Industry Challenges

Job Scheduling

Many contractors, both large and small, struggle with the task of completing projects on time and profitably. Best job scheduling efforts aside, problems often still occur. ComputerEase solves these problems.

Problems include:

Schedules do not clearly accommodate critical interdependencies and note mandatory completion points - A roof cannot be put on a building until the frame is up
Job schedules for different projects conflict - A particular piece of equipment or skilled individual is needed at two different jobs on the same day
Inability to balance workloads across various projects - A company with a staff of ten has work or jobs scheduled requiring fourteen people one day and eight people the next
Unexpected delays affect job schedule - Bad weather delays a project, and there is no real easy way to adjust. All affected tasks and workloads cannot be rebalanced without spending many hours on rescheduling and shifting resources

To be successful in the construction industry, you need to plan your work and then work your plan.

Successful planning includes:

Laying out the project timeline for each phase of a project
Knowing where the critical interdependencies lie within that timeline
Allocating needed resources for each task effectively
Balancing your workload to ensure that your resources are effectively utilized between all active jobs scheduled
Adjusting and readjusting your job schedules as the project progresses to account for outside factors

ComputerEase's Project Management module provides you with an intelligent job scheduling feature that accommodates all aspects of successful planning. This allows you to successfully work your plan. A successfully executed job schedule equals timely and profitable jobs.

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"Integrated project scheduling is a great tool"

Tom Moore
President
MIS Construction Software

In addition, there's integrated project scheduling, which is a great tool. Because not only does it make the project scheduling easier, but it's linked into the accounting system so that, in the schedule, they can look at the actual and budgeted costs in hours and uh, the percent complete of each of the items on the schedule. So there's a lot of little things in ComputerEase like that that you just don't see in many other packages.

Steven McNutt
Service Manager
Feldkamp Enterprises

What I like best about using the uh, ComputerEase scheduling module is the fact that I can see where my service techs are, what location they are at, and what jobs I have for them to go to next.

Ryan Koby
Service Manager
TMI Electrical

One of the large ways or bigger ways is, is in the past we did a lot of paper forms uhm, with uhm, job setups and, and every one of those paper forms you had to fill out by hand, you had to fill the customer out and then sometimes you had different sites where you had to put uhm, different site addresses, plus all that information on there, all the phone numbers, the contact information. Obviously the description of the work, when they want it by and everything and now you can just click ComputerEase and, and it, it, it comes up, especially for repeat sites, repeat customers, you can go back, you know, multiple times and it, it just, it's a snap to, to create a work order.