This One is for the Earth! Paperless SFA– Where Less is More!

This post was originally published on Zoom Mobile SFA’s Blog

When the globe is fighting to reverse the effect of humans on the environment, it becomes imperative that technology too steps in to give this thought a push. Paper, could only be one of the major culprits and it is time that we go paperless! And when field force tracking & automation solutions take charge, there is no looking back!

Facts about Paper and Paper Waste

As we speak, more than 199 tons of paper has already been produced.
324 liters of water is used to make 1 kilogram of paper.
10 liters of water is needed to make one piece of A4 paper.
93% of paper comes from trees.
50% of the waste of businesses is composed of paper.
To print a Sunday edition of the New York Times requires 75,000 trees!
Recycling 1 ton of paper saves around 682.5 gallons of oil, 26,500 liters of water and 17 trees.
Packaging makes up 1/3 or more of our trash.
U.S offices use 12.1 trillion sheets of paper a year.
Paper accounts for 25% of landfill waste and 33% of municipal waste.
With all the paper we waste each year, we can build a 12 foot high wall of paper from New York to California!
Lessening of paper usage was predicted due to the electronic revolution. It didn’t happen. Demand for paper is expected to double before 2030.
Every tree produces enough oxygen for 3 people to breathe.

The World Counts

Technology has a widespread impact on the way enterprises chip in to combat the adverse effects on the environment. Technology rules how sales are conducted in the last decade or so. Sales reps rely heavily now on filed force automation & management applications for performing repetitive & mundane pre-sales as well post-sales tasks, such as filtering out customers, scheduling sales appointments, follow up communication, updating pipeline related paperwork, to name a few; all paperless.

Technologies like big data & analytics, enterprise mobility, IoT & sensor based tactics like the beacons have completely revolutionized the way enterprises respond to current & prospective customers and partner channels in entirely digitized ways!