Maybe this situation sounds familiar: Your approach to work order management has evolved over time. Your company started with paper, then graduated to spreadsheet templates, and then experimented with email. Maybe you even have software that has been cobbled together to help you manage and distribute work orders.\u00a0The only problem is that all of these solutions are far from perfect.<\/p>
All of these approaches can be used for work order management, but none of them are explicitly designed for this purpose. They have to be stitched together to provide the functionality users actually need, and for this reason, they rarely work the way users want. Work order management suffers, as a result, contributing to the\u00a020%-30% of revenue<\/a>\u00a0companies lose from inefficiency.<\/p> Transitioning from analog to digital tools is the right progression, but\u00a0just because a tool is digital doesn\u2019t mean it works the way you need it to<\/strong>. Precise work order management requires a dedicated solution. Consider all that you gain by moving to specialized software:<\/p> 1. Track changes across all users.<\/strong><\/p> Using paper or even spreadsheets to track work orders for a job can be cumbersome. Let’s say you have a contract to provide 50 hours of maintenance to a company. Paperwork is created each time a work order is issued, but that doesn\u2019t mean all information is integrated. One technician might perform 10 hours of work and another 15 hours. But it might not be clear to everyone that 25 hours have been fulfilled toward the contract.<\/p>