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2011 SWEDE. Leveraging Existing Software and Technologies for Mobile Workforce Management. By: Doug Lambert. Agenda. What Define the Scope Why Why do we need Mobile Workforce Management? How Leveraging existing software Who Define the ‘players’ The Process How did we get here?
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2011 SWEDE Leveraging Existing Software and Technologies for Mobile Workforce Management By: Doug Lambert
Agenda • What • Define the Scope • Why • Why do we need Mobile Workforce Management? • How • Leveraging existing software • Who • Define the ‘players’ • The Process • How did we get here? • The future • Where are we going now?
Scope • Mobile Workforce Management - Providing information exchange to and from the field in a digital near real-time environment for assisting with assignment and completion of tasks/work. • Implement a mobile workforce management solution to reduce paper shuffle and improve customer service.
Why • Streamline processes • Reduce Costs • Fuel • Equipment • Labor • Improve Member Service • Faster response times • Empower the employee • “Work Smarter not harder” • “Green Solution” • Less fossil fuels burned • Paper reduction
How • Evaluated ‘off the shelf’ solutions from existing vendors. • $$$$$ • Change/Change/and more change… • Custom • Lack of integration • “Small little Coop” attitude • Heavy admin work
My ‘A-Ha!’ moment • Leveraging existing software • Pieces of the puzzle • 90% of the solution exists • ‘tie them together’
The Players Milsoft’s OMS NISC’s CIS with Service Orders Milsoft’s Assessment MS SQL Code by Doug Lambert Milsoft Unplugged Field Mapviewer Notification System by Doug Lambert MS SQL SP Integrated Automatic Vehicle Location
Advantages • Fits SBEC Needs • No Learning applications/processes/software • No Purchase of additional software • No annual maintenance fees • Minimal change on Employees • Buy-in at all levels • Users have a say!
Bottom Line Savings *Figures vary depending on which MWM software vendor we might have used otherwise.
Questions? Doug Lambert San Bernard Electric Cooperative, Inc. dlambert@sbec.org (979)865-3171