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Customers are concerned about:
11%
11%
18%
20%
26%
30%
41%
45%
Process inefficiencyEmployee retention
Labor shortageGovernment regulations
Increased competitionProfit margin erosion
Cost of materialsNew customers
Profit margin erosion 30%
Process inefficiency 11%Source: 2014 Sage Construction and Real Estate Survey
Any others?
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Customers say,
Accounting systems are fine, but we need more
. . . visibility and alerts to key project metrics, and we need it throughout the project.
We need this information in the office, in the trailer, on the job, and with the customer, at their office or wherever.
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Stuff happens in construction.
I need to respond quickly and keep things moving.
We travel more than ever to find work.
I can’t be constrained by being in the office to get things done.
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Worker mobility meets construction technology
54%manage projects remotely
67%report remotely from the field
Source: Constructech
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Sharing of drawings, schedules, photos, and documents
Access to customer and job
information
Access to job cost and
project reportsEntry of daily field reports
Time capture and approval
50% 49% 40%
Source: 2014 Sage Construction and Real Estate Survey
36% 30%
Mobile devices
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Steps to make productivity changes
1. Identify who uses mobile devices
2. Ask what your workers use
3. Identify your most important concerns
4. Create a mini-project plan
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Productivity issues can add up quickly.
A 3.0 percent increase in the cost of labor can translate to a 1.2 percent increase in the cost of a project.
Jones Lang LaSalle “Construction Outlook” Fall 2013
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Inefficient business processes account for 30 to 80 percent of the productivity gap within the United States, depending on the sector.
The greatest opportunity to increase productivity is to redesign processes and implement best-practice lean operations.
McKinsey Global Institute
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Performance monitoring
Changes, delays, accidents
Reporting
Team collaboration
How do we manage the needed improvements?
Project communications
Manual processes
Office to field connections
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39% 29% 26% 26% 24%
Cutexpenses
Hire moreemployees
Invest morein new
technology
Invest morein sales andmarketing
Automatemanual
processes
Sage customers: top planned 2014 actions
Source: 2014 Sage Construction and Real Estate Survey
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Access centralized data
Touch data once: use several times
Streamline data collection
Tax Executives Institute
From manual to automated:
• Up to a 50% reduction off total compliance time• Up to 90% off data collection and manipulation time
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Office and field disconnect = lower productivity
• Time—payroll submissionsPaper time sheets Spreadsheet reports
• Project documentsOffice, binder, dispersed
• Project reportsDelayed access
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Office to field connectivitySage Construction Anywhere
Home Office Project Site
Sage financial and operations software
Sage Construction
Anywhere
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Does this sound familiar?
We spend too much time shuffling
timesheets back and forth between the
office and the jobsite.
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Enter time
• Log employee time
• Link to job cost codes
• No cell service? Submit and autosendlater
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The monthly cost for our use of Sage Construction Anywhere is minimal—in fact I don’t know how Sage can offer this much for such a low cost. I could say it truly paid for itself in two or three days.
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We processed our third payroll using Sage Construction Anywhere this week. [The payroll administrator] had everything to me to check around 11:00. She was free to help me with accounts payable all afternoon. It was so awesome.
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Does this sound familiar?
We could have avoided doing this
twice if the team had been working with
the latest information.
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Does this sound familiar?
We don’t get always get information on
what is happening at the job site soon
enough. And it can impact profit margin.
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Project filesAnytime, anywhere
• One place for latest documents, drawings, and photos
• Made for construction companies
• Mobile app, tablet, laptop
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It’s invaluable when you’re on a piece of equipment. To be able to look down at your iPad and be able to see every aspect of the job in your hand without having to go to the office and dig through stacks of prints.
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Project reports• Make solid
decisions and act faster with anytime, anywhere access
• Control who receives which reports, inside and outside your company
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With Sage Construction Anywhere . . .
• Higher productivityOn-the-spot responses Smoother project experienceStreamlined processesVisibility into better decisions
• Increased bottom line
• Increased customer satisfaction
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Sage 100 Contractor
• Accounting• Estimating• Document management• Project management• Equipment management• Service management• Inventory management• Mobility: Sage Construction
Anywhere
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Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate
• Accounting• Estimating• MyAssistant• Document management• Project management• Service management• Property management• Mobility: Sage Construction
Anywhere
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From 2000-2014, Sage (and Timberline) were named technology enabler by our customers 48 times.
Trusted over 40 years
2001 20132002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2014
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