Three contractors with extensive heavy construction finance and operations experience share insights into processes, technology and company-culture aspects for effective job costing.
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48:04Winning bids is important but hitting the profitability targets in the estimate is the real goal. Learn how and why contractors unify estimating and field tracking systems.
1:00:06Adam Schoenfeld from Whitaker Construction and Ram Vela from The Vortex Companies discuss how companies can use and unify field-centric technologies to complete projects more profitably.
35:04Take a step-by-step look at B2W Schedule capabilities that make it easy for dispatchers to access, assign, confirm and coordinate materials and trucking.
32:18Replacing a disconnected mix of spreadsheets, phone calls, whiteboards and messages for heavy construction resource planning with B2W Schedule simplifies processes and provides real-time visibility.
43:20Cole Twehous provides five real-world examples of how the company benefits from eForms and reporting capabilities for specific safety and inspection processes that all contractors can relate to.
35:12Estimators relying on spreadsheets are at a disadvantage. This is a must-attend for any heavy construction estimator making the business case for purpose-built estimating software.
17:28Review the benefits of grouping and how the custom Tags option bolsters bidding and provides unique ways to calculate costs, distribute markup, find information and display bid forms
1:00:10Equipment maintenance experts discuss how synergy between people, technology and process can deliver industry leading uptime and cost reduction results
22:33Learn how to set up maintenance codes according to industry best practices and how these codes open up opportunities to analyze equipment fleets and maintenance operations more effectively.
30:25Discover all the ways to arrange the look and layout of estimates - including changing views and applying values such as Work Types and Phases - to get more information and customization out of bids.
22:51Learn how to use this powerful B2W Track feature and when it is beneficial for aligning cost data reported from the field with cost data in the accounting system.
55:33Learn why spreadsheets put contractors at a disadvantage and how competitors with specialized software win more jobs at the right margins by bidding faster and bidding more accurately.
49:31Join construction estimating experts as they explore the challenges of managing change orders and the best approaches to protecting profits by doing it in a faster and more organized manner.
24:35Discover how Crew Templates can speed up the assignment of resources and how to use Production Targets to provide more precise information to the field regarding planned production vs actual results.
47:00Developing a strategy, structure and level of specificity for cost code structure to drive synergy and efficiency across estimating, tracking, accounting and reporting.
25:52Review how to set up and use maintenance management software like B2W Maintain to manage large or small parts inventories more effectively across one or multiple locations
24:24In this webcast, explore the cost structure view within B2W Estimate. Learn how to review & edit an estimate, as well as, how to use efficiency factors as a different way to calculate crew production.
21:48Break down one of the core tools of B2W Schedule to understand all the working parts and how to get the highest degree of functionality with the system.
30:47Using B2W Track to manage work outside the original project scope and provide customers with on-the-spot electronic documentation
25:05Explore how to move job and organizational information from B2W Estimate to B2W Track to align how jobs are bid with how they are scheduled, preformed and tracked in the field.
