Deep Dive
Who Runs Your Company?
Do you know what the cost is per hour to operate your equipment? Do you know what the cost is per hour if your equipment is idle? Do you know where your equipment is located? Most important, do you know where your equipment is scheduled to be tomorrow, the next day, or even next week? How about your people and material?
If you answered yes to the previous questions, stop reading and light up the best cigar money can buy. You are making more money than 90% of your competitors. But if you’re still here, guess who’s running your company? It isn’t you. It’s your foremen, your job managers, your dispatcher, maybe even your subcontractors. It’s whoever knows where your resources are.
Scheduling vs. Planning
You run a tight ship. You know what’s happening this week, next week, maybe even the week after. But what about next month? Or three or six months down the line? Long-term planning is the difference between putting out fires and preventing them.
The Basics
This is the minimum for any construction scheduling software. Whether you are onboarding your data from a spreadsheet or starting from scratch, ControlBoard® goes far deeper. We’ll take this same schedule, and add some metrics.
Onboarding Your Data
Perhaps you are coming to ControlBoard® after years of scheduling your company using spreadsheets and whiteboards. Congratulations on your success!
Or maybe you’re augmenting your existing systems and processes to take advantage of our best-in-class construction scheduling.
Either way, reaping the rewards of better scheduling depends on getting your company data into ControlBoard®.
Almost every entity ControlBoard® tracks can be imported from and synced up with other systems. This includes not just the basics like customers and employees, but also complex data like shifts, job activities, and timed lookups (such as employee licenses and equipment maintenance).