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See how IAP Worldwide Services saves 25% in productivity costs using SAP mobile apps for enterprise asset management.

The lower costs and higher availability of a wide variety of mobile devices is quickly translating into an increasingly tech-savvy field workforce for many major companies. In fact, top companies are using innovations in enterprise apps to deliver big savings and efficiencies for their businesses. For example, SAP customer IAP Worldwide Services – a contractor for the U.S. and other friendly governments and specialists in supplying humanitarian aid, capacity building, and infrastructure development – uses SAP mobile apps for its field workers and is seeing big results.

A massive part of IAP Worldwide Services’ business is base operations support services, which involves the preventive maintenance of equipment at military bases all around the world. In order for IAP to standardize the level of service it offers and the processes that all of its field personnel use, IAP needed a mobile technology that could unify its maintenance staff. Additionally, IAP Worldwide Services wanted real-time visibility to all of its operations that hard-copy work orders and inventory slips couldn’t supply. By using SAP Work Manager and SAP Inventory Manager mobile apps (former Syclo apps), IAP field workers have been able to reduce preventive maintenance process steps by 50%, and the company has seen a 25% reduction in productivity costs, thanks to its field workforce’s new mobility.

Now, instead of carrying a stack of papers into the field to tell the workers which equipment needs maintenance, the work orders appear on their mobile device, along with access to any additional information they might need, anywhere they happen to be. And as a result, technicians get more “wrench time” and less data entry time. One employee of IAP Worldwide Services even called his mobile device his most important tool. Not only that, but SAP has also worked with IAP Worldwide Services to create a 30-day implementation period for all of its new contracts, enabling IAP to be agile and responsive. The stability, flexibility, and security of the SAP Work Manager mobile app have helped IAP Worldwide Services succeed in its business goals while supporting frontline troops the world over.

To learn more about how IAP Worldwide Services is using SAP apps to improve its processes and empower field workers, watch the full customer story.