How does MidSize construction builders execute their site work ?

MidSized construction companies execute 5 to 10 sites at a time and also execute through out a year.

Construction builder - current process:

1. The back office team uses Excel sheet primarily for maintaining status, purchase , inventory, expense related data. 2. Site team(Supervisors) use Whatsapp primarily for their status update communication among them and also with back office.

Operations Process and communication:

1. Supervisors and back office team , project managers are forming different whatsapp group for different purposes. For example ,the following groups are formed - MaterialPurchase, Inventory, DailyAttendance, DailyWorkStatus 2. Back office team takes the data from whatsapp and they enter in excel sheet.

3.Back office team maintains different excel sheets for different purposes.

4.Back office team consolidates everything on excel sheet.

In the above steps, there are lot of data messup happens. Many data are missed. So ,probability of data correctness is not always less than 100%. Always , the data is going for correction/reconcillation.

DisAdvantages :

1.Data incorrectness

2.Communication gap between back office and site team

3.Data miss as there is no standard process for data format as well as communication

In order to solve this , definitely a system and process is needed.

1.System has to integrate back office and site team.

2.All communication has to happened through a single system which can be tracked by all members in system.

3.Data validation has to be done on correctness of data.

4.Reminder has to be sent on missing entries for all members timely.

SiteExpensify System implements this effectively.