Waltham, MA – August 29, 2011 – Bunzl Australia, a leading specialist distributor in Australia and New Zealand, today announced the release of their innovative field service mobile application, which was built using Pyxis Mobile’s agile mobile application development platform. The cross-device field service app enables Bunzl’s sales representatives to enter orders into their enterprise resource planning (ERP) system in real-time, dramatically reducing the time it takes to process orders and get shipments out to customers.
“Prior to developing our field service mobile application, our sales reps would spend their day visiting customers and writing down each of their orders using pen and paper. At night, they would spend hours manually entering each of these orders into the system,” said Geoff Reid, Group Computer Services Manager at Bunzl Australia. “Using the Pyxis Mobile platform, we were able to quickly and easily build a mobile app that eliminated these inefficiencies and has enabled our sales reps to enter this data in real time. This has sped up the ordering process by at least five to six hours, which has greatly increased our business productivity and overall customer satisfaction.”
Bunzl worked with authorized reseller LogicalTech, an experienced Australian IT company focused on delivering enterprise and corporate business solutions, to help improve the efficiency of their order processing system. LogicalTech is a certified integration partner of Pyxis Mobile, and regularly assists companies in implementing enterprise mobility strategies using Pyxis Mobile’s application development platform.
“Since becoming a certified integration partner of Pyxis Mobile, we’ve seen a tremendous demand for the company’s mobile application development software from many of our customers,” said Mike Walsh, General Manager of Business Development at LogicalTech. “A great deal of businesses don’t have the internal mobile expertise or the budget to hire an entire team of developers, so by using a tool that is fast, easy, and cost-effective, such as the Pyxis Mobile platform, these companies are able to move the development in-house, while still achieving all of their mobile initiatives.“
Leveraging LogicalTech’s expertise and knowledge of the Pyxis Mobile platform, Bunzl continues to explore all of the ways in which they can take advantage of the thousands of features that the platform has to offer. The Australian distributor is already planning their next mobile application release, which will include new features such as the ability for sales reps to access stock-on-hand figures and critical customer information from their newly implemented CRM system. Bunzl also has plans to extend their mobile application to the iPad so that their sales reps can view all of this crucial data on a larger screen.
As the global demand, from companies like Bunzl, for Pyxis Mobile’s application development software accelerates Pyxis Mobile continues to seek out additional resellers and system integrators in key markets around the world. By developing these strategic partnerships with IT consultants, such as LogicalTech, and providing them with training on how to best utilize the Pyxis Mobile platform, an increasing number of enterprises around the globe will have faster and easier access to this innovative technology.