By FieldCircle

04/03/2020 If your landscaping projects are getting extended beyond the estimated time frame then targeting new projects becomes a challenge as the existing projects keep the resources, tools, and equipment blocked for a longer period. Thus, timely completion of a landscaping project is of pivotal importance but lack of on-site visibility, compromised workforce monitoring and productivity leaks are the main reasons that lead to delay in project completion.

Adopting field performance management technologies such as a landscape business management software can provide you with a bird's eye view of on-site activities such as employees' attendance, productive hours, job updates, job accountability, real-time location, etc. This considerably helps in time management.

Upgrade Operating Procedures

Is your team spending its time productively on role-specific activities or their productive hours are getting leaked because of mundane and repetitive administrative tasks? Jobs such as job scheduling, reporting, collaboration, maintaining timesheets, pulling data from different platforms to build reports, etc. are important but there is no point of wasting too many hours on it as a move to automation will handle these repetitive tasks much efficiently. Thus, it will free up time so that the team can be more productive in their roles. Also, the software can track the real-time locations of the field agents, so it also helps in enforcing accountability among the employees.

Enhance Team's Efficiency:

The profitability of your landscaping business is dependent on how efficient your team is. Skills training is important but it is not the only requirement for building the efficiency of the workforce. To be efficient, the team also needs the right support systems that can help them maintain a good work-life balance. The landscape management software helps in providing those support systems in the following ways:

• Reduces the travel time for your field agents by mapping the shortest route that avoids detours and traffic jams
• Enables them to have a more streamlined and real-time collaboration with the back-office
• Provides them real-time access to all the necessary information such client details, service contract & quotations, project portfolios, etc through a cloud-based data repository- a common platform for all types of data
• Keeps the field agents well informed about the workflow through push notifications and reminders
• Enables them to remotely handle their self-services such as attendance, reimbursement claim, timesheet filing, leave requests, job-shift updates, etc.

Streamline Management Costs

Inventory stock status, last month employee performance report, available staff members for this month, budget estimation, available leads, without such data business strategies can't be built. The software is an easy way to quickly get hands-on such data, necessary for various business-related decision making. The software is like a system for employees, which they can access from anywhere to upload as well as download data to keep all information synchronized. Also, the software comes with smart analytics that can utilize these data to create visually descriptive automated reports

In a Nutshell

Landscape business management software is an automation-enabled IT solution that is designed to help you cut costs, be productive and focus on profit-making. It helps to increase business by boosting the bottom line of your operational efficiency, such as it helps your team save time that gets wasted on unwanted administrative tasks. With more time on hand, the workforce can stay more focused on their role-specific jobs and have better operational efficiency.