Mobile computer repair as a contracted service has proven many times to be the difference between warehouse workflows staying consistent or failing whenever there is a problem with hardware.
That’s in large part to the way mobile computers have helped to reshape the workforce over the previous few decades. In the past, warehouses and the brands that owned (or worked with) them would be linked by paper and phone calls.
That process has changed in such a short period of time, driven mainly by the Internet of Things. Now, comms between the warehouse and other departments been improved thanks to smartphones and social software.
Advancements in mobile hardware, too, have allowed new workflows and processes to build greater understanding between all areas of a business, and introduce more optimised work processes and systems to warehouse teams to improve efficiency.
This is why mobile computer repair on a contractual basis can be critical. Because so much has advanced so quickly in such a short space of time, a lot of warehouses are now vastly reliant on mobile technology and the systems built around it to keep going.
If that hardware has an issue for whatever reason – whether through a physical breakage, by freezing, by the operating system malfunctioning – then the impact is as dramatic as having to go back to working with paper until a mobile computer repair service has fixed it.
Again, the reliance of the functioning hardware on tightly-optimised workflows should never be underestimated. Neither should the impact broken hardware will have on efficiency – not just in the warehouse but on those other linked departments and the wider business.
Mobile computers can be costly, too – and for good reason. The time savings and efficiency solutions they can bring to warehouses more than justifies their cost. Not taking care of them, updating them, and even waiting until they break can be a costly decision in the long-term.
Not just in a time or disruption sense, either. New mobile computer terminals from esteemed brands such as Zebra, Honeywell, Toshiba, Datalogic and others can be pricey, and constantly having to order new units and have them delivered to the warehouse can cost the environment, too.
A contracted mobile computer repair service can help keep those financial and environmental costs down. By continually evaluating, optimising and fixing your mobile hardware on a regular basis, it ensures the minimum of disruption to workflows for now and into the future.
That service will also have similar, restored back-up units for workers to access should the unexpected happen, and a number of units break down at once.
The service will also be able to repurpose old hardware, too, to improve a brand’s carbon footprint, by restoring them and reintroducing them into the circular economy.
When it comes to software, content, websites and other things that make use of the internet, it always pays to have a back-up prepared in case of an accident. The same should be true for the workflows in your warehouse – something a bespoke mobile computer repair service provides.
