PrimaDonna
Megatron
2017 is going to be a big year for us to get our internal systems more streamlined and efficient. As we are growing, and setting up the business for possible future sale if the kids don't take an interest, we realize the need for better more efficient and user friendly systems.
While I love all the stuff we have from SFS and it's given us a great foundation ....'tis the digital age. Time to free ourselves of paper/clipboard check lists, written time off requests and time sheets, to do lists etc.
We are transitioning to a cloud based system that will have everything at everyone's fingertips. Truck needs a repair....log in to the system and submit a repair order. Tag the person that needs to follow up on it. Track the progress (scheduled, in shop, complete).
No more paper Daily Production log where the guys write when they left the shop, when they arrived at job, odomotor reading, when machine was turned on, machine hours, when turned off, when they left the job, when they arrived at the next, when they stopped for lunch or gas. They will just enter on their phones. Then anyone anywhere can log on and see progress. Need to pull Daily Production from last month...just log on and pull it up. No need to flip through the 3 ring binder. The "user" that logs the info is time stamped and you can see who was the person to enter the info.
Something missing on the truck?....log on to the system and see who did the inventory the day before. Add a note right then and there that something was missing....alert sent to whole team.
I'm really excited about this software. I think it will be a great addition to SM (even tho it too has a CRM Feature, we won't do invoicing through this program). No more Drop Box or google apps to store documents, etc which requires moving between programs.
So it got me thinking....how are others doing it? What types of systems do you use....still paper and pencil, storing things in a three ring binder? Who is doing things in software/cloud? What are you using?
(Marty we know you are still in the stone ages....)
While I love all the stuff we have from SFS and it's given us a great foundation ....'tis the digital age. Time to free ourselves of paper/clipboard check lists, written time off requests and time sheets, to do lists etc.
We are transitioning to a cloud based system that will have everything at everyone's fingertips. Truck needs a repair....log in to the system and submit a repair order. Tag the person that needs to follow up on it. Track the progress (scheduled, in shop, complete).
No more paper Daily Production log where the guys write when they left the shop, when they arrived at job, odomotor reading, when machine was turned on, machine hours, when turned off, when they left the job, when they arrived at the next, when they stopped for lunch or gas. They will just enter on their phones. Then anyone anywhere can log on and see progress. Need to pull Daily Production from last month...just log on and pull it up. No need to flip through the 3 ring binder. The "user" that logs the info is time stamped and you can see who was the person to enter the info.
Something missing on the truck?....log on to the system and see who did the inventory the day before. Add a note right then and there that something was missing....alert sent to whole team.
I'm really excited about this software. I think it will be a great addition to SM (even tho it too has a CRM Feature, we won't do invoicing through this program). No more Drop Box or google apps to store documents, etc which requires moving between programs.
So it got me thinking....how are others doing it? What types of systems do you use....still paper and pencil, storing things in a three ring binder? Who is doing things in software/cloud? What are you using?
(Marty we know you are still in the stone ages....)
