MobiQuest has launched an SMS-based mobile sales and supply chain reporting tool. MobiSales is designed to help companies get a daily sales report, stock updates and much more from the field by using mobile phones and the SMS technology.

The mobile-based sales tool has the capabilities of a full-fledged remote data capture but neither requires a high-end phone nor GPRS. It will capture data and send it as an SMS packet that gets decoded by the MobiSales back-end system. The back-end system has the capability to provide Web reports, Excel reports of daily field data or integrate the data with any existing system or back-end ERP system.

According to Vineet Narang, CEO, MobiQuest, this product is suitable for insurance, healthcare, unorganised retail, pharma, FMCG and any other company that has agents, sales representatives on the field or any other field data capture activity. There is a lot of information that every company collects from their field employees, sales force, dealers, and channels on a regular basis. All this information can be collected and transferred daily eliminating the last mile problem completely.

MobiSales is easy to implement and is cost effective as well. There is no need of any large investment in phones or GPRS. MobiQuest charges a 'per person per month' fee depending on the number of people.

This tool will simplify daily sales reporting, updating of time sheets, retail data capture from point of sale and real time synchronisation with back-end databases and applications. It uses the universal SMS technology and can run on common mobile phones of sales people, insurance agents, field employees and surveyors.