U.S. home builder Comstock Homes has built over 2,200 homes in communities across Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina. Comstock has improved the scheduling & workflow of selling and building houses by using Builders Co-Pilot - an enterprise solution that allows your office staff, sub contractors, supervisors and sales representatives to share real-time information on the status of each home.
Managing more than one project with multiple supervisors, sales people and contractors is a difficult task in the construction industry.
Inside a growing company, it becomes an increasingly difficult task to manage costs while delivering superior customer service. There are solutions in the marketplace that address accounting, scheduling and sales & marketing, but each uses a different operating system and a different database - limiting the access to real-time data. These solutions do not work in an integrated and coordinated method. That is, until now.
Builders Co-Pilot™ was developed by iConnect Group to deliver such a solution that leverages the systems already in place at a construction company. Built on iConnect Group’s leading real-time business management enterprise architecture framework, Builders Co-Pilot™ uses a Microsoft Windows platform and can display the programs in either a web browser format or on a green screen.
"Your supervisors can manage work at twice as many homes. Instead of managing each house reactively, he can manage his day better and more productively."
The Solution:
(Builders Co-Pilot™ modules include)
- Sales Prospecting
- Scheduling
- Contacts
- Inventory
- Estimating
- Purchasing, Reports
- Production and
- Accounting
The Sales Prospecting module allows your Sales persons to easily see what lots and house types are available and build a profile of a house with all its options for field generated sales contacts.
The Scheduling module lets the company’s management monitor the status of each house under construction and also track the field supervisors planned tasks for the sub-contractors.
The Project Scheduling module can engage users in other forms of schedules beyond home construction, such as sales campaigns and office administration. A reporting module allows for daily reporting of key business activities and immediate hyper messaging delivered via email or pager. A manager can specify which events he or she wants to be notified of in a personalized daily report or via hyper message.
Online Construction Start Authorizations and point-of-sale color selections reduce mistakes and improve the just-in-time materials management of a construction company as well as its suppliers. Wireless access is also available, so supervisors in the field can walk through a house, sign-off on tasks, confirm payments to subcontractors and schedule the next job.
"We should save at least $1,000 per house in 2005, with more savings in coming years." - Greg Benson, President of Comstock Homes.
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