Construction Planning for General Contractors
CONSTRUCTION PLANNING CHALLENGES
Delays are a constant problem in construction–you must meet your deadlines.
Everything Keeps Slipping
- Labor shortages, material availability, and rework cause your schedule to slip
- Reliable promises are difficult to come by
Hard to Collaborate
- Among subcontractors
- Between subs and material suppliers
- With other stakeholders – owner and architect
No Project Insights
- Lack of visibility of problems building on the jobsite
- You can’t improve what you can’t measure
- Management can’t see cause of delays
Wasted Time… Waiting
- Jobsite not ready
- Missed handoffs
- Rework
Your alternatives look bleak.
ALTERNATIVES
100+ Calls by Lunch
- Taking hours to make dozens of phone calls and texts to coordinate between multiple teams, suppliers, and contractors
Multiple Spreadsheets
- Hours spent building and communicating Look-Ahead schedules
- Working in silos to create and adjust specific spreadsheets
Time in the Office
- Walking back and forth to the trailer to review the plan and make adjustments
5 REASONS TO CONSIDER
BEST SOFTWARE FOR CONSTRUCTION PLANNING
There are five main reasons to consider Touchplan:
1. BEST Planning and Daily Recovery
2. BEST Project Data and Analytics
3. MOST Collaborative
4. EASIEST to Use
5. BEST Customer Service
Let’s consider each of these reasons in detail.
1. BEST CONSTRUCTION PLANNING & DAILY RECOVERY
Touchplan has collaborative pull planning, with weekly work planning, milestone dates and look-aheads.
Digital Pull Planning
- Transform your spreadsheets to a collaborative plan
- ALL stakeholders are involved in the process and updated in real time on everyone’s phone, tablet, or computer
- Project templates and bulk ticket functions make it easy to plan and re-plan
Master Schedule Alignment
- Align your master schedule easily
- View your project plans side by side with your master schedule
- Ensure that milestones are reached and that the project is moving forward
Look-Ahead Planning
- Create custom Look-Ahead durations instantly
- Enable team members to accurately sequence tasks, keeping members aligned, accountable, and deliver on time
Real-Time Updates
- Real-time updates for ALL stakeholders are made easier with Touchplan for mobile
- Easily view tasks, updates, and the overall plan to stay on track in the field
Variance Reasons
- Track reasons why a task was not completed on time
- Help you re-plan and proactively adjust on the fly
2. BEST PROJECT DATA & ANALYTICS
Touchplan provides actionable insights to proactively deliver projects faster.
Actionable Insights
- Review accurate, real-time project metrics down to the field level
- See problems in advance and make timely decisions to avoid future delays (like Waze with traffic jams)
Dashboard Views
- View all of your data in a simple visual dashboard
- Easily understand project status
Top Performers
- Track promises made vs. promises fulfilled
- Easily identify which trades/suppliers need attention
Reliable Promising
- Calculate a reliable promise date for milestone/project completion
- More accurate forecasting to keep projects on or ahead of schedule
Budget and Time Overrun
- Track where and how much a project is going over time and budget
3. MOST COLLABORATIVE
Touchplan combines the benefits of pull planning with best-in-class digital collaboration tools – to build better together.
Collaboration Tools
- Team members can collaboratively edit, view, and develop daily, weekly, and look-ahead plans
Unlimited Users
- Easy enough for everyone on site to use
- No per user fee
Mobile Access Anywhere
- Users can access Touchplan from anywhere on any device
- Team members can modify, change, and view project details remotely from the field
Team Participation Tracking
- Display the participation history of team members
- Help managers understand performance and to drive improvement
4. EASIEST TO USE
Touchplan’s interface “looks like sticky notes,” and is the easiest planning tool to use.
Intuitive Look and Feel
- Familiar look and feel to planning on a whiteboard with sticky notes to reduce learning curve
No IT Required
- If you can use your email, you can use Touchplan
Cloud-based
- Enable team members to access projects from anywhere via the Internet
5. BEST CUSTOMER SERVICE
Before Using Touchplan
“We started with a rather detailed Excel program, but the challenge was that it became rather complex to use, and only the person who created it knew all of its inner workings.”
After Using Touchplan
“Using Touchplan allowed us to identify these issues months ahead of time and adjust our work to keep the project on schedule.”
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