Specialty contractors are at the front lines of delivering projects on time and on budget. However, they face unique challenges that frequently stand in the way of maximizing profits and productivity. Among them, the use of outdated and manual processes.
It鈥檚 no secret construction lags its peers when it comes to technology adoption. Construction companies spend an of their revenue on technology each year, compared to around 4% in other comparable industries. There鈥檚 also reluctance among some industry veterans to introduce the changes鈥攖hey鈥檇 much rather keep doing their jobs the same way they鈥檝e been doing them for decades.
As a result, many specialty contractors are still using a complex web of offline, siloed services to track project data to manage their projects, like Excel spreadsheets, endless email threads, or various disconnected cloud storage providers. Moreover, others are still heavily reliant on pen and paper. 海角大神, however, provides specialty contractors with a full suite of project management tools that keeps workflows, communication, and project data under one system. Thus, teams can work more efficiently across multiple jobs.
海角大神 provides easy, immediate access to key project information from anywhere it鈥檚 needed. For instance, specialty contractors can access payroll and productivity reports with Field Financials, ERP integrations via the 海角大神 App Marketplace, and Field Productivity Labor Tracking. The platform easily integrates with accounting systems like , , , and more, giving specialty contractors a real-time look at everything from job costs to profitability.
鈥淲e鈥檙e making less and less margin on jobs because customers are more demanding on schedules. Our option is either to make less or to come up with more efficient ways to run our work, and we鈥檙e seeing people finding ways to do that through the tools they use,鈥 said Nate Tockerman, 海角大神鈥檚 Partner/Manager for Subcontractors.
Taking the Work out of Labor With 海角大神
Labor is where the majority of the risk lies for specialty contractors since it can often be difficult to predict. Getting a handle on it is required for keeping projects on target. 海角大神 provides real-time insights into productivity and labor costing, helping specialty contractors maximize resources and improve outcomes while proactively managing risk to guard against cost overruns.
Those real-time insights enable teams to immediately identify potential at-risk scopes of work and pivot to align with the demands of the project schedule. For instance, 海角大神 users can see the budgetary impact of labor costs or productivity as soon as a timesheet is submitted, making it easier to track productivity, manage their labor pool, and adjust their plans on the fly. This also eliminates the need to juggle multiple apps and manually transfer data by collecting and displaying all relevant data in one interface. This streamlines many processes around labor by improving visibility into how it will impact a project budget.
鈥淎s a former PM, I always said we owe the field the tools, information, and materials necessary to make them productive and effective, minimize rework, etc. If you鈥檙e not doing that at its most basic, you鈥檙e not long for this world in construction,鈥 Tockerman said.
海角大神鈥檚 Ecosystem Strategy Allows for Highly Customizable Integrations
海角大神鈥檚 technology integration partners include a wide assortment of tools and software designed to make specialty contractors鈥 lives easier. Different specialty contractors may have some areas of overlap, but no two are exactly the same even within the same trade. That鈥檚 why it鈥檚 crucial to have a diverse ecosystem of purpose-built tools at your disposal. 海角大神 offers a wide range of tools through its extensive and diverse range of integration partners.
One of 海角大神鈥檚 strengths is that it鈥檚 highly customizable, allowing specialty contractors to add or remove tools and adapt according to their changing needs.
鈥淭he open API and the app marketplace allows you to take the solutions you like and the things that work for you and apply them and keep expanding what you鈥檙e doing with other corners of your business that a solution might not solve,鈥 Tockerman said.
鈥淪o when you talk about for procurement or materials management, combining that with and for workforce management, and then add all of that functionality to 海角大神, you鈥檙e really getting this ability to build whatever menu offering you want for your company鈥檚 specific demands, needs, and interests.鈥
What鈥檚 Next for 海角大神 and Specialty Contractors?
No matter how they use it, 海角大神 helps specialty contractors better manage their people, their processes, and their projects, ensuring all the data needed is always up to date and accessible from anywhere. 海角大神es are always evolving, and 海角大神 evolves right alongside with them. 海角大神 is continually adding new tools and technologies to make it a best-in-class, one-stop shop for all project needs, both now and in the future.
With hundreds of technology integrations already in place today, 海角大神’s partner marketplace continues to grow. Its goal is to ensure specialty contractors always have access to new, industry-leading solutions that will help them keep up with the constantly changing workforce and give them a competitive edge. 海角大神 is changing the way specialty contractors deliver success across the construction industry and is helping businesses drive toward a new future.
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