ENGINEERING & SURVEYING

Those running mobile workforces – from surveyors to field engineers – have long struggled with developing a simple, clear, cohesive picture of individual worker’s time and activity.

Disparate systems, from user-completed jobsheets to GPS trackers, make for unreliable data silos that require often tortuous and lengthy cross-referencing and reconciling to generate a unified record of time spent – how much, where and on what. Even then, with user entry always susceptible to manipulation or fudging, there are no guarantees of a 100% accurate picture. But without this hard information, without the consequent insight, how do you know what’s really involved in delivering your service? How do you know whether a contract is performing? How do you price competitively when you are running blind to the cost of doing business?

Capturing the inputs/outputs of professionals in the field – how much time they spend and what they achieve in that time, be that chargeable or non-chargeable – is a fundamental part of the ‘how’ challenge. Aggregating it with associated data sets to give a joined up, 360° view of workforce activity is another. That’s why we’ve developed Rekoop to not just effortlessly track and record time, but to meld and analyse all relevant data sets to give firms full visibility of their cost base.