BMHC
ToolWatch Helps SelectBuild Save More Than $400,000 Annually—System Ready for Rollout across SelectBuild organization
Situation
Power to the people. It may sound like the lyrics to a classic rock anthem, but for SelectBuild, it's just a principle of smart business. A subsidiary of BMHC, SelectBuild provides turnkey construction services to the country's highest-volume production homebuilders, including concrete, plumbing, framing, HVAC, stucco and other services. Operating in 10 western and southern states, the company's decentralized structure allows specific locations to identify opportunities to improve business practices that help the company meet or exceed customers' expectations. In other words, the people who work in the trenches have a voice in making the business better.
When two SelectBuild locations, located in Northern California and Las Vegas, Nevada, separately raised concerns about similar problems in their tool warehouses, SelectBuild knew they were facing a widespread company issue. Each location was losing between $2,500 and $20,000 worth of tools each month. And this number was just raw tool costs, one that only grew when the company factored in the time spent checking tools in and out using inefficient, inconsistent systems and replacing items the company already owned.
Solution
Kari Lopez, director of business systems for SelectBuild's parent company, BMHC, was assigned to assess the problem and find a suitable solution that could be applied company-wide. Right away, she identified attributes that would be key to the solution's success.
"The system had to be easy to use and integrate with our current accounting system. When we took a look at what we wanted the program to accomplish for us, we realized that ToolWatch was the best option," Lopez explained.
Encouraged by ToolWatch's comprehensive features, including the ability to flag low levels of consumable items, SelectBuild began a detailed implementation process, bringing together field personnel, the IT team and ToolWatch experts to make sure the tool management system would work seamlessly with software the company already had in place. SelectBuild ran a two-month pilot program to ensure that ToolWatch could work within the company's business processes and would provide the benefits employees needed. The pilot also gave them a chance to smooth any snags that could arise once the system was live.
Result
The two SelectBuild pilot locations that initially raised concerns about their tool management systems have transitioned ToolWatch into their daily operations. Six months after implementation, the results have been even better than Lopez expected. The initial savings analysis indicates the company will save more than $400,000 a year just by using ToolWatch in the Las Vegas and Northern California locations. This savings includes quantifiable improvements to the company's warehouse processes as well—more than 5,600 hours in time saved each year, which accounts for more than $150,000 of the total annual savings.
"ToolWatch has let us spend less time monitoring inventory levels and consolidate purchase orders," explained Lopez. "That means we're not only saving time on all those activities, we've been able to reassign employees new responsibilities and get more tasks done every day."
That makes two down, more than 30 SelectBuild locations to go. As SelectBuild presents its impressive results to the company management team, new locations have the opportunity to adopt ToolWatch themselves. And if their results mirror those of Las Vegas and Northern California, SelectBuild's financial rewards will increase exponentially.
Flint Energy Services
Flint Energy Services Keeps Tools in the Pipeline—Oilfield production services provider tracks 60,000 tools with ToolWatch
Situation
Like many companies that grow through conglomeration, Flint Energy Services—formed in 1998 from 32 separate companies—found itself with tens of thousands of tools it had no way to track.
Flint Energy Services is an integrated midstream oilfield production services provider headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, with 4,500 employees, 41 locations, and jobsites all over western Canada and the northwestern United States. A single jobsite might employ as many as 600 workers for two years, using multiple tool cribs on each site. But Flint had no systematic method for keeping track of its tool inventory, not even a simple spreadsheet.
As a result, tools purchased for certain jobs might be misplaced before the project began and replacements often had to be purchased for deployment to the site. Then, on the jobsite, workers would take tools from one part of the site to another, to the point that the company had to dedicate several employees to scouring the entire site looking for tools needed on another part of the project. So not only was the company losing big money in lost tools, it was racking up hefty personnel costs just to look for missing items—which might or might not be located.
Solution
The ToolWatch tool and equipment management system proved itself from day one. The first company to implement all four ToolWatch modules (consumables tracking, service tracking, tool and equipment billing, and purchasing), Flint is now well into its implementation process.
Because there had been no system before ToolWatch, Flint tools and small equipment coordinator Ken Bekar started from scratch two years ago, beginning with a single project, applying barcodes, and entering every item either individually or by identity (hammers, wrenches, etc.) into four ToolWatch databases. Bekar has become so adept at using all the ToolWatch bells and whistles that he's become a power user who can solve most of the issues that arise with the system. When he can't, he has been impressed with ToolWatch's willingness to tweak the software to accommodate his needs.
The purchasing module has proved especially valuable to Bekar. Buying tools on site, rather than through a corporate bidding process, didn't give him the luxury of detailed price comparisons. "I can't imagine operating without it," Bekar said. "Now we can keep tabs on vendor price increases, and I can pool the orders to negotiate more favorable costs."
With ToolWatch's certification tracking feature, Bekar has been able to anticipate and respond to Canada's tightened Occupational Safety and Health regulations, avoiding significant potential liability. Using ToolWatch Mobile on a pocket PC, he tracks employee training and certification, assuring that workers have been trained for certain tasks and tools before they are permitted to check out those items on a site.
Result
Two years into the implementation process, Bekar's team has entered 20,000 tool identities or individual items so far, about one third of the probable inventory. He plans to complete the process by 2007. But there have been dramatic changes already.
Now, instead of workers lining up at the tool crib for tools that weren't available, they have a sophisticated management system that makes everyone accountable. Tool loss no longer shuts down the project pipeline.
GEM Plumbing & Heating
GEM Plumbing & Heating Saves Money, Empowers Employees with Help from ToolWatch System
Situation
Innovation, creativity and empowerment arent words generally associated with the plumbing trade. Unless youre talking about Rhode Islands GEM Plumbing & Heating, that is.
About four years ago, GEM had reached a point in its growth where it had to make a choice: cut back operations or dramatically change the way they operated. They couldnt raise rates—the market was maxed out—so they decided to completely overhaul the way they did business.
Solution
One of their fundamental decisions was to focus on their core business—which was not managing their inventory. They contracted with Ferguson Integrated, a division of the countrys largest plumbing supply wholesaler, to manage their inventory on-site. GEM doesn't pay salaries for the half-dozen Ferguson workers and doesn't even pay for the $500,000 worth of inventory kept on the warehouse shelves at any one time until each piece is used.
But before turning the inventory over to Ferguson, GEM wanted to make sure everything was in order. They researched a number of tool tracking programs, looking for something that would take them into the future. While other products had useful features, they required gatekeepers to manage the program, which would be cumbersome and expensive because they required additional manpower to run. ToolWatch seemed ahead of the pack in keeping up with technological developments such as partnering with Bosch in offering RFID tracking systems. ToolWatchs wireless technology, which let them transfer information from the field, was another strong selling point. That meant lower labor costs because staff could update information quickly and efficiently. ToolWatch also fit seamlessly into GEMs business model, saving—not costing—time.
There was some initial resistance to investing $25,000 in the ToolWatch system, said GEM vice president of operations Larry Gemma. But in just nine months, replacement tool purchases were down more than $65,000. And because tools are monitored, Gemma estimates he gets at least another years use out of every tool.
GEMs unique tool rental program charges employees for the length of time a tool is checked out, encouraging employees to return tools to the central warehouse as quickly as possible for use by others. Now that tools are monitored with ToolWatch, employees are more careful with their tools, because they know broken items will be charged back to them in the form of payroll deductions or reduced bonuses. And it works both ways—workers notice that with tool tracking not only will they have a tool when they need it, it will be in good condition and ready to use. They appreciate that.
Result
GEM has grown comfortably from 125 to 325 people over the last four years, smashing every stereotype about the plumbing business along the way. GEM is one of the most technologically aggressive plumbing outfits in the world, Gemma says. In fact, GEM has won numerous awards for its innovations. Its GEM University trains and empowers its employees—and even those of its competitors—to do their jobs better, including the use of their tools. In fact, the ToolWatch system is often part of the GEM University curriculum.
JE Dunn Northwest
JE Dunn - NW Gets 16% Boost to Bottom Line with ToolWatch in Six Months—ToolWatch system saves $200,000 and pays for itself in first month of use
Situation
JE Dunn-Northwest, a subsidiary of JE Dunn Construction with offices in Portland and Seattle, needed a better tool management system, and they needed it yesterday. With 10 to 20 large jobsites operating simultaneously as far away as Alaska, each renting nearly $30 thousand in tools every month, management knew they needed tight control over the consumable and rental inventory.
But they didnt have control. The one-size-fits-all system JE Dunn was using had long ago outlived its usefulness. It was a paper-driven process, subject to human forgetfulness and disorganization. Plus, the system didnt track exactly where tools were, and sometimes rental items werent billed. Not only were drills and loaders and the like hard to pinpoint. To emphasize the point, immediately after installing ToolWatch, the only manlift in inventory was discovered by ToolWatch at a jobsite not accruing rent. The system, in identifying this error, immediately billed the job for three months back rent. Without ToolWatch in place, this error could have gone unnoticed for a number of months more costing the company several thousands of dollars in lost revenue.
Thinking a custom tool-tracking system was the answer, JE Dunn management was dismayed to learn that designing, testing and implementing a custom system would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars—and take more time than was feasible in their deadline-critical business. So they hired an independent contractor with an interest but little specific expertise to do the job.
Predictably, that approach didnt work, and time was wasting. They had to find an accurate, reliable system immediately.
Solution
A local company that partnered with JE Dunn had been using ToolWatch for inventory management. They offered to demonstrate the system to JE Dunn management, who were immediately sold. ToolWatch provided exactly what they needed, with superior, comprehensive features at a reasonable price—right out of the box. It was easy to use, tracking by barcodes, not slips of paper that could be misplaced. Even consumable supplies can be accounted for easily. ToolWatch reduced human error, too, by prompting users to explain incorrect transfers. When JE Dunn began cataloging their equipment using the ToolWatch system, it became apparent that they were missing some of the smaller tools they thought they had—and had more than they thought of others.
Result
Within six months of recording new tools and logging in returns from jobsites, JE Dunn finally had a solid handle on their real $2.5 million tool inventory. They have dramatically improved efficiency and slashed paperwork, another important objective.
With ToolWatch, we save time preparing for upcoming jobs, said Jim Grabski, director of finance. We use tools more effectively because we know when they are coming off jobsites and immediately reassign them. ToolWatch paid for itself in the first month.
ToolWatch not only paid for itself, but made a significant positive impact on the bottom line: From July through December 2003, JE Dunn identified an additional $200,000 in revenue, improving the companys financial performance by 16 percent. The company attributes that immediate, tangible return on investment directly to their purchase of ToolWatch.
Executive
Comprehensive, On-Demand, Strategic
Today's construction organizations need much more than best-in-class software. They also need a set of consistent and proven business processes. They need world-class professional services and support to ensure that the initiative succeeds. And they demand practical and user-friendly technology that their employees will
want to use.
That's what makes ToolWatch so different from other options. ToolWatch is about much more than software. It is an on-demand strategic business solution encompassing technology, professional services and proven best practices. And it was built from the ground up to optimize resource management processes through a single, integrated view of your operations.
It is this holistic view that allows ToolWatch to deliver construction resource management success—even breathe new life into companies caught in a downward spiral of declining profitability.
Actionable Intelligence for Improved Business Decisions
Graphical and intuitive executive dashboards allow you to instantly see and analyze critical information about your construction resources. You can see a summarized view of all your physical assets without any additional effort. And, if needed, you can easily drill down to get more detail in any area.
Reports and graphs summarize the hundreds or even thousands of construction resource transactions your company processes every week. That gives you the actionable intelligence you need to make proactive and informed business decisions. Answers to important questions such as:
- What construction resources (if any) should you purchase in order to improve field productivity?
- Which construction resources are costing the company money?
- Which ones are making the company money—and why?
- Are you getting the best utilization out of your resources? If not, what can you do to improve that utilization?
Results You Demand from Your Technology Investments
At the end of the day, better decisions help you reduce costs, increase profitability and improve your competitive advantage—precisely the kinds of results today's leading construction companies demand from their technology investments. And precisely the reason that most ToolWatch customers recoup their investment in less than six months.
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Tool Crib Manager
Making Life Easier for Tool Crib Managers
Tool cribs and equipment storage areas cannot become bottlenecks. Tools and equipment need to move. But every company also needs accountability for its vital construction resources.
ToolWatch is so easy to use that both of these problems are eliminated at once. There's no paperwork to fill out. No typing. You always know who has what. You know where items are, when they're due, who had them last and when they're up for maintenance. And automated checkout features help move personnel through smart checkpoints even faster than grocery store scanners.
Eliminate Early-Morning and End-of-Shift Bottlenecks
Getting a high volume of items into the tool crib at the end of the work shift has always been the real test. With features like touch-screens, ToolWatch makes you more efficient by allowing you to navigate the computer screen using your fingers, rather than a mouse or keyboard (much like the touch-screens used in restaurants).
And the ToolWatch "Express Check-In" feature lets you check items in and out faster by scanning a ToolWatch bar code label on an employee's hard hat. This allows you to see a photo of the worker and all the items already checked out to them. You'll quickly see how many items have been issued to each individual, and how long they've had them. The result? Reduced tool loss and employee tool hoarding.
Automate Routine Purchasing Activities
ToolWatch enables you to set desired levels for tools, materials and consumables. This includes minimum and maximum thresholds for every item. When an item approaches its trigger point, ToolWatch alerts you, allowing you to take action before the item runs out. Ready to cut a PO? No problem. Simply select the items you want from the alert list and the system automatically sends them over to a ToolWatch PO, complete with accurate vendor part numbers and pricing.
Simplify Tool and Equipment Maintenance Management
ToolWatch automatically notifies you when service events are coming due. It tracks the costs and service history for all your tools, equipment and vehicles. It pinpoints where you're spending your time and repair budget. And it enables you to easily keep detailed records of calibrations and inspections to meet OSHA requirements.
Designed by Industry Insiders That Understand Your World
ToolWatch helps you and your people get more done. No wasted motion, no extra steps. Better yet, it's so well conceived that it eliminates the human desire to take shortcuts.
That's because ToolWatch was designed by construction industry insiders. People who understand that what you don't need is added complexity in your job. And what you could use are ways to make your day-to-day responsibilities easier, better, more efficient.
Equipment Manager
Gain Instant and Accurate Equipment Information
Field productivity can make or break a job. That's why equipment that can't be found will often have to be purchased or rented. But unplanned purchases and rentals can quickly eat into the project's profitability. And lost or missing equipment can lead to project delays, unhappy clients, costly overtime and frustrated field personnel.
ToolWatch drastically improves your visibility into equipment inventory while increasing your productivity. It puts time back into your day by helping you get your equipment deployed, picked up, checked in and serviced faster—with no paperwork. And the accurate and timely equipment utilization information ToolWatch delivers helps you make better purchasing and asset management decisions.
Improve Equipment Visibility
The Tool Browser in ToolWatch enables you to have complete visibility of equipment across your organization. You can view tools and equipment at other warehouse facilities, job sites, even trucks. The browser not only tells you where equipment is located, but also when it's scheduled to return.
GPS Tracking enables you to instantly see big-ticket assets on a map. You can even select a specific type of item (compressors only, for example) in one geographic area. This helps you make fast, accurate and cost-effective decisions about dispatching equipment when and where needed.
Deploy Equipment More Efficiently
Pick Tickets and Templates in ToolWatch allow you to communicate electronically with the warehouse. You can easily specify what equipment needs to be delivered to a project, and when it must be there. Templates also enable you to "memorize" typical orders so they can be automatically entered on a pick ticket or transfer, saving you valuable time.
Plan Your Equipment Resources More Effectively
And coming in 2009, requisition and scheduling functionality will help you schedule and commit equipment and materials to projects. This will enable you to do comprehensive resource planning and allow field personnel to electronically requisition equipment.
Designed by Industry Insiders That Understand Your World
ToolWatch helps you and your people get more done. No wasted motion, no extra steps. Better yet, it's so well conceived that it eliminates the human desire to take shortcuts.
That's because ToolWatch was designed by construction industry insiders. People who understand that what you don't need is added complexity in your job. And what you could use are ways to make your day-to-day responsibilities easier, better, more efficient.
Field Staff
Improve Field Performance and Morale
As a construction professional, getting the job done right and on time hinges on having access to the right tools, equipment and materials—when and where they're needed.
ToolWatch helps ensure that field personnel have the construction resources they need to perform at high levels. It virtually eliminates the paperwork that gets in the way of their job. And it helps reduce the stress and frustration that comes from long lines at the tool crib, incorrectly delivered items, missing components from toolstore, the classic "missing tool" drama.
Best part—ToolWatch may just be the best software program the field may never use! That's because the system works behind the scenes to make all of this happen for them, enabling the warehouse and tool crib to consistently deliver the right tools and materials on time.
That means no more wrong items because of inaccurate part numbers. No more missing components from tools. No more tool and equipment "mysteries" to solve.
Wouldn't that be something?
Service Manager
Maintenance Management Without the Paperwork (or the Headaches!)
ToolWatch helps you streamline the maintenance and repair management process—with less paper, less effort and less stress. It enables you to maintain high levels of equipment uptime and reliability. And it allows you to easily keep detailed records of calibrations and inspections to meet OSHA requirements.
Manage Service Requests More Efficiently
ToolWatch enables field personnel to initiate service requests via a wireless mobile device. Requests automatically generate notifications, which the service manager can view on their ToolWatch dashboard and daily reports. This increased automation saves time. It promotes improved communication between the field and the service department. And it ensures that resources are serviced and repaired before issues escalate.
Work Orders Without the Dreaded Paperwork
ToolWatch digital work orders contain all of the tasks and materials necessary to complete a service event. Service technicians can easily retrieve work orders via a wireless mobile device, desktop or printed form. The system automatically manages the billing of labor and materials for every service event. And it keeps service personnel from having to generate paperwork on what needs to be done, what was done, who did it, how long it took and what it cost.
Service Templates Simplify the Maintenance Process
Service templates help you establish what should be done during a service event. Delivered in a checklist format, the template lists all of the tasks and total expected labor required. It also details all of the consumable items needed, along with their part numbers.
This approach enables a service manager to electronically attach a template to an asset and designate the frequency of the service. When service is due, ToolWatch automatically generates a work order, complete will all the information necessary to complete and document the work. No paperwork. No hassle.
Improved Inspection and Calibration Management
Proper inspection, calibration and maintenance of construction resources are vital to your company's success. That's why ToolWatch includes rich functionality to help you optimize this essential operational area.
Designed by Industry Insiders That Understand Your World
ToolWatch helps you and your people get more done. No wasted motion, no extra steps. Better yet, it's so well conceived that it eliminates the human desire to take shortcuts.
That's because ToolWatch was designed by construction industry insiders. People who understand that what you don't need is added complexity in your job. And what you could use are ways to make your day-to-day responsibilities easier, better, more efficient.
Safety Officer
Promote a Safe Workplace and Mitigate Risk
ToolWatch helps keep your company in compliance with mandated safety regulations and MSDS requirements. It helps ensure that all of your tools and equipment meet the mandated testing, certifications and calibration specifications—and that all employees are properly certified and trained for the safe use of equipment.
Easily Track Tests and Calibrations
ToolWatch helps you save time and ensure you don't miss any critical events. The system enables you to schedule recurring testing and calibration events for each tool or piece of equipment. The frequency can be based on calendar days, mileage, hours used, turns or whichever comes first.
Improve Visibility Into Future Service Events
The service schedule in ToolWatch displays a list of all tools and equipment coming due for calibration or testing. This helps ensure that items are returned to the testing facility in an orderly and planned process, without disrupting work in progress. Visibility into the schedule also enables you to allocate testing resources and level the schedule to eliminate bottlenecks or costly overtime.
Enable Regulatory Compliance
Easily establish required employee certifications for tools and equipment to comply with mandated regulations. For instance, ToolWatch enables you to link employee certifications to specific tools. That way, when a worker attempts to check out tools, the system will first verify to ensure that the worker is certified to use all requested items. If the worker has not been certified—or if their certification has expired—ToolWatch will notify the tool crib attendant.
Save Time and Ensure Consistency
ToolWatch Templates enable you to establish testing requirements, certification procedures and calibration tolerances for each tool or equipment model. When a new item is purchased, Templates automatically assign the necessary safety properties and testing steps to that item. This ensures consistency with critical safety issues while saving valuable time.
Generate Reports to Substantiate Your Company's Safety Efforts
ToolWatch provides the reporting you need to substantiate your organization's safety program. The ability to prove that the appropriate safety testing was performed can save your company hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages or fines should it be inspected by OSHA, or in the event of a serious accident.
Purchasing Manager
An Easier Way to Track and Manage Purchases
Today's fast-paced construction environment demands that warehouses and tool cribs are stocked with the items the field needs to get the job done on time. Stockouts or errors can lead to project delays, costly tool rentals or purchases.
ToolWatch was especially designed to help you streamline the tool, equipment, material and consumables purchasing and receiving process. Low-level alerts notify you when items reach their reorder points. And the automated PO-creation and receiving process saves you time and increases PO and inventory accuracy.
Avoid Stockouts through Proactive Alerts
ToolWatch allows you to set desired levels for tools and materials. This includes minimum and maximum thresholds for every item. When an item approaches its trigger point, ToolWatch alerts you. You can then easily select items to purchase and electronically send them to a PO with the correct SKU/catalog numbers and price for the selected vendor already in place.
Simplify the PO Process While Increasing Accuracy
The PO-creation process in ToolWatch is virtually instantaneous. Conduct "what if" analyses by changing the vendor information at the top of a PO. And when you change from one vendor to another, the PO will change the specific part numbers, contract pricing, total cost and expected delivery for that vendor. Once done, the PO can be printed, automatically emailed or faxed.
Automate the Receiving Process
By storing vendor-specific SKU, catalog numbers and negotiated pricing for each item in your database, ToolWatch enables you to easily determine when you're incorrectly invoiced. It compiles the information into a report that you can present to the vendor, including all the necessary details to request credits due. This helps you save time, track costly pricing errors and keep your vendors on their toes.
Improve Vendor Billing Accuracy
By storing vendor-specific SKU, catalog numbers and negotiated pricing for each item in your database, ToolWatch enables you to easily determine when you're incorrectly invoiced. It compiles the information into a report that you can present to the vendor, including all the necessary details to request credits due. This helps you save time, track costly pricing errors and keep your vendors on their toes.
Accounting Manager
Save Time While Improving Job Cost and Customer Billing Accuracy
ToolWatch helps you improve profitability and job cost accuracy by enabling you to "bill" customers (or your own company) for the use of tools, equipment, materials, consumables and equipment service costs—in less time, with less paperwork and with fewer errors.
Even if you don't bill tools and equipment to your customers, ToolWatch enables you to better track job costs and project profitability, without the hassles of a manual or forms-based system.
Improve Visibility Into All Unbilled Charges
Quickly see all charges available to be billed without any paper or manual calculations. The ToolWatch billing browser displays a list of all transactions (tools, materials service costs) that have not been billed or posted to a billing period. The browser can even display only those charges for a particular cost center or date range.
Post Tool & Equipment Transactions Faster
The ToolWatch billing wizard enables you to select one or more cost centers or customers to post transactions to. It also walks you through the entire process. You'll save time, post transactions more frequently and improve accuracy.
Reduce Errors By Integrating with Your Accounting System
Save time and reduce the chance of errors by having ToolWatch integrated with your accounting system at the job cost or general ledger level. The integration is easily accomplished using "Web services" or exported data files.
Easily Generate the Information You Need—Organized the Way You Want it
ToolWatch has an extensive array of reports that summarize and detail pre- and post- billing information. Reports can even be generated using several filters, including cost center, cost code and type of transaction. Produce information before billing so you can easily make decisions about which jobs to bill or what the projected revenue will be. And easily generate detailed information to accompany invoices. Information that can help speed up and simplify collections.
Warehouse Manager
Making Life Easier for Warehouse and Yard Managers
You shoulder tremendous responsibility as a warehouse or yard manager. Your ability to consistently deliver the right tools and materials to the field can dramatically impact field performance and project profitability. So when the field doesn't have the right tools, equipment or materials on time, the business can suffer. And so can your reputation.
ToolWatch helps you to more easily fulfill requests for tools, equipment, materials and consumables. It puts time back into your day by helping you manage these important resources faster, more efficiently. And with virtually no paper.
Fewer Steps and Less Paperwork
For instance, you'll save time and avoid headaches with a streamlined pick ticket process. ToolWatch mobile scanning devices help you fulfill orders from electronic pick tickets faster, more accurately, and with less paperwork. You'll have a more efficient way of getting the right items go to the right jobs. You'll help keep field staff productive. All with fewer "fires" and less stress.
Simplify Tool and Equipment Maintenance Management
ToolWatch automatically notifies you when service events are coming due. It tracks the costs and service history for all your tools, equipment and vehicles. It pinpoints where you're spending your time and repair budget. And it enables you to easily keep detailed records of calibrations and inspections to meet OSHA requirements.
Make Your Delivery Personnel More Effective
Just like the big package-delivery companies, ToolWatch provides simple mobile computing devices that streamline the process of delivering or picking up tools, equipment and materials. These handheld devices even capture digital signatures and print receipts in the field. And that translates into higher accountability and reduced employee tool hoarding.
Automate Routine Purchasing Activities
ToolWatch enables you to set desired levels for tools, materials and consumables. This includes minimum and maximum thresholds for every item. When an item approaches its trigger point, ToolWatch alerts you, allowing you to take action before the item runs out. Ready to cut a PO? No problem. Simply select the items you want from the alert list and the system automatically sends them to a ToolWatch PO, complete with accurate vendor part numbers and pricing.
Designed by Industry Insiders That Understand Your World
ToolWatch helps you and your people get more done. No wasted motion, no extra steps. Better yet, it's so well conceived that it eliminates the human desire to take shortcuts.
That's because ToolWatch was designed by construction industry insiders. People who understand that what you don't need is added complexity in your job. And what you could use are ways to make your day-to-day responsibilities easier, better, more efficient.
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