They met over coffee along with Tim’s Manager and the company Sales Head. The Sales Head highlighted multiple problems that could be considered an obstacle to sustenance in the long run.
- He mentioned, “My reps often get lost in their route and have to backtrack to reach the client location. This often wastes a lot of time and cuts into the meeting time. They end up paying a lot of tolls or taking unnecessary highways as they do not know the shortest routes.
- My reps do not have a strict scheduling policy. They turn in the office, check where they are required, and then proceed. As a result, we often miss out on prioritizing our client requirements or are unable to accommodate ad hoc requests. This ultimately affects our relationship with the client and the overall field productivity!
- The cost of gasoline is $3.5/ gallon today and it has been increasing with each passing day. With the gas wasted on finding routes and backtracking, our final expenses go haywire.
We cannot continue with this working model when we can see it is eating into our productivity and progress. We would appreciate any suggestions you would have for our ordeal”, he concluded.
The Consultant noted down all the specific complaints and nodded understandingly. After pondering over the issue for a few minutes, she said, “I will get into the details of this crux after reviewing all the documents once we are on board. However, at first glance, and as Tim’s friend, I would suggest you need
“Yes, I have seen it being used by a few of my friends in similar positions. Isn’t it the preferred app of the
“You mentioned that a meeting scheduler is not in place at your organization. Here, check out this case study”, she said handing out a printed case study. “This is a Case Study of one of my clients who use Maplytics regularly. This case explains how she has used it efficiently for Auto-Scheduling. Your Field Reps can have a pre-planned schedule to act upon so you all could start up by being organized and informed. Now that the schedule is in place, let us take a day’s schedule for your rep. Once the appointment locations for the day have been marked, an optimized route with the shortest travel distance avoiding highways, tolls, and traffic can be plotted by selecting the options.
The travel route can be live or pre-scheduled if required.
This route can be saved with a name for future reference or to be used at a convenient time.
The route also comes with turn-by-turn navigation directions and links to the same. These links have the proper driving directions and can be printed as well as mailed.
The navigation links can then be shared with the field reps, managers, or even the clients expecting them for uber convenience. This added along with the feature of
If a new waypoint is added to accommodate the impromptu query, the travel directions can also be changed and the navigation directions get auto-updated for the field rep.
The route, if, saved already could be updated or deleted completely.
Thus, if you see, the above procedure can be done for multiple clients for multiple days by the Manager responsible and the reps can view it all on the

“This could be a potential solution for us. Proper, optimized directions would save our time, expense, client relationship, et al, and help us sustain with ease”, agreed, the Sales Head and Tim’s Manager.
The Consultant suggested the Team write to Maplytics at [email protected] for their mapping queries, a
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