6 Top Considerations When Adopting Your Mobile Workforce Solution

Mobile workforce solutions provide a competitive advantage to enterprise companies, and in the process, redefine the way businesses manage their operations. Clients in multiple industries are using mobile solutions to be more agile and flexible, enabling their field engineers and technicians to have better access to information and respond quickly to customers' needs.

With workflow automation and digital innovation growing in field services, mobility is EVERYWHERE. As consumers, we have become more demanding for instant go-anywhere access, and in the field or on the plant floor it’s no different. Flexibility and convenience are must-have attributes for mobile enterprise solutions.

6 points to consider helping move your company towards a truly connected mobile workforce platform:

1. Mobility is about anytime, anywhere access to information.
   • It is critical that your mobility solution makes it possible to achieve this.
2. Fresh to market platforms and solutions offering everything under the sun may sound phenomenal, but only in theory.
   • Overly-complicated systems can be challenging to use so they should be avoided, worked around or ignored altogether.
   • Select a mobile workforce solution or connected workforce platform that is easy to use.
3. Mobile solutions should be agile.
   • With new technologies appearing daily, keeping up to speed with changes is essential for enterprise companies.
4. Time is money, as the saying goes.
   • Being able to deliver faster ROI is critical for mobility solutions. Implementations should be quick and straightforward, allowing users to maintain productivity.
   • Lengthy deployments defeat the objectives of improving the speed of processes which connected workforce platforms offer.
5. Ease of integration is an essential requirement. You don’t need to rework your whole plant maintenance solution.
   • With Innovapptive’s Connected Workforce Platform™ and RACE™ (Rapid App Configurator Engine) technology, you can achieve out-of-the-box integrations with SAP Plant Maintenance, geospatial systems and more that meet your unique business requirements.
6. The key to mobility solutions is “Mobile.”
   • It is critical for your chosen mobile workforce solution to work across a variety of digital devices (phones, tablets, handhelds, etc.) and different operating systems as well.

Innovapptive’s Connected Workforce Platform answers all the requirements, easily. Our platform helps asset-intensive organizations better connect executives, the back office, field technicians, plant operators, warehouse operators, and maintenance planners, to maximize revenues and profitability. Combining field-ready business applications that are device-agnostic, with the power of no-code configuration tools in RACE™, we provide a system of engagement that connects various ERP or enterprise back-end systems.

Join Innovapptive in Booth 1926 at Sapphire NOW May 7-9 in sunny Orlando, Florida. Our team of solution and industry experts will be available for demos and discussions on our next generation Connected Workforce Platform-which digitally connects your executives, your entire industrial workforce, and your back office to minimize plant outages and improve operational excellence.

Why are Oil and Mining companies embracing Supply Chain Visibility?

The oil and mining industries share a vociferous appetite for the capital where it can cost billions of dollars to develop a new oil field or mine. Once the asset is up and running, maximizing production and minimizing unplanned downtime is critical to driving a solid return on capital employed. Companies have used several levers to reduce unplanned downtime including better maintenance planning, honing business processes, improving data accuracy, deploying new technology, and not in the least the skill of people. However, one untapped area that has not received enough attention until recently is Supply Chain Management for Maintenance Repairs and Operations (MRO)  

Supply chains in the oil and mining industries tend to be long and complex. Nature has provided us with abundant natural resources but often in the more remote parts of the world, and often a long way from the warehouses where plant equipment is sourced. If you're drilling for oil in Mozambique or mining for copper in Indonesia then chances are that the much of the equipment and spare parts required will have started their journey in North America, Europe or China. Most industry players have found it challenging to manage these complex supply chains. If you don’t have the right part, in the right place, at the right time, then plant downtime increases with a potential multi-million dollar hit in lost production.

The diagram below shows a typical international supply chain for equipment and parts. It starts in the suppliers manufacturing facility many thousands of miles away and ends with a customer (in this case a welder) on an offshore production platform. The physical material flow is complex involving numerous different players, starting with the material supplier through transport companies, freight forwarders, shipping companies, customs brokers and warehouse operators. The associated information flow is equally complex with systems that don’t talk to each other, manual processes and disconnects. The question for the customer is simple “where are my pants?” but often the answer is “we don’t know”.   

       

Oil and mining companies have some existing tracking capabilities but very few have complete end-to-end supply chain visibility. For example, the major international freight forwarders have had track and trace solutions for many years that provide partial visibility. These solutions capture the date when the material was picked up from the supplier and track the international shipping leg. Freight forwarders will provide access to their customers into their track and trace systems but if the customer is using several different freight forwarders it can be difficult to get consolidated visibility on all inbound shipments, at any point in time.

Supply chain visibility is often lost when the material arrives in the destination country and responsibility for the shipment changes, based on the agreed terms. Many developing countries suffer from under capacity in port infrastructure and it may take longer for shipments to move through the port than on the international shipping leg! When the shipment finally clears customs, they often arrive at the receiving warehouse unannounced. This makes it difficult to plan warehouse operations and most importantly meet the Required Onsite Dates critical to the engineers working on maintenance activities. These gaps in supply chain visibility lead to an increase in equipment and asset downtime, by not having the right part in the right place at the right time. 

At Innovapptive we are starting to see oil and mining companies tackle the issue of opaque end-to-end supply chains. Companies are embracing different initiatives to close the supply chain visibility gaps:

International Track and Trace Solutions - There are several companies including the large ERP vendors who can now provide more holistic international tracking solutions across all suppliers and they can even track equipment and materials through the supplier’s internal production process. These initiatives require big supplier enablement programs and can be time-consuming and expensive to implement.

Mobile access to Freight Forwarder Track and Trace Solutions - An alternative and simpler option is to link into the existing tracking tools provided by the global freight forwarders. This can be done through a mobile device by entering the purchase order number or a tracking number and the user is immediately provided with the current location of the shipment.

Advanced Ship Notice (ASN) – Widely used in the retail sector, the ASN is a very useful document for a warehouse confirming the arrival date of materials. It allows the warehouse to better plan workload and provides firmer Required Onsite Dates to the end-user. The ASN can be automated using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) or at its most basic via an email confirmation.

Warehouse Visibility - In paper-based warehouse operations, physical activities and updates to the ERP system do not happen at the same time. For example, warehouse staff may have completed loading a container for the offshore shipment but the update in the ERP is done in the office a few hours later, by which time the material is already on its way. Mobile technology can be used to address this problem with warehouse staff transacting in the ERP system as soon as the physical activity is completed. This benefits warehouse managers and supervisors who now know exactly the status of all activities at any point in time. Additionally, engineers using mobile devices linked into the ERP system can track their order through the warehouse process and most importantly see when it’s going to arrive.

Outbound Track and Trace - From warehouse to the customer is the important “last mile” of a Supply Chain that could have started thousands of miles away. The “last mile” can be another black hole where company’s lose visibility of materials. This is also an area where using mobile devices can help. Driver and vehicle details can be captured including the loading completion date/time and departure date/time. Electronic Proof of Delivery (ePOD) can be used to track arrival at interim destinations and confirm receipt of the delivery. SAP’s Remote Logistics Management (available on mobile from Innovapptive) improves visibility of the outbound process all the way through to the offshore platform. Companies are also looking to get better inventory visibility in their offshore warehouses by using the same mobile technology that they use in their onshore warehouses.

Oil and mining companies are now showing a renewed focus on their MRO Supply Chains to get true end-to-end visibility. The prize is substantial through reduced plant downtime and increased production. Importantly, all the improvement opportunities described here are already available and based on existing technology. 

The Key to Maximizing Your Wrench Time

The money is in "efficiency" in maintenance organizations and the proof is in the pudding.

Many best-in-class manufacturing organizations relying on mobile employees have already learned how mobile apps and integrated back-end platforms can replace inefficient paper-based workflows. This has opened up a new world of effectiveness and productivity. Effective manufacturing organizations are ranking high on all spectrums: higher productivity, higher customer satisfaction levels, lower operating expenses, higher compliance levels and recognize more service revenue than the competition.

But tremendous profitability is not all that sets best-in-class manufacturing organizations apart from their competition. In fact, only a small percentage (22%) of organizations still rely heavily on paper-based forms, based on a study by the Aberdeen Group. Instead, a majority of manufacturing organizations have automated their paperwork, inventory management, dispatch, and other operations with mobile computers and printers—with fantastic results.

Manfacturing organizations are under steady pressure to increase efficiency and improve maintenance costs and lifecycle costs. Proactively identifying the right maintenance at the right time improves asset performance and assures regulatory compliance. Strategic asset management solutions drive continuous improvement and produce measurable results, improving your bottom-line.

Delivering ROI

Reactive maintenance and preventive maintenance programs are expensive. Additionally, they can also bring about issues with process and manufacturing reliability and performance. Organizations with a highly mobile maintenance workforce should integrate mobility into operational tasks to drive productivity and optimize costs.

Innovapptive’s Connected Workforce Platform empowers manufacturing organizations with the tools they need to provide a superior, personalized customer experience that boosts customer loyalty and creates new opportunities. Organizations give their customers (internal and external) convenient access to their billing, contracts, customer service, support calls, and insight on service disruptions. The solutions within the Connected Workforce Platform put visibility in organizations’ hands and empower highly productive, comprehensive environments leading to reduced service times, improved service quality and timeliness.

Improved wrench time is a key driver in Innovapptive’s Connected Workforce Platform. Innovapptive's mWorkOrder on-demand and role-based barcode scanning features allow field technicians, supervisors, planners to automate searching for parts, equipment, and history of equipment to doubling your wrench time. 

With Innovapptive's mWorkOrder with RACE™ Dynamics Forms, you can build robust mobile forms that will revolutionize your data capture - whether your objective is to improve productivity, increase visibility into operations, save time or gain data accuracy.

Lifting the Limits: Improving Your Workforce’s Wrench Time

Wrench time…Can it be improved?

Workforce efficiency in maintenance has a profound effect on the maintenance group’s costs and overall performance in any industry. It is safe to say, wrench time affects efficiency costs thus the overall costs for all organizations Can it be improved?

Research shows that maintenance workforce efficiencies can range from 18% – 74%, with inefficient operations being on the higher end of the spectrum of labor spend. Surveys estimate that the average wrench time within an efficient, or reactive, maintenance environment hovering around 30-35%. Breaking this down further: in an 8-hour day, there are only 2½ hours of actual hands-on wrench time or productive, or value-added, work.

A number of situations can impact wrench time of technician, such as

• Failure to have the right asset(s)/equipment available for the assigned technician(s) – due to the lack of visibility
• With limited visibilty, maintenance technicians are not able to plan for their routes and carry parts/tools they need for maintenance/repairs.
• Repeated travel back and forth from work site to the office/storeroom to collect parts, manuals, and assistance is time-consuming.  
• An issue reported to maintenance is wrong, due to various reasons such as ineffective paper-based processes, resulting in the wrong technician being dispatched to a job.  
• Unavailability of an asset’s maintenance history, equipment drawings, and details or service manuals for reference to conduct repairs.
• and more…

The cost of non-wrench time (5½ hours) leaves a great financial impact on the organization. That said, non-wrench activities are still necessary to get work done but are not considered factors in true wrench time.

For improving wrench time, it is essential for your organization to identify and eliminate barriers preventing your maintenance technicians from doing their jobs efficiently. One of the most effective ways to improve your technicians’ wrench time – streamline your organization’s planning and scheduling work order processes and improve strategies for preventive/proactive maintenance. Effective planning/scheduling processes help ensure that plant maintenance work is well planned, aiding in work orders being completed according to priorities.

To be more productive at work, your workforce needs to have the right information, such as asset details, along with maintenance history, real-time availability of maintenance parts/tools, and guiding instructions available in their hands. This increases your maintenance workforce’s productivity and reduces delays during jobs, thus increasing your bottom line.

Because of the mobile nature of the maintenance workforce, it is vital to equip your maintenance workforce with the right mobile workforce management solution. The “right” solution offers all the field-ready functionality necessary and connects their mobile workforce with your back office and other departments. Doing the right work, at the right time, with the right information and materials, in the right way will improve your technicians’ wrench time.  

Improving Wrench time with Mobile Plant Maintenance

The solution mWorkOrder – Mobile Plant Maintenance, offered by Innovapptive within the next generation Connected Workforce Platform, provides your maintenance technicians/workers anytime, anywhere access to the right information they need to do their jobs. mWorkOrder enables your workers to work safer, smarter and more productively. mWorkOrder‘s on-demand and role-based barcode scanning features allow field technicians, supervisors, planners to automate searching for parts, equipment, and history of equipment to maximize your wrench time.

Using mWorkOrder, planners/schedulers can create, update and view maintenance plans in real-time, and see where assets are located, accordingly. They can then assign work orders to technicians nearby. Also, supervisors are able to track performance and the start/stop times of technicians with the online/offline capabilities offered within mWorkOrder.

With the right information, your maintenance technicians’ productivity will increase – more completed work orders in a day result in improved wrench time. Having access to the right information along with material, equipment and exactly what tools they need for the job, will enable maintenance technicians to focus on their actual work, and complete work orders in their first visit.

Learn how Australia’s largest utility company utilizes Innovapptive’s mWorkOrder with RACE™ to optimize their maintenance planning, improve asset reliability, and save field workers time as they work on the go with real-time updates. Read their story here: https://bit.ly/2LWQXNQ

Delivering instant digitization framework to your field service

The demand for Geospatial-Intelligence has enhanced the GIS experience. How can enterprises succeed in using real-time data from SAP and GIS to streamline business processes? - drive additional ROI, with available time, provide situational awareness in the field, enable optimization and routing and more.

Recognized by GIA as a leading global enterprise mobility company. Innovapptive is channeling user experience within the SAP ecosystem since the past 4 years. It is focusing to accelerate the organization’s time to market value and reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO). The mobile apps are complemented by exclusive technology, platform-agnostic across all mobile operating systems, which allows infinite customizations through meek, non-complex configurations.

RACE ™ (Rapid App Configurator Engine) is the working phenomenon of Innovapptive’s technology. It provides the customer with an app with customized User Interface (UI) that perfectly matches with their business necessities. It Delivers an enhanced customer experience that provides a strong value proposition and improves the complete TCO and ROI with its easy configurable flexibility.

With the mission to Innovate, transform and Empower. Innovapptive is digitizing a large spectrum of global 2,000 customers. It is reaching across industries like Oil & Gas, Utilities, Life Sciences, Consumer Goods and Manufacturing.

With Critigen, the partnership has been forwarding towards providing GIS capability. The integration of ESRI GIS and SAP solutions is establishing support to the enterprise mobile ROI. Adding GIS to the field apps provide flexibility in work assignments for field teams, reduces error rates to enter work notes/records. Also improves usability and reduces training for mobile tools. Offline access to GIS information provides the managers and teams situational awareness in the field.

Having GIS integrated into the mobile apps drive additional ROI, with available time, workers easily identify additional work orders, notifications assigned to them or near them. Also, they get one-touch routing to job locations and the workers have both EAM information and engineering/ GIS information, offline. Integration to maps enables optimization and routing.

Mobile EAM Deployment, with RACE™ takes 8-10 weeks with a code-free admin tool kit to manage evolving business requirements. Across multiple mobile and web platforms, one tool to manage EAM processes reduces on-going maintenance costs by adapting to changes with ease.

The commingle of Innovapptive’s mWorkorder with Critigen Lemur benefits data alignment between GIS and SAP inherently and leverages current and future SAP geo-enablement. However, avoiding the offline GIS pitfalls is very necessary as the mobile device storage is often inadequate for the very large GIS data. Out of the box, ESRI offline/caching capabilities can crush production GIS infrastructure.

If you would like a demo of Innovapptive’s mWorkOrder (Mobile Workorder ) solution, please click on the link. Alternatively, if you would like to discuss with an Innovapptive solution expert, you can reach out to us by emailing us at sales@innovapptive.com or you can reach a sales representative at (713) 275-1804.

Delivering Cloud Based Pre-Packaged Mobile Business Solutions for Enterprises to Accelerate Their Mobile Investments’ Time to Market and Value

“Headquartered in Texas, USA, Innovapptive was named as the Top 20 most promising SAP Solution Providers by CIOReview.”

Leading industry analyst predictions over the last few years has now become a reality. The demand for mobile business solutions for enterprise is on the surge, as enterprises are constantly pressurized to reduce cost and find efficient ways to do more with less. Forward looking companies are turning to mobile technologies and User Experience (UX) transformation products to improve employee productivity, increase sales revenues, and eliminate redundant paper based processes – All in a pursuit to find new ways to perform real-time transactional business processing or decision making by accessing information anywhere, anytime. This surge in demand to work efficiently at a lower cost per employee is raising challenges to IT to find innovative ways to instantly mobilize this demand.

Innovapptive founded in the year 2012, is a fast growing enterprise mobile and user experience (UX) Solution Company and is an industry leader among rapid mobile application development (RMAD) solution providers. Its Rapid App Configurator Engine (RACE) technology redefines traditional approaches to digitize the enterprise and is empowering organizations to rapidly deliver ready to run mobile apps across lines of business and industry verticals. Innovapptive’s portfolio of over 100 mobile solutions run across a wide array of devices and systems and is creating a connected enterprise across employees, customers and suppliers.

Innovapptive products, at a glance

Mobile Supply Chain – Innovapptive’s mPower supply chain apps can be deployed on the cloud or on premise to rapidly mobilize and empower supply chain employees and managers.

Employees can request for goods/services, perform transactions in goods receipts/service entry sheets, track inventory movement and view stock overview and requirements list. Increase supplier collaboration and improve relationships by empowering them to view invoice payment status, inventory levels, demand, forecasts and perform order collaboration through a few clicks on a mobile device.

Mobile Human Resources – Innovapptive’s mPower HR apps can be deployed on the cloud or on premise to rapidly mobilize and empower employees and managers. The apps are tightly integrated with SAP HR modules and the Company’s mobile apps leverage the mobile native capabilities such as geo-coding, camera and bar coding capabilities to further automate sales force.

Mobile Sales – Generate more sales and get paid faster with the mPower Sales mobile apps integrated with SAP ERP and SAP CRM. These Smartphone and tablet apps give the sales team all the information they need to close a sale at a customer site. Quotes, orders, and payments are automatically linked to the backend SAP ERP system. Customers get real-time information from the field, while replacing paper forms and reducing the need for multi-step order processing.

Mobile Field Services – Leading the market needs continuous innovative ideas to gain customer satisfaction and retain existing customer base. Equipping field technicians with mobile apps that can view, execute and confirm customer services is the order of the day. mPowerTM apps suite from Innovapptive helps to efficiently organize, plan and dispatch resources in the field – creating a consistent customer service and expectations. Mobile apps from Innovapptive helps to integrate all field service processes, right from service planning and routing to order execution and billing.

Why Innovapptive for your SAP Mobile Initiatives?

Innovapptive’s proven SAP mobile solutions for some of the world’s largest Global 2000 companies is a testament of its capability of creating a compelling and powerful partnership with enterprises to achieve rapid mobilization. The team at Innovapptive brings a unique blend of SAP mobile products, business process acumen, SAP consulting experiences, and mobile technology experts to help organizations accelerate mobile journey.

The Committed to providing exceptional and cost effective SAP mobile products and services to customers to meet their strategic vision and goals around mobilizing their enterprise has cemented Innovapptive’s position as a dominant global leader within the SAP mobility space.

Innovapptive’s key differentiators

The Company leverages best-in-class people, processes and technology to ensure service delivery par excellence, they focus 100% on enterprise mobility, ensuring they deliver unparalleled value to customers, with numerous implementations under the Company’s belt, it is able to deploy solutions in days without compromising on quality and with proven global delivery capabilities, Innovapptive has successfully implemented mobile solutions across various continents setting them apart from their other competitors.

Client speaks

“Innovapptive has provided the highest degree of flexibility, scalability and service orientation to enable us to meet the strategic goals for some of our largest mobile initiatives. We believe that Innovapptive has the advantage of deep domain expertise and provides the industry’s best ROI for Enterprise mobile solutions” – Technology Director, Fortune 500 CPG Company

Know the Key Executive

Hari Kamineni, CEO and Co-Founder – Hari has been at the fore-front of innovation and the core foundation of Innovapptive’s product and innovation strategy. He brings extensive leadership and management experience to Innovapptive, with over 15 years of technology expertise in SAP solutions. Prior to founding Innovapptive, he was at IBM as a Senior Leader having managed several large global SAP business transformation projects and actively involved in customer sales pursuits. Hari has received multiple awards for Service Excellence and Outstanding Technology Achievement throughout his career. He has played a pivotal role in several of Innovapptive’s strategic partnerships and winning several awards such as the SAP Pinnacle Awards and SAP Mobile Apps challenges.

“We believe that our customer centric approach and passion for excellence with lower cost delivery and operations are what differentiates us from our competitors.”

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If you would like a demo of Innovapptive’s mobile solutions, please click on the link.  Alternatively, if you would like to discuss with an Innovapptive solution expert, you can reach out to us by emailing us at sales@innovapptive.com or you can reach a sales representative at (713) 275-1804.

Are your Fixed Assets Accurate in your Year End Financial Statements?

 

There’s often an element of error and financial misstatement, fixed assets reconciliation accuracy needs the appropriate attention of every financial controller and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Although several CFO’s believe that their fixed assets are represented accurately on their balance sheet, audits may yield a different answer.

Automated & periodic inventory of your fixed assets provide essential control and accuracy for the financial reporting of fixed assets. These best practices enhance proper accounting, valuation and financial reporting.

Increased Scrutiny Post-SOX era

Historically, executives have viewed fixed assets as having appropriate internal controls and low risk from a financial perspective. Now, in the post-SOX era and with broader IFRS adoption, fixed assets are often the biggest line item on the balance sheet and they are under greater scrutiny. Inferior records that contain ghost assets, grouped assets, vague descriptions, lack of physical inventory audit records and other data gaps, expose a business to risk in financial, tax, and regulatory compliance.

Common Challenges Reconciling Fixed Assets

Most organizations face significant challenges related to tracking the location, quantity, condition, maintenance and the depreciation status of their fixed assets. Typically fixed assets are recorded and maintained in either a spreadsheet, fixed asset register (FAR) or an ERP system like SAP. These records are then periodically verified through audit activities, such as physical inventory.

Financial misstatements are usually a result of company’s challenges and struggle with manual physical inventory processes globally. Manual paper based processes are extremely time consuming and cumbersome.

Solution: Streamline, Centralize & Automate Your Fixed Asset Physical Inventory & Reconciliation Process

A simple consumer grade mobile solution along with a fixed asset reconciliation scheduler and status monitoring capability can help automate the physical inventory & reconciliation process of your fixed assets. By integrating a mobile bar coding solution directly with SAP or any other back-end accounting system (online or offline mode) enterprises can centralize & automate their periodic fixed asset reconciliation.

A fixed asset reconciliation scheduler tool will allow your central asset management team to push fixed asset master records for reconciliation by location onto user’s mobile devices. The mobile device’s bar coding capability allows automation of fixed asset data such as location, status, check-in, check-outs and much more directly into your ERP system such as SAP. As a result, enterprises can witness the following business benefits by implementing such a solution:

• Over 40% improvement in employee productivity.
• Over 10-20% reduction in over payment of federal, state & property taxes.
• Over 15% reduction in insurance premiums by proactively identifying retired assets.
• Achieve 99% accuracy of fixed asset financial statements.
• 100% of global fixed assets reconciled to meet audit & regulatory requirements.

Innovapptive offers a comprehensive fixed asset tracking, geo-coding and reconciliation solution. The solution is highly configurable without any code changes. In as little as 4 weeks, large enterprises have started to automate their reconciliation of fixed assets by bridging the gap between global fixed asset locations and a centralized back office. You can request a demo by clicking here.

If you would like a demo of Innovapptive’s portfolio of Native or Web based mobile solutions, please click on the link. Alternatively, if you would like to discuss with an Innovapptive solution expert, you can reach out to us by emailing us at sales@innovapptive.com or you can reach a sales representative at (713) 275-1804.

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Govern new opportunities with the mobile ecosystem of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)

Turn your company’s asset management into a competitive advantage, that provides incomparable flexibility and predictive maintenance. Rudimentary activities, such as generating asset registries and composing maintenance operations, are budding into a more strategic and comprehensive, type of enterprise asset management that impacts all surfaces of an organization. It gives you the authority to improve enterprise asset management in ways that increase consistency, ensures regulatory compliance, reduces energy usage, and support sustainability initiatives.

Mobile offers an agile EAM platform, with its implementation you can monetize on ambient data, gain insight and secure consumers. It can praise and unify marketing channels to conduit the digital and labour-intensive worlds, and also monogram services. Also, secure atmosphere that provides steady inter-connectivity between devices and the entire infrastructure.

We live in the realm of apps, as it ensures us to take advantage of a robust set of services and accelerate transformation, life is just easier this way. It is certainly evident when we talk about challenges concerning to security, integration, governance, user experience and the skills that an assorted mobility platform entails. It is a prerequisite for organizations to shift their emphasis from working with isolated components to an integrated slant that looks at the mobile end-user experience and backpedals from there to integrate all the elements that contribute to this experience.

Enterprises can improve customer engagements using SAP mobile services. A higher level of
scoring is required to evolve in the business world, to unleash its complete value and continuity, for this SAP customers have a digital business framework that has a profound impact in the digital economy. Mobile apps from SAP provide entire portfolio of mobile solutions for enterprise asset management available.

Mobile Work Order Management: SAP customers can manage work orders and notifications anytime, anywhere, on a wide variety of mobile devices. Access to all relevant information increases safety and productivity in the plant and in the field, reduces unplanned downtime and maintenance backlogs, extends and improves asset life and consistency.

Mobile Rounds Management: Users can conduct inspections, take measurement readings, and create maintenance notifications on the spot as necessary to prevent production disruptions and delays. Mobile Platform Organizations can support mobile devices through a proven, scalable platform that includes built-in software support for enterprise-class security. This platform makes it easier to deploy, support, and manage multiple mobile devices and apps, allowing the enterprise to future-proof its mobile strategy.

SAP Plant Maintenance: The customers are assisted with asset-intensive enterprises that address the sole challenges in upholding their mission critical assets, which are generally distributed across geographies and are frequently located in remote areas. Safety is paramount, increased productivity is a major prerequisite while working in hazardous environments. Few industries of this sector include mining, oil & gas, energy, utilities, rail and transit. They face a typical set of encounters that need to be addressed to enhance their operational performance, efficiency, reliability and viability. SAP’s plant maintenance module can help addresses these challenges, drive value and much more.

Two big checkers for adopting mobile apps, that all companies must crisscross are making a business case for the technology and selecting the most advantageous areas for its implementation. A mobile enabled solution should shift the company to a more proactive state than a reactive one. Connecting your field to a more diverse data source that increases workforce productivity and reduces downtime is a strong feature of a good mobile EAM.

Mobility, is a component of a wider EAM system. It is scattering to places where Internet access is intermittent or non-existent. Mobility makes it easier for EAM necessities to make its way to the decision makers, who anticipate potential issues and to handle a wide range of EAM activities as quickly and efficiently as possible.

If you would like a demo of Innovapptive’s mobile solutions, please click on the link.  Alternatively, if you would like to discuss with an Innovapptive solution expert, you can reach out to us by emailing us at sales@innovapptive.com or you can reach a sales representative at (713) 275-1804.

Transformation is impossible, without Change – Keep your employees independent and satisfied

Employee Self-Service (ESS) is an increasingly prevalent trend in Human Resources Management that allows an employee to handle many job related tasks such as applications for reimbursement, updates to personal information and access to company information, which otherwise would have been in the custody of the management or the administrative staff. ESS software is available as a stand-alone product or as a component of some larger application, such as an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) product.
 

Focus on contributing to business goals
Eliminate unnecessary maintenance, deployment time, and cost
Successful Human Resources Management starts with securing sensitive information and empowering employees with self-service so you can focus more on your organization’s strategic initiatives. ESS processes increase employee’s productivity and simultaneously save costs. Allowing access to the employees online, companies can manage HR data remotely via internet, eliminating paperwork and unnecessary phone calls, while drastically reducing costs.

Growing numbers of companies are adopting employee self-service applications that reduce human resources paperwork and workload. This enables human resources staff to focus more on strategy and planning. In the small business realm, where owners and certain key employees wear multiple hats, shifting certain functions to workers through self-service applications can enable these key individuals to devote more of their energies to the company’s core business. The potential advantages of adopting employee self-service are wide ranging.

• Reduced paperwork for human resources departments, benefit administrators and employees.
• Fewer mundane, clerical-type tasks for human resources benefits staffers, both management and administrative, which frees them up for planning, strategy, communications development, etc.
• Potential for reducing administrative staff headcount.
• Increased transaction accuracy, due to reduced paperwork and the ability of self-service systems to recognize and catch certain types of data entry errors.
• Possibility of employee education and communications, by directing employees to definitions of terms, overviews of plan provisions, and associated learning resources.
• Opportunity for employee engagement.

Stay ahead -Empower Self Service HR

Change can be hard. But it’s worth it. Do it right and the results should be to achieve an end-to-end interoperable, streamlined workflow; integrated processes and capabilities across all HR activities on one platform. In other words, employees can get to what they want faster and HR can forget workarounds between incompatible systems and focus on what it should be doing, adding strategic value.

Companies need Talent Management and HR systems that are strong enough to meet their workforce needs today, but innovative and flexible enough to adapt as their business evolves and grows. With global competition and market pressure escalating, it’s more important than ever to have modern human capital solutions that are up to the challenge. Self-service helps HR do more with less, and means that they can concentrate on doing more important work such as focusing more on talent strategy to hire and retain employees. This reduces HR operating costs and help move the department from a cost centre to profit centre.

The future is mobile

Today, mobile apps range from the mawkish to the highly functional phenomenon and they’re having a very real impact on the face of human resources and employee self-service. ESS mobile apps are available for every level of employee, from your human resource officers to basic employees, and they provide a wide range of different benefits and uses. Using an ESS mobile app unlocks a world of different possibilities for your business and your employees and provides you with a lot of benefits.

• ESS mobile apps allow employees to clock in and out of work from their smart phones and feature GPS functionality to ensure honesty.
• It allows workers to monitor their own salary and payroll information without bothering the human resources department.
• Employees can use the app to submit leave requests to the HR department and to receive responses. They can also review their history of leave and attendance information.
• Employee benefits can be self-managed through the use of these apps.
• Employees of larger companies can access the employee directory through these apps and find the person they need to locate quickly.
• Managers may even be able to use these mobile apps to view applicant data and review applications.

During the journey of Digital Transformation. What gives is higher productivity, better profits, lower costs and most of all employee satisfaction. It really is possible to save money and improve delivery by pushing transactional HR into a self-service environment, but when starting down that road, ensure you give yourself enough time to plan, that your technology integrates seamlessly, and that your implementation team has the complex skills it needs to do the job.

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Go mobile in less than 4 weeks with mEmployee

Innovapptive’s SAP certified mobile Employee Self-Service app (mEmployee) offers the freedom of consolidating all HR related apps on the store into one single unified SAP HR ESS mobile app. This app creates a single and a secure mobile repository for confidential HR information and processes. It provides an easy-to-navigate environment that is accessible by all employees, regardless of where they are located, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Mobile app’s access rights for each employee are established by HR and can be configured based on employee’s position in the company’s organizational hierarchy, department, and key job functions.

Leverage mEmployee mobile app for “Success Factors” to ensure an intuitive HR experience to your employees, while providing them access to critical HR data to help them process a series of transactions, anywhere, anytime. The mobile solution for SAP’s Success Factors (SFSF) HCM suite is aimed to redefine HR success and enhance the overall productivity of the employees that is critical in today’s competitive world. mEmployee’s integration with SAP’s SFSF takes the HR experience to the next level, offering the best of both worlds, it provides truly device and platform agnostic functionality, full native support on all major mobile OS and browser access through SAP Fiori Launchpad, at no additional cost. It offers cross-company employee project collaboration, ensuring seamless communication mechanism across different stakeholders including employees, managers and experts. It also enables employees to collaborate around relevant business content, thereby increasing productivity by helping them stay connected with people, even when they are away from the office. It provides secure access to your data anytime, anywhere. SFSF leverages industry standard authentication, data transport protocols and encryption.
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Our Unique Value Proposition – RACE ™

Our Mobile Portfolio, Rapid App Configurator Engine (RACE) powered by the SAP HANA Cloud Platform with embedded licenses allows our customers to accelerate and execute their SAP Enterprise mobile strategy, while benefiting from a compelling ROI. Innovapptive’s mEmployee solution comes built-in with our configuration toolkit RACE that empowers your IT teams to achieve infinite number of customizations of the mobile apps within minutes, translating to 40% of operational efficiency. It offers high level agility and flexibility that helps in accelerating your enterprise’s time to market without becoming a bottleneck. The simplicity in customizing SAP mobile solutions provides a strong value proposition and dramatically improves the overall TCO and ROI, thereby enhancing the overall customer experience to the next level.

Finishing with these advantages, that truly are materializing for organizations using employee self-service tools. The use of employee self-service has had an appreciable impact on human resource service delivery and a tangible return on the investment in applications and technology. As more aspects of everyday life turn to self-service, we’ve grown accustomed to doing tasks for ourselves. Workers, therefore, are accepting, even welcoming, the ability to control numerous benefits tasks that previously were done by others. Seeing that this move has efficiency and financial advantages for business, it’s likely that employee self-service applications will continue to grow.

If you would like a demo of Innovapptive’s mEmployee(Mobile Employee Self Service) solution, please click on the link. Alternatively, if you would like to discuss with an Innovapptive solution expert, you can reach out to us by emailing us at sales@innovapptive.com or you can reach a sales representative at (713) 275-1804.