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What’s under the hood is important!

In today’s technology marketplace, having the correct software is important. But what is just as important is the technology underneath the covers. Having industry standard technology assures you that your program will be robust and work in the field.

As changes occur to operating systems in both handhelds and desktop environments, standardization allows for smooth and easy upgrading. Managing and supporting those environments and the data in them also is facilitated through standardized components.

At bMobile, we use these standard components in all of our products. Our database is Microsoft SQL and we program in common languages and frameworks. The handhelds utilize SQL and the Windows Mobile operating system. We are constantly improving, learning, experimenting, and testing new technologies to make sure that we are abreast of the industry and in compliance with those industry standards.

The hardware that we help our customers chose is just as important and must also conform to industry standards. We use devices from major manufacturers such as Symbol, Intermec, Zebra, and Printek. By using these companies, our customers can rest assured that should a hardware repair be needed, it can be processed quickly with little disruption to daily business.

We believe that every business is important and nobody should have to use sub-standard equipment or software. Your business is your life blood and should run on only the best, most reliable components. bMobile knows that our solution will improve your business and that having industry standards gives us both piece of mind.

Michael Monnot, bMobile

Retail Stores love DSD, especially large chains. What they love even more than DSD is Full Service DSD. This is when the distributor delivers products store by store and services the account. In other words, cleans the shelves or displays, merchandises the product, hangs pricing, displays and other point of sale material and then goes to the next account.

Stores love DSD because the distributor does all the work for them and because they never run out of product. If the distributor does a good job, the retailer will always be fully stocked with product at all times.

Now how do you know what to load on your truck for the day when there is no presale? That’s where bMobile Route Manager comes in. bMobile Route Manager is a solution that takes the guess work and math out of DSD. Imagine managing the inventory on your truck to the level that you never send out too little or too much on the truck. bMobile can help you figure that perfect amount to load on your truck, saving you time, fuel, and most importantly, making sure your customer always has full shelves.

When considering the style or type of PDA that you are planning on using out in the field for your daily sales, you need to take into consideration your plans for using bar code labels and scanning those labels.

Two devices that have built in laser scanners are the Intermec CN3 and the Symbol MC-70. I recommend purchasing a device that has a built in scanner because the labels that are being read aren’t always clears and straight, these devices will read labels that are damaged or poorly printed.

Another reason to look at a rugged style PDA is the fact that the scanner is then protected from damage during a drop onto the concrete floor or parking lot.

Ken Weirum, Sales

I’m Chris Macaw, CEO and owner of bMobile Technology. We are the makers of bMobile Route Manager, a popular route management solution for the small to medium sized distributor. We realize that success for our customers is not always measured in sales dollars, but more in customer growth, profitability, and appreciation.

bMobile not only helps small companies attain those goals, but also larger ones to organize and control everyday business. For example, we have a major Pepsi distributor in the Northeast that does nearly $400,000 a week in business through our system. While that is a telling statistic, my return on investment for creating bMobile is when a delivery driver explains that our software makes his day easier and allows him to spend more time with his family.

Improvements happen at all ends of the business spectrum when technology like bMobile Route Manager is implemented. I look at Great Basin Beverage in Boise, Idaho, who started with 3 inexpensive PDA devices. In less than a year they have doubled in size, gotten their inventory under control, and rely completely on the technology to assure that invoices are priced correctly and never re-entered by hand into the system. Human errors have been virtually eliminated and now they are able to bring on additional accounts due to the time they have reclaimed by using bMobile Route Manager.

Our challenges for the coming year include continuing to add customers to bMobile and increasing the functionality to help overcome any route management problem. We already interface to QuickBooks, the most popular accounting software on the market. And now our integrations to Cougar Mountain and SAP Business One have opened up our route system to even more businesses.

Chris Macaw