Digitising Real-time Management of 320 Field Sales Representatives
From 2.5 hours of manual reporting per day to 15 minutes, with full real-time field data.
- Industry
- Consumer goods distribution & retail
- Scale
- 320+ field sales representatives · 8 supervisors · 140+ customer locations
- Implementation Timeline
- Technologies Used
- GPS Mobile App · Real-time Dashboard · Route Optimisation · Push Notification
Problem
Before deployment, supervisors and operations management ran entirely on phone calls and Excel spreadsheets. Four core pain points blocked the ability to scale:
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Manual reporting consumed 2.5 hours per day of supervisor time. Supervisors had to call each of the 320 field staff members to collect location data and customer visit results, with no automated data capture.
- 2
Field data was delayed 24 to 48 hours. Management could only see yesterday's numbers when making today's dispatch decisions, leaving them completely blind to real-time activity.
- 3
Customer visit schedule compliance was only 61%, with no automated confirmation mechanism. When a rep missed a stop, no one knew until end of day or the following morning.
- 4
One supervisor could not effectively manage more than 8 field staff. Every expansion of the field team required proportional growth in supervisory headcount.
Solution
OKAXI designed and built an integrated field management platform in 8 weeks, fully replacing the phone-call and spreadsheet workflow:
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GPS mobile app with automatic check-in/check-out and real-time location verification. Field staff no longer need to call in reports because all data is captured automatically.
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Real-time supervisor dashboard: live map of all 320 representatives, continuously updated KPIs, and automated push alerts for schedule deviations, missed stops, or unexplained absences.
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Automated route planning module and digital route reports that fully replace paper-based reports and end-of-day summary calls.
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API integration with the existing ERP system: field route data automatically syncs into attendance tracking and commission payment calculations.
Measured Results,
Instead of spending 2.5 hours every morning calling staff to compile reports, I now open the dashboard at 8am and immediately see where all 320 representatives are, what they're doing, and which routes are running late.