Ho Ho Ho…! The season of giving is about to begin! With happiness, joy, binging, family vibes, and so on comes the unavoidable part of gift selection, shopping, and dispatch! Imagine the plight of Santa and his elves who need to do it for an unimaginable number of people all around the world! Stressful, right! What if they have some aid for quick and accurate gift dispatch just as they had for gift distribution in our previous blog from this special Christmas Series!
We suggested Maplytics, a preferred, 5 star rated geo-analytical mapping app on the Microsoft AppSource for Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM / Dataverse (PowerApps) to be helpful for aligning territories for the elves for ease gift distribution in our previous blog. Now, let us consider how Maplytics could contribute to the dispatch and transfer of the same gifts.
In spite of the circumstances, Santa and his elves believe in gifting personally. Though through a chimney pipe, they believe in dropping off the gifts first hand. This also is a prime principle of good customer relationship management. Personal visits add extra warmth and joy to the season!
So now that the individual sales territories, elves in-charge of those territories, and gifts are checked, let us plot the routes to be followed by Santa and the respective elves to distribute these joyous gifts! The popular feature of Route Optimization shall be used for the same. Though the Santa party travels through the air, finding the right house quickly could be a problem. Hence, to ease out this plight, the routes to all the houses could be plotted over a map in Maplytics using the CRM records created as mentioned in our previous blog of the same Christmas Series. The routes would be the shortest in terms of time taken to travel and distance covered in flying.
Traffic and toll often cut down the speed of traveling on-road and the same may not be the case in the air. Yet, on a busy Christmas Eve night, the activities could be rampant in the sky as well! Thus, Route optimization could help in finding the most effective routes avoiding any such hindrances for the Santa party, making their journey quick and easy!
Route optimization supports turn-by-turn navigation facility as well. Thus, a new Elf too could easily find the house assigned to it and drop off the gifts correctly using detailed instructions. In case of certain deviations on the field, the routes taken could be altered mid-air and the deliveries could be completed conveniently and in time for all!
In this manner, if used efficiently with proper planning, Route optimization could bring about exquisite field sales management experience and increase the overall productivity of work! With punctuality imbibed into the meetings, appointments, deliveries, etc. the relationships with the clients too shall strengthen.
So let’s all get inspired this season and check how we can harness the powers of Maplytics into our businesses by downloading a free trial from our website or Microsoft AppSource or by contacting us at crm@inogic.com to discuss your mapping requirements, doubts, and assumptions. To further know how the Santa fam could utilize the other amazing features of Maplytics and ease their jobs wait for our next Blog Spread the Joy of gifting this Holiday season using Maplytics within Dynamics 365 CRM!
Happy Holidays!
