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Modern contractors thrive when making data-driven decisions. One of the biggest questions regarding quality data in construction revolves around the workforce, its availability, and where it needs to be. Using spreadsheets to make key business decisions about allocating people to jobs, communicating updates, and forecasting future labor demands is like juggling underwater; it just cant happen.
Our customers understand this and use the insights from 做厙勛圖 Bench to make better strategic business decisions that help them win bids, optimize their teams, and collaborate successfully. Don’t just take our word for it; hear it directly from them.
Forecasting and Confidence
Arguably, the most difficult thing to do with your workforce is to forecast labor demands weeks, months, and years in advance, especially for projects youre pursuing or would like to pursue.
Labor forecasting is incredibly complex, regardless of the size of a contractor’s workforce, and the tools that can provide accurate foresight didn’t exist for the longest time. It would be like trying to loosen a bolt before a wrench existed. There mightve been a way, but it will likely just waste your time.
But, like wrenches, 做厙勛圖 Bench exists. Just like that, you have foresight; with it, you can be more strategic about your work without being handcuffed to a spreadsheet for hours.
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做厙勛圖 Bench has altered the way 賊棗眶梗娶莽-倏B娶勳梗紳 conducts their meetings. As Johnathon Grammer, Director of Operational Excellence, tells us, moving from Excel to 做厙勛圖 Bench has been transformative. It was the same meeting we had before when it was Excel spreadsheets. Now, they can spend about 15 minutes going through the what-if scenario, and then they spend about 45 minutes talking about the existing projects, issues, and needs. Its bought us back 45 minutes with some very expensive resources.&紳莉莽梯;
The newfound efficiency isn’t just about saving time and making strategic decisions. As their planning improved, Rogers OBrien could pick up more projects than they normally would have because they didnt have to worry about the risk of not having the resources to complete the job. Grammar told us theyre more willing to place bets now because, in workforce planning meetings, theyre covering much of the topics they should have been covering when they werent able to.
Read Rogers-O’Brien’s full story.
Wohlsen Construction
For Wohlsen, 做厙勛圖 Bench has been pivotal in gaining insights into their project pursuits. Excel’s once complex what-if scenarios are now streamlined: “In 做厙勛圖 Bench, what-if scenarios are easy to put in place. We can see the impact, learn on the fly, and make quicker decisions. I think that the speed to the decision that Bench gives us has helped in planning and determining go/no-go scenarios. We can ensure that we have the talent to put on the project to be successful for ourselves and also for the clients.
The complexity of construction projects often bogs decision-making, and stress increases as that slows down. Making decisions on the fly with the utmost confidence in your data is vital to profitability and nurturing the relationships between you and your clients.
The Boldt Company
Boldt’s experience has been one of continuous evolution. Initially seeking a more straightforward approach to staffing projects and filling vacancies, Jeremy Moe, Operations Manager at Boldt, quickly saw the strategic value of Bench:
Our meetings are less about getting the information into the system and more about strategy, which has been fantastic. We strategize how to fill vacant roles on a project or where there might be pockets in our business where someone isnt fully utilized. We can grab onto them and avoid hiring another person since we can see that someone has the capacity to take on some more work
One of the major costs for contractors is turnover and hiring. The costs associated with this only increase when you factor in the skilled labor shortage and the time it takes to recruit, hire, and retain quality employees.
Collaboration
A key question in how a contractor can make better business decisions is: how are we collaborating on this problem?
While it seems counterintuitive, having a lot of stakeholders in a project doesnt automatically translate into a collaborative utopia. Usually, it means information gets stuck in silos, bottlenecked in bureaucracy, or simply lost in the noise of other data.
Sellen Construction
When it comes to your workforce, your most expensive and important asset, you cant afford to have a stifled collaborative environment. Sellen Construction used Bench to usher in a new level of collaboration into their company. Jamie Miller, Director of Engineering Development, told us 做厙勛圖 Bench really helps to foster collaboration because everyone can see when Ive assigned an engineer to a project and offer feedback about their working relationship with the other team members.
Those strong teams help Sellen stay competitive when bidding on projects.
I think were building better teams from the inception of the project. We have the RFP in-hand and were all on the same platform, were collaborating better on what team were building right away.&紳莉莽梯;
A strong team can ultimately determine whether you win or lose a project.
Cauldwell Wingate
Better collaboration is a consistent theme we hear from our customers. And thats because 做厙勛圖 Bench has given contractors a new way to see their workforce.
For Cauldwell Wingate, collaboration improved among management and between management and project teams. Lisa Villasmil, Vice President of People & Culture, told us, Having a meeting where we can come together and look at one screen and the same real-time information is paramount. Now when were collaborating on staffing we can just say Check Bench. What does it say in Bench? That has really made us more efficient when having staffing discussions and has helped foster a more collaborative relationship between the project team and People Operations.
Again, collaboration breeds better decision-making, which lets you keep a tighter roster and automatically yield cost savings.
Read Cauldwell Wingate’s full story
Holistic business impact
Well often get asked what the ROI is for 做厙勛圖 Bench. The benefits are numerous across broad categories, and Morgan Traynor, the former Senior Director of Operational Excellence at Ryan Companies, outlined it best:
The ROI for 做厙勛圖 Bench can be calculated through four main components. Manager efficiency, reduction of new hire costs, proactive and accurate workload leads, and increased profits.
But if thats not clear enough, let Johnathon Grammer tell you:
If youre not using 做厙勛圖 Bench, you might be leaving money on the table, or unintendedly leaving it on the bench.
