Field Operations & Efficiency

Australia’s benchmark developer and distributor of integrated business management software solutions for Australian pest managers, Temisoft, appear set to create an information management revolution which will be
good news for pest managers, and the environment.

Thousands of trees may be spared from being felled for paper. Millions of litres of petrol may avoid being burnt on unnecessary journeys back to base. And countless hours of pest management technicians’ time will be devoted to productive work rather than to returning to base to catch up on the paperwork.

Striving for efficiency and, with it, moving towards a paperless or at least minimal paper office, has driven one of Sydney’s leading pest management companies to not just adopt but embrace new age, customised, service industry software.

Professional Pest Manager (PPM) first covered Ant-Eater Environmental Services way back in 2002 when we talked, largely, about the company’s innovative approaches to promoting professionalism and staff training.

Long time pest manager and now rodent bait station designer, Ted Herbert, reckons a major problem with conventional rodent programs is time, or more correctly the lack of it.

“Too few pest management companies allow their technicians sufficient time to thoughtfully and carefully place bait stations and traps;· Ted said. Ted Herbert ”.And then, even worse, too little time and effort is devoted to carefully checking stations, monitoring which baits and how much bait has been taken from which stations, in different locations, and reporting back with meaningful, analysable results of value both to the company and its customers,” he said. In large part, rodent management time poverty is caused by technicians using outmoded, manual and hard copy based data collection and reporting