What is Project management? Many things!
Eliminate bottlenecks. Manage both job and resource schedules.
Manage your job schedules, production, shop and dispatching of installation crews, all with one, easy to use system.
What kind of scheduling do fabricators need?
The most obvious list might include:
- Assign people to the work at hand: both shop work and installation
- Multiple crews and multiple jobs
- Manage equipment time
- Organize project schedules – “to do” lists
- Schedule work per week and anticipate future commitments
- Fabricators often have jobs where one set of tasks in completed in one time period (fabrication) then another set of tasks is completed in another time period (installation)
- Determine capacity to take on new work
More advanced functions might include:
Track employee time against hours budgeted
Analyze actual vs. budgeted production by type of project and other factors
Determine throughput and factors for process improvement
Integrate data with other production systems
Why haven’t these needs been met?
Manufacturing-type schedules
Feed info in, spits out a schedule: designed for machines making the same parts over and over.
Do not work because you need more flexibility: dealing with custom jobs and customers on pre and post production.
Construction, Gantt chart-type schedules
Designed big jobs and many steps
Assume the tasks will run basically continuously, one finishes and then the next one starts. You may have many tasks separated by several days or even weeks.
These systems are often complex and take many weeks to learn and use
Dispatching scheduling doesn’t work
Existing dispatch boards may work OK for assigning work to crews, but these are generally limited in functions and to not have the depth to really do the job
Do not work well for fabrication/installation jobs with multiple tasks
What is possible now with zScheduler?
Know exactly what project tasks will need to be accomplished and the timing for each
Easily dispatch and assign not only crews, but also equipment and sub-contractors
Be confident that you can take on more work without getting into a bind with overbooking
Learn more and more about your company’s productivity by tracking budgeted vs. actual time for different crews and different types of jobs, so you can adjust future jobs for more profitability
zScheduler: The best system available for fabricators
Developed specifically for sub-contractor and fabricator industries. 
Created from many years of experience of the fabrication industry and with the help of leading fabricators, this is an amazing system.
It has both job and resource schedules and provides flexible scheduling in multiple formats.
It is tightly integrated with Sage Master Builder
There is simply nothing else like it available anywhere else.
zScheduler: the easiest scheduler to learn and use
What should you do now?
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No risk guarantee.
Try zScheduler risk free for 30 days.
We are confident that you will be amazed at how much easier it is use compared to manual or other traditional Gantt chart type scheduling systems.
Prove to yourself how much time you can save producing schedules and assigning work to employees and equipment.
Your biggest risk is doing nothing and using less efficient systems, wasting countless hours and a lot of money.
Guaranteed ease of use.
Schedulers can learn how to do complete, multi-activity jobs in a couple of hours.
Absolutely the fastest and easiest scheduling tool you can use for the type of multi-job, multi-task schedules you need to do.
How do you manage purchasing?
- Purchasing and inventory management can take an enormous amount of time and is not often accounted for. Don’t lose money on jobs by wasting it on inefficient purchasing practices.
Why haven’t these needs been met?
Most fabricators use manual systems to do purchasing, paper forms, which are labor intensive to fill-in and track.
Bill paying is not linked to orders, except by manual review and is prone to errors resulting in overpayments or more time to straighten out the mess.
What is possible now with zEstimator and Master Builder?
From zEstimator, you can automatically produce purchase orders for materials. Then, in Master Builder, you can track those orders and automatically pull them up for payment, saving much time and many errors.
What are your documentation needs?
You may not think you need recorded documentation, until you find yourself in a dispute and need to prove your position. Then, those with the best documentation usually win.
Why haven’t these needs been met?
Paper systems basically work, in terms of documenting a job, but they take a lot of time to keep up and so sometimes important documents are not prepared or are misplaced.
Construction-type documents are not available from MRP (manufacturing) software systems.
Having to enter the same information numerous times is a tedious and disheartening task.
It is again, labor intensive, to get reports, usually with data manually entered into spreadsheets.
What is possible now with zEstimator and Master Builder?
Master Builder
Produces, maintains and tracks subcontractor business documents
Preliminary lien information and notices
Change orders: most important to document approval and billing
Progress billing: billing for partial completion on larger job
Certified payroll: essential for government work
And many other similar necessary documents
Produces, maintains and tracks general construction documents
Many cabinet and fabrication companies also do construction work. This system easily manages construction documentation
Subcontracts
Subcontract change orders
Plan records: documentation of plan revisions sent
Secondary payees with joint checks
What should you do now?
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How do you collect employee time?
- TracManager - from Tractivity,
- This software management system processes and reports activity and process costs for jobs, projects, or products so that effective action can be taken to improve profitability.
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