It’s a wise adage that even small amounts of housekeeping can go a long way in keeping things shipshape. Likewise, internal and external refining processes can streamline field service operations, improve service-to-cash cycles, and boost service P&L.
Improving service P&L is pivotal in our post-pandemic world, which finds inflationary pressures on pricing, economic uncertainty, and other geopolitical and social tensions at play. Upgrading and bettering an organization’s service-to-cash cycle is even more vital in these unprecedented times. From how field representatives and technicians communicate to invoices and workflow management, now is an excellent time to confront any challenges with internal and external processes that might be holding a company back.
Applying Digitalization to Customer and Asset Data
Lack of digitalization is one of the most significant factors causing long service-to-cash cycles. It’s important to remember that there is a significant difference between types of digitalization. When addressing digitalization, we are talking about applying digitalization to customer and asset data. Technicians and field service operators are great diplomats out in the field, simultaneously serving clients and businesses. Giving them the best tools will help them increase productivity, as well as sales and bottom line.
Digitalization prevents revenue leakage, avoids redundant documentation, and quickens workflow. This eliminates inefficient and flabby legacy processes that no longer serve the customer, field technician, customer service, and the bottom line.
Reduce Cost Redundancies While Improving Efficiency
Training field service teams in new digitalization modes will improve customer service and billing at the site and reduce redundancies before getting to the site itself. A clear view of a client’s warranty and history of service helps technicians improve service and overall effectiveness. This satisfies customers as well as ledgers. In addition, digitalization keeps jobs efficient without technicians having to go to a site twice, which also saves on ever-increasing fuel costs.
Benefits of Digitalization in Speeding Up the Service-to-Cash Cycle
Investing in field service software solutions is a proven way to establish more efficient service-to-cash cycles. In field service technology, effective parts management through digitalization is a sometimes-overlooked route to faster service-to-cash cycles and improving overall solid performance.
Ultimately, streamlining processes and improving service-to-cash cycles comes down to using state-of-the-art field service management (FSM) tools, such as Gomocha’s FMP360, for real digitalization that enables all aspects of a business to run more smoothly. These FSM technologies can give leadership a fairer shake at the board table and allow the inclusion of financial benefits in presentations. Digitalization will increase first-time fix rates and increase consumable revenue from the field and the capabilities of your technicians by empowering them with critical data.
Digitalization has numerous benefits beyond analogs. It makes way for faster service-to-cash cycles while arming workers with the real-world tools they need to compete in today’s rocky terrain.
Gomocha’s FMP360 field service platform and mobile app gives organizations the tools to carry out business processes easily and develop more efficient service-to-cash cycles. Gomocha solutions fully support back-office, mid-office, and mobile-office employees. Get started simplifying and streamlining your business’s operations with FMP360.