New Labor Planning and navigation features for construction contractors
At RIVET, we believe every job should have a Labor Plan. And that it should update in real-time and be visual – not just numbers on a spreadsheet. That’s because better construction Labor Planning leads to better project profitability and labor Productivity for contractors. It’s why we’re so excited to announce the latest updates to our Workforce Management platform.
The new and improved Job Homepage
Now project teams can see everything related to their jobs under one improved view, where everything is centered around the visual Labor Curve. Contractors rely on RIVET to build automated Labor Plans with adjustable Labor Curves for both active jobs and future bids.
“The Labor Curve visual is paramount,” said Paul Carollo, RIVET Product Manager. “Many of our contractors have WIP data integrated with RIVET from their ERP or HRIS systems, so they can see where they have over-utilization for both hours and labor costs on every project.
“Depending on their processes, they might also see Labor Requests on the curve, or which field workers are flagged for transfer to another job. The Labor Curve is vital to maintaining profitability on jobs, especially the larger a project is.”
Contractors can seamlessly navigate between project Labor Plans and the schedules assigned to those plans, a task that takes hours each week for contractors still using manpower spreadsheets.
RIVET’s new navigation experience
While this might seem like small potatoes, so much about gaining efficiency in construction comes back to organization and having good processes in place. So we’ve re-organized RIVET’s main navigation to make getting around core features more intuitive.
The Schedule Builder for construction project labor scheduling, one of RIVET’s most useful utility drawers, now has a home among other tools in the bottom left.
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Labor is the biggest risk to construction projects and can make or break project profitability. That’s why at RIVET our mission is for every contractor to have a labor plan, for every job, across the entire business.
How does your company tackle Labor Forecasting today? Do you have construction labor forecasting tools? Are you consistently scheduling to a Labor Plan? It’s common for project managers and labor managers to have a disconnect between the manpower spreadsheet, the scheduled assignments and the actual labor spend. We can help with that.
Get around RIVET faster with RIVET Finder – easily find jobs, workers and views
What if you could find any view, any worker or any job page in RIVET with a couple of clicks? Now you can, from anywhere in the app with RIVET Finder. Just mouse over to the navigation panel and type your query into the “Go To…” search box. Or, you can use keyboard shortcuts.
- Mac: Command + Enter
- Windows: Ctrl + Enter
RIVET Finder helps you find job Baseball Cards and you can even edit and view Job Homepages from the search results. RIVET Finder works a lot like the taskbar search in Windows and Spotlight Search on Mac, putting what you’re looking for right at your fingertips.
90 percent of RIVET features come from contractor requests. What new construction workforce productivity solutions would make your life easier? Let us know: rosie@rivet.work
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