Here’s a number worth spending five minutes with: $75,000.For a construction company with 10 back-office employees, three hours per week spent moving and reconciling information between disconnected systems adds up to $75,000 per year in loaded labor.10...
Most construction companies don’t lose money all at once. Margin erodes gradually through small issues that go unnoticed until they compound. A job can look sound at the bid and reasonable halfway through, then close out well below the projected margin, with no single...
Every contractor wants to run a profitable, well-managed business. The question is whether leadership can see the right information early enough to protect that profitability.After more than three decades helping construction companies implement and optimize their...
For many construction companies, the biggest threat to profitability is not a labor shortage, a weather event, a delayed material shipment, or even an unexpected change order. Those challenges have always existed and, to some degree, always will. The real threat is...
A decision is made early in almost every ERP evaluation, and it is usually treated as a simple cost discussion.Who actually needs a license?It sounds like a responsible question. Control the number of users, control the spend. But in construction, that decision rarely...
Where Are My Materials?It is a familiar moment on many construction sites. A project manager stands in the trailer, juggling emails, PDFs, and text messages as they try to answer a simple question.Where are my materials?The answer is rarely in one place. A supplier...
Last month, we shared research highlighting a challenge that the construction industry can no longer ignore. Studies showed the sector lost $1.84 trillion due to poor data management, while 14-16% of rework can be traced to bad data, and roughly ⅓ of poor business...
Profit fade is one of the most common frustrations in construction. A project is awarded with confidence. The estimate looks reasonable. Crews mobilize. The work gets done. But somewhere between bid day and closeout, margin slips away. Too often, that erosion gets...
Growth brings opportunity.It also reveals strain.For construction companies, that strain rarely shows up as a single failure. Instead, it appears gradually: job costs drift, billing slows, forecasts feel less certain, and teams begin building spreadsheets to fill the...
Growth presents opportunities, but it also exposes strains within a business. Companies in construction, manufacturing, and distribution often find that their systems no longer keep up with the pace or scale of their operations. Tasks become more complex, and the...
