Improving field productivity with Sage Construction Anywhere

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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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%Construction companies using mobile devices

31-39%Plan to increase use

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Mobile apps on the job

What are you using?

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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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Manual process = lower productivity

Paper time

sheets?

Excel?

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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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What would productivity look like for

your company?

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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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Browser-based plus mobile app

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Time Project files

Project reports

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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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Record details

• Notes• Start/stop time• Labor classification• Union class

• Identify

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Supervisor can enter time for multiple employees

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Review and approval before posting to Payroll

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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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Accurate, fast one-time entry

Faster reports

Timely decisions More profit

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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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Intuitive mobile app for quick uploads of photos and easy access to files.

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• Versioning • Audit log • New file alerts to

project home page and by email

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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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We have cut weeks off the time it takes us to close out a project.

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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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Call us at 800-628-6583 or contact your Sage business partner.

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