Research Article

A Scheduling System for Enhancing and Monitoring Work Performance of Field Employees

Volume: 14 Number: 1 October 22, 2021
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A Scheduling System for Enhancing and Monitoring Work Performance of Field Employees

Abstract

Today, field sales and service businesses are continuously endeavoring to form their processes and operations more effective. Managing field employees and their tasks (or activities) are often difficult in most organizations. In field sales and service businesses, organizations mostly have problems with communicating work plans to employees since the workforce is spread over different areas having unique geospatial data. They need smart scheduling and planning information systems to make things planned and organized at the work environment and to automate sales and sales force management functions; and also to plan, track, and manage the allocation of labor resources. This study presents a Geographical Information System (GIS) based comprehensive scheduling system, called Scheduler+ for planning, organizing and monitoring the field employees and streamlining operations of field sales and service businesses. The proposed system aims to ensure dynamic and automatic scheduling customer point based tasks, to provide support to employees, to record the data to be obtained during the realization of tasks, and also to enable reporting and tracking of work performance. In this context, this paper presents the general design and analysis issues including the system context, modules, functionalities, some user interface designs and main development considerations.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Engineering

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

October 22, 2021

Submission Date

August 20, 2021

Acceptance Date

August 24, 2021

Published in Issue

Year 2021 Volume: 14 Number: 1

APA
Özdenizci Köse, B., Çakıcı, A., Coskun, V., Kaymakçı, T., İşlek, İ., & Alsadi, M. (2021). A Scheduling System for Enhancing and Monitoring Work Performance of Field Employees. Beykent Üniversitesi Fen Ve Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi, 14(1), 6-14. https://doi.org/10.20854/bujse.985510
AMA
1.Özdenizci Köse B, Çakıcı A, Coskun V, Kaymakçı T, İşlek İ, Alsadi M. A Scheduling System for Enhancing and Monitoring Work Performance of Field Employees. BUJSE. 2021;14(1):6-14. doi:10.20854/bujse.985510
Chicago
Özdenizci Köse, Büşra, Aybüke Çakıcı, Vedat Coskun, Tolunay Kaymakçı, İlayda İşlek, and Mohammed Alsadi. 2021. “A Scheduling System for Enhancing and Monitoring Work Performance of Field Employees”. Beykent Üniversitesi Fen Ve Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi 14 (1): 6-14. https://doi.org/10.20854/bujse.985510.
EndNote
Özdenizci Köse B, Çakıcı A, Coskun V, Kaymakçı T, İşlek İ, Alsadi M (October 1, 2021) A Scheduling System for Enhancing and Monitoring Work Performance of Field Employees. Beykent Üniversitesi Fen ve Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi 14 1 6–14.
IEEE
[1]B. Özdenizci Köse, A. Çakıcı, V. Coskun, T. Kaymakçı, İ. İşlek, and M. Alsadi, “A Scheduling System for Enhancing and Monitoring Work Performance of Field Employees”, BUJSE, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 6–14, Oct. 2021, doi: 10.20854/bujse.985510.
ISNAD
Özdenizci Köse, Büşra - Çakıcı, Aybüke - Coskun, Vedat - Kaymakçı, Tolunay - İşlek, İlayda - Alsadi, Mohammed. “A Scheduling System for Enhancing and Monitoring Work Performance of Field Employees”. Beykent Üniversitesi Fen ve Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi 14/1 (October 1, 2021): 6-14. https://doi.org/10.20854/bujse.985510.
JAMA
1.Özdenizci Köse B, Çakıcı A, Coskun V, Kaymakçı T, İşlek İ, Alsadi M. A Scheduling System for Enhancing and Monitoring Work Performance of Field Employees. BUJSE. 2021;14:6–14.
MLA
Özdenizci Köse, Büşra, et al. “A Scheduling System for Enhancing and Monitoring Work Performance of Field Employees”. Beykent Üniversitesi Fen Ve Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi, vol. 14, no. 1, Oct. 2021, pp. 6-14, doi:10.20854/bujse.985510.
Vancouver
1.Büşra Özdenizci Köse, Aybüke Çakıcı, Vedat Coskun, Tolunay Kaymakçı, İlayda İşlek, Mohammed Alsadi. A Scheduling System for Enhancing and Monitoring Work Performance of Field Employees. BUJSE. 2021 Oct. 1;14(1):6-14. doi:10.20854/bujse.985510