Market Trends of Field Service Management (FSM) Industry
Service Contract Management to Hold Significant Market Share
- Businesses relying on outside contractors or third-party service providers for fieldwork also require the same functionality as enterprise businesses. Still, the client details and visibility are even more important here. Outsourcing field services, partial or full, can help companies reduce labor costs and expand their operations. After a job is assigned to a contractor, multiple companies had no way to know when service is delivered, how long it took, or if the issue is even resolved until they started receiving customer complaints. The FSM software for outsourced services primarily provides visibility into the contractor service delivery making third-party technicians indistinguishable from an organization's internal workforce.
- The companies have now become able to manage their contractors and related administrative tasks through vendor portals within the FSM software solution. Just as with traditional field workers, contractors also need real-time access to the work order information, parts availability, and the ability to report back quickly on service delivery and submit claims. The customer calls requiring a technician on-site can also be dispatched by a company to its technicians or a local service partner. Moreover, these portals can exist outside the main company interface so that the company data remains secure while allowing everyone to access what they need.
- Providing this two-way interaction with the outside employees primarily enables service companies to issue last-minute schedule changes to the contractors, majorly providing updates to their customers about technician arrival times, monitor work orders in order to ensure SLA compliance, and even create opportunities for optimized scheduling and planning.
- Vendors in the market have been offering innovative solutions to satisfy their client's needs. For example, Mize Inc. provides its service contract management software and solutions to help third-party administrators (TPAs), manufacturers (OEMs), retailers, and channel partners to set up, sell, administer, track, and analyze various service programs.
- Additionally, the adoption of cloud-integrated contract management solutions across various organizations due to its benefit in high data security, scalability, and better data management features, which allow organizations from multiple industries in the public and private sectors to draft, negotiate, sign, approve, track, and renew contracts in one centralized location.
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Asia Pacific to Witness Significant Growth Rate
- The Asia Pacific is expected to witness significant field service management market growth. The rapid growth rate is attributed to the region being home to many SMEs, which are highly involved in developing and adopting field services and their management solutions. With an increasingly wide range of field services and mobile roles available, the role of the mobile worker is more prevalent than before in the region, supporting the adoption of mobile apps for technical projects, which would drive the market in the APAC region.
- In developing countries, including China, India, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, the increasing need to differentiate services through customer satisfaction is now more prevalent. These expectations will likely grow, and organizations using field service management software must ensure improved communication between field staff and customers, ensuring services are delivered efficiently.
- Additionally, the field service management market has an emerging scope in the region, majorly due to large-scale industrialization. The region is expected to exhibit steady growth in the field service management market with enhanced geographic zones and a high client base. The growth in the number of technology users in the region further propels the growth of the field service management market.
- India is one of the significant markets in the Asia pacific Region for field service management solutions, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence (AI). Growing cloud and AI adoption among SMEs and increased investments in AI technology by all end-users are significant factors driving the market. According to a Yotta survey, 37% of Indian enterprises had their digital infrastructure in the cloud, with more than 60% expected to be adopted through the cloud by 2022. Furthermore, the market's expansion in automation, machine-to-machine communication, cloud manufacturing, and cloud AI directly drives the demand for field service management platforms. As a result, the demand for FSM solutions is increasing.
- For instances, In July 2022, Pune India Birlasoft Ltd, a digital and IT services company and part of the USD 2.8 billion diversified CK Birla Group, strengthened its relationship with SAP by leveraging RISE with SAP to transform its digital landscape onto the cloud. With enterprises adopting a 'Cloud-First' strategy, Birlasoft will be able to accelerate their clients' transformation journeys significantly.
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