Southampton UK, 24.10.2008: The Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust has vastly reduced its running costs by dispensing with its in-house warehouse. Instead, the Trust has opted for carrying “imprest stock” on its vans and working in partnership with Buildbase, the builders’ merchants. To support the new way of working, the Trust has introduced PDAs using a mobile workforce software solution from 1st Touch (www.1stTouch.com) for its operatives in the first move towards a totally mobile engineering workforce. Important selection criteria were drawn up for a mobile application vendor with proven expertise in this area and an open rather than proprietary technology approach.
- Published: 23 October 2008