How to Incorporate Environmentally-Friendly Practices in Your Field Service Business

JeevanEnvironment, Field Service

Many companies in the field service space are becoming aware of their impact on the environment. It is important to reduce your environmental impact, whether you are a small business or support thousands of employees. Field service businesses in particular can adopt application or software-based solutions that will allow them to achieve their environmentally-friendly business goals. 

Invoicing, scheduling, work orders, customer details, and inventory are commonly managed using paper processes, and this can amount to tons and tons of paper usage. Additionally, inefficient routing can cause longer trips, ultimately affecting the environment.

In this blog we will discuss how you can incorporate environmentally friendly practices into your field service operations with field service management software.

Getting rid of paper-processes

Admin tasks from scheduling to inventory management are traditionally maintained using paper-processes. When jobs pick up and more documents are created, folders and folders of paperwork may pile up, leaving a negative impact on the environment. For field service businesses, an easy solution to replace paper processes is to implement a field service management software. With scheduling, work order management, customer history, inventory tracking, and many more admin activities done on a cloud-based platform, paper use is eliminated. Using a field service management software to complete admin tasks greatly reduces your negative impact to the environment as a field service business. 

Using optimal routing

Field technicians typically spend sizable amounts of time on the road, driving to and from job-sites. Long periods of time spent driving trucks and large vans contribute to emissions of air pollution as well as fuel consumption, negatively impacting the environment. Optimal routing features, that come with adopting a field service management software, allow field technicians to take the shortest, more efficient routes to and from jobs. GPS-focused mapping and route creation make the task of reducing your emissions much easier.

Going cloud-based

Storing important documents and information in the cloud eliminates the need for folders of paper. Not only do paper processes create problems in accessing and locating important information, they contribute to a negative impact on the environment. Customer history, work order information, and inventory tracking information can all be stored in the database of a cloud-based field service management software, removing the need for paper. A cloud-based software helps your field service business take responsibility for your environmental impact and reduce it.

ServiceEcho is the cloud-based field service management software that your business can use to reduce your negative impact on the environment. Our software puts traditional paper processes in the past and allows you to put all important documents and information in one database. To learn more about ServiceEcho and how you can do your role in reducing your carbon footprint, book a demo below.