Losing money never feels good, especially when you know you could've avoided it. One of the hardest things for an estimator is to know how their estimate is being worked on the jobsite. Having access to concise, and accurate production details is critical to ensuring an accurate estimate. This is where Production History comes into play.
What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You
If you don’t know how your company is performing in the field, how can you accurately estimate it? In the past, if you wanted to understand how your field was performing on the jobs you had won, you would have to either have access to the job management software, collect data months later from your accounting/ERP system, or call the foreman or project manager and trust that the information you were getting was accurate enough to help you make good decisions.
No More Complicated Misinformation
Together, HeavyBid and HeavyJob function as a connected team, to bring estimating and operations in sync. No more long conversations on the phone, or delays from your analysts gathering financial data from your ERP, which may or may not translate well to actionable improvement. No more having to pay for extra licenses to operations programs that you would have to get trained on to fumble through cumbersome reports or Excel dumps. It’s just plain wrong to spend more time looking for the tool than fixing the problem.
You Deserve Clarity to Make Better Decisions
The solution is simple: when you turn on Production History in HeavyBid (a quick setting), you are giving yourself access to actual costs from live jobs in the field, that you can then filter down to suit your needs. Using that information, you can update your estimate with live productions from the field, ensuring your estimates accurately reflect how efficient your crews are. All of this is done without any time needed to conform and import data. The data comes formatted and ready to use for your purpose.
What’s the Catch?
What we estimate in the office vs how we build it in the field will never be 1 to 1. Why? Because we can never account for every unexpected event. However, we can see the production from the field after working through the unexpected. Using the time card data in HeavyJob, HeavyBid can present the average production rate on a job-by-job basis for each cost code in your comparison.
What Else Can I See?
We understand that not every job is going to be exactly the same, so you need to be able to see more than surface-level production data. By giving you details such as the list of each time card a cost code is entered in on a job and the breakdown of each of those time cards, you can compare production rates, crew makeup, and ensure you are estimating cost as close to reality in the field.
How Do I Get It?
If you don’t have HeavyBid or HeavyJob and want to see how this simple process can put faster, more accurate data in your estimator's hands, schedule a demo today. If you’d like to turn on this feature, call our support at 1-855-231-7876. We’ll answer any day, any time that you’re ready.
