Meet the New Mobile Workers

CASE # 2

MEET THE NEW MOBILE WORKERS.

Nowadays, there are many employees and managers that perform their jobs using mobile phones and tablets. Therefore, companies are enhancing their security systems to allow access for corporate network. The extensive applications have been developed to take advantage of all the possibilities of the device.  

McClendon's Select, a Peoria-based organic family-run farm, relies on iPad for each stage of its operation process from planting fields to selling products at farmers' markets. Mobile technology (Web-based COG Pro management system) helps to handle the careful record-keeping required to sustain an organic certification and update records of seed types as well as where and when they're planted.

Each employee on the farm works with iPad and uses patented app called Picker Entry to generate a list of products to collect in the field based on online orders placed by restaurants and consumers. These app simplifies the working process and the process of the ordering a product by generating a report with description. It assures a high level of order accuracy which helps to preserve remaining customers (restaurants) and attract the new once. At the beginning before using the mobile technology it took a lot of paperwork as well as huge time to complete an order, now it’s just “push of a button”.

Not only the small businesses faced that kind of problem, global companies such as PepsiCo had the same issue too. They created a custom in-house app for the iPhone called Power4Merch, which immediately notifies merchandisers when a driver has arrived at a store. Another interesting fact to notice is that PepsiCo managers use iPads with custom applications to monitor their teams' performance; pull up pricing and contracts; and help coordinate deliveries with merchandising. PepsiCo's iPhone and iPad systems are integrated with its established corporate information systems.