile, performing customer visits or maintaining plant ‘in the field’, or are employed in the supply chain, or in logistics, Codegate can help. Our unique software and hardware solutions enable our customers to beat the competition by:

• Minimising invoice disputes through open and transparent business transactions
• Avoid Service Level Agreement penalties by providing undisputable evidence of compliance
• Providing on-line transaction history and viewing of progress, minimising return visits
• Increase efficiency by reducing the employee’s administration overhead, allowing more visits per man/day
• Reduce mobile inventory by showing what stock is available and where
• Minimise employment costs through “where’s my nearest…” web portal view of staff availability
• Ensuring employee protection by including “lone worker” reporting concepts
• Minimising your corporate carbon footprint by integrating navigation and optimising routing instructions
• Providing evidence of corporate compliance with Health & Safety and Working Time Directives

As you can see this isn’t just about saving money, it’s about creating and maximising profit at a time when profit will be hard to come by. By enabling your staff to become “trusted experts” with their customers, loyalty is increased, making it more difficult for the “cheapest price” competitor to match your add value proposition. As a result, you win more competitive bids, increasing profits.

Imagine increasing your market share while your competitors contract, staying profitable while they make losses, expanding – against the trend. For sixteen years, companies employing mobile workforces to ensure they can monitor and measure field operations, enabling managers to maximise efficiency and minimise costs to give a better bottom line, have used Codegate’s software. That’s what makes our customers talk about us the way they do, but don’t take my word for it, read their words here.

Do you have a better plan for beating the competition and maximising your return in what may be the second dip of a recession?  If you have I’m interested in your thoughts, leave a comment below. Of course, if you’d like to discuss a possible mobile computer soultion for deployment in your business, drop me an email or call the office on +44 (0)845 345 0808.