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Would you send an Engineer to do an Installer’s job?  Starting a bid with unrealistic resource allocation assumptions will negatively impact project profitability before the job even begins.  It’s just one of the things to consider when bidding a project. Having the right people to do the right job is critical, but having realistic labor installation estimates is just as important to not only create a winning bid, but to create efficiencies in your overall project execution.

I hear from many people in operations that they are often setup to lose money on jobs before they schedule a single resource to the project because the labor estimates they are obligated to meet are not realistic.  With all the variables that can negatively affect the delivery of a job you certainly don’t want to start without enough hours to complete the job on paper.  That only leads to rushed work, which leads to re-work or it leads to profit killing overtime.

The Q360 Technology Platform Offers NSCA Members Efficiency and NSCA Best Practices to Enable Growth

MARCH 2013: NEWMARKET, ON – Solutions360 Inc., a leading provider of business management software announced a partnership with the National Systems Contractors Association (NSCA) to offer the Q360 Professional Services Automation software technology platform to NSCA members. The partnership was developed in order to provide integrators with a technology solution aimed at streamlining processes that create efficiency and provide opportunities to grow NSCA member businesses.

3 Steps to Get from Bad Data to Good Data

You can’t make good business decisions with dirty data. When you’re planning your resource allocation or you’re auditing your project accounting, if you don’t have one centralized business management software platform, there may be bad or missing data. That’s costing you precious money and time that can be better served helping your customers.

The Art & Science of a Good Project Job Costing Process

Not all projects are created equal. It would be nice if there was an exact science to bidding a project but sadly many factors come into play that could malign your latest bid. You need art and science, a job costing system in place, to make it work.

Solutions360, the market-leading professional services automation software company, is celebrating its Silver Anniversary in 2013. For 25 years, customers have depended on Solutions360 psa software to help run and grow their businesses. Solutions360 has led the industry across North America since the company first started development from humble premises in Ontario in 1988.

 

New Job Costing Survival Guide Illuminates Best Practices and Helps Businesses Assess their Current Job Costing Process to Ultimately Improve Project Profit Margins

 

As I review “As Is” business processes at new mid-size customers I constantly run into applications that claimed to be “integrated”.  Customers have environments that have integrated CRM, Accounting, Inventory, Job Costing, Project Management, etc.  However, rarely are these software systems truly integrated.  Behind the thin veil of “integration” is often a mess of data batching, incongruent information, orphaned data, re-keying of information and always lots and lots of spreadsheets cobbled together to try and make sense of it.   But the marketplace is full of “integrated software” claims so who can tell the difference or fathom the ramifications when you are researching and making a choice.  So let’s take a look at what “integrated” can actually mean.

The amount of paper used by businesses today is staggering. While the movement towards a paperless office has picked up over the past decade, there are still many ways you can reduce paper consumption. The reality is: often paperless is truly just less paper, but it doesn’t have to be that way. 

Automation in sales and marketing should be about improving the ability to deliver the right message to the right person at the right time via the right channel.