Missing handheld mobile devices are a common, and expensive, problem for warehouses and DCs.
Leading rugged device manufacturers indicate 6%-15% of shared devices go missing annually. Warehouses and DCs are busy so it’s easy to see how an employee puts down a device to tend to another activity but forgets where they left it, or finds it missing when they return.
Mounting cost of missing devices
Customer missing device costs run from tens of thousands to millions of pounds per year. It’s not just the cost of the replacement device but also impacts productivity due to worker downtime and time spent searching for devices.
Board room scrutiny
Assuming estate life of 5 years and the average percentage of devices missing P.A., board rooms are now noticing that the total cost of ownership is between 50% and 75% more than the original estate cost. This added cost to replace missing devices (£700-£1000 each) is rarely budgeted for at the outset.
Whether your workplace has dozens, a few hundred, or thousands, the cost of missing devices is biting hard into your bottom line. With the cost-of-living crises impacting businesses, unnecessary spending on replacing missing devices is likely to be a tough budget ask to the board.
Hide and seek
A challenge in finding a device is knowing that it’s missing in the first place. Often companies only find out about losses when they do an audit, long after the device has been lost.
With Device Finder, devices are set-up to proactively to alert you when they are inactive for a defined period, such as 10 minutes. The rugged device sounds an alarm alerting you that it may be missing, enabling businesses to proactively find, retrieve, and redeploy the device instantly.
X marks the spot
Waizu’s Device Finder mobile application can signpost where the device was last used. Customers walk to that location, contact the device by ringing it and find its exact whereabouts. This key feature has enabled customers to find missing rugged devices in the middle of stacked pallets, behind boxes, down the back of stocked shelves, on top of palletisers and even the back of a lorry which was being loaded.
If you have shared mobile devices from Zebra, Honeywell, or Datalogic, then Waizu can help you get the basics right and put money back on your bottom line.
For further information, please contact: tel: 07542816763 email: info@getwaizu.com or visit: www.getwaizu.com
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