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Spent 8 months logging material costs manually before I saw the waste report
I kept telling my foreman that our software was just for scheduling and punch lists, so I tracked every lumber and fastener order in a spreadsheet. Last month the project manager ran a waste analysis in the same system I'd been ignoring, and it showed we overspent by about $4,700 on drywall alone because I never linked purchase orders to the job budget. The kicker was seeing the exact timestamp when the software flagged a price increase from our supplier in Tucson six weeks before I noticed it on the invoice. Now I'm wondering how many other guys are doing double data entry just because they don't trust the tool they already pay for. Anyone else have that moment where the report made you feel like an idiot in front of your whole crew?
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jamesm4823d ago
Man, that timestamp thing hits home. Six weeks of warning sitting right there and you're grinding through invoices like it's 1998. The real problem is nobody trains guys on the reporting side of these tools. You get shown how to make a punch list on day one and that's it. So you build your own spreadsheet because it feels safer, and now you're typing the same numbers twice. That double entry is where the money leaks out too, because the sheet and the system never match up. My guess is half the crews out there are running the same shadow system and the office has no clue.
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