5 Ways that Mobile App Can Transform Your Transportation Business

Enterprise App Development | Mobile App Development

We know well that a big portion of the workforce in logistics and transportation industries are always on the go and moving in various geographies and may be dispersed across the globe at the moment. Thus, the nature of work of these workers is inherently mobile. Therefore, their solutions must be with mobility and recent advancements in mobile and relevant technologies enable us to create completely bespoken mobile apps to meet such requirements. For instance, today mobile phones have several built-in technologies and capable of integrating others, and the following technologies are promising enough to support modern apps for logistics and transportation businesses.

• Built-in high resolution (High Megapixels) cameras
• Enough memory power, built-in and attached
• Scanners
• GPS capabilities
• RFID tagging capacities
• NFC enable
• Wi-Fi and other networks accessibility
• Voice recognition software
• Bluetooth enabled
• Real-time updates for web services and cloud services

With such arsenals of technologies and tools, Mobile App Development Company can create custom and innovative solutions for a range of logistics, freight management, transportation, and goods delivery businesses. Therefore, diehard efforts of mobile app development community can transform the future of transportation and logistics industries a lot. Let’s check top five possibilities and opportunities in this regard.

1^st: Enable to Locate Moving Workforce Precisely and in Real-time for Transportation Business

Human transportation industries and goods logistics industries have same headaches that to know whereabouts of their vehicles and employees are at a given moment. They want to track the movement of fleets and vehicles in real-time as well as monitor their business related activities remotely. Today we have advanced tracking technologies such as GPS, LBS, and Telematics to track moving vehicle anywhere on the planet with real-time updated data, history, and communication. However, built-in capabilities of mobile to provide GPS locations are enough in many instances to accomplish such tracking. Therefore, your mobile app can provide your transportation and logistics business the real-time location information with precisions. Your central office or headquarter can monitor activities and movements of your vehicles on Google Map or other Map services to track the path and sync it with your planning as well as given tasks to your workforce through your mobile app. Such enhanced visibility can bring substantial accountability among the workforce and can improve productivity with increased efficiencies along with the safety of moving staff.

nd: Eliminate Service Discrepancies in Your Transportation Business

Vehicles and Fleets or freights are running into unknown territories with possibilities of insecurity and safety concerns. Therefore, simple real-time tracking is not enough to combat with internal and external theft incidents, frauds, and such malpractices. In due course, mobile apps with additional features and functionality can help drivers, delivery assistants, and goods’ recipients to create proof of services. Camera with GPS capability can capture the images of goods delivery with time and location stamps. App at one hand helps to take the signature of recipients with location info for billing and reimbursement aims. Such active and smart steps can eliminate many of delivery and goods safety related discrepancies upfronts.  

rd: Easy Capturing of Job Details for Transportation Business

For job accountability and efficient work, moving industries have to rely on their employees out of their sights. For instance, they should capture key information such as expenses, mileage, vehicle health, surveys of consumers and recipients while operations are going on. Thus, customize mobile application can help your staff to capture all such info using mobile forms and other features in real-time without doing much data entry. Using the app, drivers, and other assisting staff can obtain real-time data and updates the central database to dig it further for analysis and improvements in services.

4^th: Easy HR & Payroll Management in Transportation Business

For moving staff, managing their payroll, overtime expenses, and expenses related vehicle and goods are daunting and always suspicious job with possibilities of discrepancies. Therefore, the mobile app can help industries to replace the old-fashioned jobs with manual time cards and sheets with mobile timesheets. Mobile apps can record the job hours of drivers and other staff with their log-in and log-out inputs. It eases computation of standard duty hours and overtimes with time and GPS-location stamps. Staff can produce real-time expenditure on vehicles and goods or relevant services with mobile app features and functionality to automate entire payroll and expenses management process.

5^th: Enable Real-time Job Assignment and Route Planning for Transportation Business

In old ways, fleet managers or vehicle management have to assign jobs to the drivers and other staff by making back and forth phone calls and keeping constant touch through only phones or messages on the web if possible. Now, with GPS-enabled mobile apps, management has eased to update drivers and other staff by a real-time updating interface with Map display capabilities. You can show your entire route of their journey on the live Map and assign a timeline for each destination point. Moreover, with instant and real-time notifications, you can receive or deliver messages regarding changes or updates in routes or jobs. Moreover, by watching traffic and forecasts by road or rail authorities, you can change your routes and improve their productivity as well as save additional costs on fuel and cut ideal time of vehicles or staff considerably. It improves overall efficiencies of day-to-day operation and efficiently tackles emergencies arising mid-ways.

Conclusion:

Mobile applications can transform the business scenario of transportation and logistics industries in multiple ways among them location awareness of vehicles and staff, proof of service, smart information gathering, payroll management, operation management, and other several aspects would be changed with it. However, creating functional yet affordable mobile app that can address bespoken needs of industry is not the job or newbie or freelancers, it needs a good teamwork and collaboration of talents, skills, and creativity. Are you looking for such desired team of mobile app developers, consider Mobile Application Development team at Addon Solutions as your savior to bring the expectations on the table for your transportation business? Let’s have some exchanges of words in this regard.