Use Mobile Apps to Manage Project Cost—And Protect Your Margins

Use Mobile Apps to Manage Project Cost—And Protect Your Margins

One mistake in an estimate can be the difference between profit and loss for a construction job. Find out how to use mobile apps to manage the cost of labor, materials, and equipment — and protect your bottom line.

What will you find in this eBook?

  • Information on how mobile apps can help you track and control all project costs and estimate accurately
  • Details on how accurate tracking of employee time, equipment use, and materials purchases can help keep your company in the black
  • Examples of how to use mobile to estimate what purchased equipment is costing you per hour

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RF Celada Saves $25K Annually with Mobile Work Orders

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How RF Celada Saved $25K Annually through Mobile Work Orders and Invoicing

The Background

For nearly 80 years, RF Celada has been the leading sales and service provider for industrial machinery throughout Italy and has expanded its services to France, Croatia, Slovenia, Emirates, and Switzerland. Since their inception, RF Celada has committed themselves to the highest quality experience possible for each of their customers.

The Problem

RF Celada has over 80 mechanics that travel to customers to service machinery when something needs to be repaired or audited. Prior to GoCanvas, lost forms, illegible handwriting, and missing information was costing RF Celada time and money.

The Solution

That’s why Alberto Bernasconi, ‎ICT Group Manager at RF Celada, decided to ditch the paperwork and automate their data collection with GoCanvas.

The types of forms converted to mobile versions included:

RF Celada has automated their data handling process even further by integrating their web service platform and Google Sheets to the GoCanvas platform. Now, once a submission is made, information auto-populates their web service platform, their central database for customer information. This information also gets passed to Google Sheets for real-time reporting.

The Outcomes

After going paperless, RF Celada has captured 30,000+ digital records year after year with their custom GoCanvas mobile forms!

“What used to take us 10 minutes takes 1 minute and has more information, more statistics, and is more accurate.”Alberto Bernasconi 

Overall, RF Celada has seen a major increase in the accuracy of their reporting and improved visibility into daily operations. Even with 60+ hours recovered every month, RF Celada is still searching for new ways they can implement GoCanvas to save more time and money!

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NRG Saves Increases Efficiency by 60% with GoCanvas

How NRG Saved Over $20,000 by Switching to GoCanvas

The Background

NRG has grown from an energy generator to a global leader in the energy provider space. As NRG grew they needed a system that was capable of continually improving with their business. NRG had been using a company called GoFormz to help automate their data collection processes, but the GoFormz platform was difficult and hurting productivity.

The Problem

NRG’s field techs began resorting back to a pen and paper so they wouldn’t have to use the GoFormz platform. It wasn’t only difficult for the field techs though, office personnel reported that managing the platform took hours and a simple update could take weeks to implement. Jeff Sampeer from NRG realized that his teams needed a better way to collect and share data. 

The Solution

Jeff spoke with a representative at GoCanvas and decided that it was the perfect platform for automating their business processes.

Some of the first processes that NRG converted into mobile apps were their Lock Out Tag Outs (LOTO) form, Safety Audit, and inspections. Jeff was shocked to learn in just his first few app conversions how simple it was to create and customize. With these mobile forms, Jeff was able to deploy GoCanvas to his field technicians within days and begin seeing the impact. Reports were now able to be shared, reviewed, and retrieved in real-time.

Since then, they have created and deployed a variety of different mobile forms including:

  • Vehicle Safety Inspection
  • Pre-Job Evaluation
  • Confined Space Permit
  • Audits

Jeff has continued to work closely with our team at GoCanvas to optimize the way NRG staff use GoCanvas by implementing required fields and reference data to eliminate manual data duplication.

“ What would have taken us a week and a half with GoFormz, takes all but a few hours with GoCanvas.” – Jeff Sampeer

Additionally, Jeff and his team have taken the steps to begin standardizing submission processes across their business. With each tech submitting their information over the GoCanvas platform data is consistent and important information isn’t lost.

The Outcomes

Since deploying GoCanvas, NRG has successfully developed and deployed multiple mobile form processes across the business. With GoCanvas, NRG is able to easily customize and dispatch any form within minutes. Features such as the ability to work offline allow for field techs in remote areas to make submissions.

Today NRG has further solidified their place as an industry leader by increasing their efficiency and improving the way they share information. In just a few months since deploying GoCanvas, NRG has saved countless dollars in productivity and have increased their efficiency by over 60%!

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Garden Grove Landscaping Improves Operational Efficiency by 50%

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How Garden Grove Landscaping Improved Operational Efficiency by 50% with Mobile Forms

Overview 

  • Industry: Landscaping Management & Construction
  • HQ Location: Waterdown, Ontario

Quick Facts

  • Recover $12,000 in paper costs annually
  • Return on investment of $75,800 in first 18 months
  • Mobile forms: Time Tracker, Work Order, Fuel Log & more!

The Problem

David Lammers, President of Garden Grove Landscaping, approached GoCanvas looking for a solution to their “data overflow” needs. Garden Grove was really beginning to scale as a business, acquiring new clients and more paperwork, but this explosive growth was also hurting them as well. They quickly realized that the massive amount of data they were collecting from their numerous job sites was now taking even longer to receive, organize, and analyze. In simple terms, their manual paper process was actually slowing down the business and causing them to become less efficient as they acquired more clients.

David knew that Garden Grove needed a better way to collect, share and learn from their data and that a platform like GoCanvas could provide the tools for his employees to have the real-time access to information that they so critically needed.

The Solution

The Senior Mobile App Consultants worked with David and the team at Garden Grove Landscaping to ensure they understood which processes were the most inefficient, and what key areas of the business were being most affected.

David and his team decided to take a more holistic approach. They took anything they did on paper and turned it into a mobile process within the GoCanvas platform. The goal was to have a single place where their employees could go to collect data, review reports, or share information in real time. This has ultimately led to the creation of over 10 different types of mobile forms across 5 different operational departments. It has also led to the implementation of the GoCanvas Dispatch and Workflow tools, which allows for the Garden Grove office staff to conveniently create, track, and assign tasks to their mobile field workers.

Check out the list below for examples of the types of mobile forms that Garden Grove has created and implemented for their team thus far:

  • Heavy Equipment Inspections
  • Fuel Logs
  • Vehicle Circle Checks
  • Incident Reports
  • Expense Reports
  • Quality Control Reports
  • Site Evaluation

The Outcomes

After just a year of creating, testing, and deploying the GoCanvas platform to their team, Garden Grove Landscaping has already seen amazing results.  “(Today) we’re able to complete worksheets in 30 minutes. Before it took us 3 hours. It’s saving us about $1,000 a month in time and paper costs”, said David Lammers, President of Garden Grove Landscaping.

David and his team have truly embraced the GoCanvas platform and the ability to build out their own processes without the need for IT support or coding knowledge. This has enabled them to build out a mobile form for every one of their processes and to grow their business without the fear of losing efficiency. In fact, David and his team are currently looking at even more ways they can integrate GoCanvas into their back-office operations including a direct integration with QuickBooks.

But the biggest benefit of implementing GoCanvas has been the confidence that it gives the Garden Grove employees. They no longer have to worry about losing a paper form or filling in the wrong information. All the data needed to complete their job is now in the palm of their hand, and that is what David truly loves about using GoCanvas.

“I start this business on my bicycle. I did invoices by hand. It is great to see the success of our company and the tools like GoCanvas can empower our employees.”

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East Berkshire Primary Care Reduces Paperwork & Increases Compliance

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How Healthcare Provider, EBPC, Reduced Paperwork & Increased Compliance with Mobile Forms

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Overview 

  • Industry: Healthcare
  • HQ Location: Berkshire, England
  • Website: Visit Here

Quick Facts

  • Recover $6,630 in paper costs annually
  • Return on investment of $25,000 in the first 3 months

The Background

East Berkshire Primary Care, a non-profit healthcare agency that services up to 85,000 patients a year in the United Kingdom, was drowning in the amount of paperwork that was being collected by their personnel on a daily basis.

The Problem

It came to a point where data could not be thoroughly reviewed in a timely manner, records were getting misplaced, and weekly reports were increasingly delayed. There was no way for Patrick Rogan, Chief Executive at EMPC, to get an accurate analysis of all the data being collected or to have a proper grasp of how the agency was performing as a whole. And since EBPC falls under the umbrella of the Quality Care Commission and its quality of service standards(similar to OSHA), it was of the utmost priority to Patrick that their data collection and reporting process improve.

The Solution

At the beginning of 2017, Patrick reached out to GoCanvas to see what could be done to improve EMPC’s operational data collection and reporting.

The first step for GoCanvas was to fully understand the different processes and operations that encompassed EMPC facilities. After understanding the processes, the second step was to identify the holes and speed bumps that were inhibiting the efficient sharing of data between the field and the office. After working through and evaluating EMPC’s processes, GoCanvas identified that the simple sheer volume of data being collected by the various groups within the agency, along with the manual/time-consuming nature of filing paper forms, was to blame for many of their issues.

Consider that a typical paper form takes between 5 to 15 minutes to fill out, now add in the 15 to 30 minutes of travel time to return the forms, and finally the 1 to 2 hours it takes to manually re-enter every form back into their digital database. EMPC was easily losing 100+ hours in productivity each month due to manual data collection processes, and the mission of GoCanvas was to recover this time with easy-to-use mobile forms.

The Outcomes

The process of going mobile came rapidly and across the board for EMPC. Patrick first deployed GoCanvas in a few operational areas of their facilities to test out the platform and make changes as they identified places of need. The first two mobile forms they deployed included a Crash Bag Checklist and Vehicle Checklist. After a few weeks of testing and seeing a major improvement in data visibility, Patrick and his team began building out additional operational mobile forms to further streamline their front-end data collection.

Since deploying GoCanvas in February, Patrick and his team have built an additional 10 mobile forms and counting. Every mobile form they build is used to increase their operation efficiency and keep them compliant under Quality Compliance Commission standards. Additional mobile forms they have created include CQC Vehicle Supervisor Checklist, Controlled Drugs Checklist, Nurse Cleaning Schedule, and Infection Prevention & Control Audit.

“We needed a way better to manage all the paper checklists that were coming back because we couldn’t prove that employees we checking stuff — now they have to take pictures and confirm.”

– Patrick Rogan, Chief Executive at EMPC

With all of EMPC’s mobile forms, Patrick has enabled specific features to make data collection. For example, Reference Data ensures that each mobile form is pre-filled with lists of locations, stock numbers, nurses, and drivers. No more manually looking up names or having to call someone for information. Patrick has also set up Folders that allow him to easily organize mobile forms by department, facility, and use case so that employees don’t get confused when looking for the right report to complete.

So far, after having deployed GoCanvas for just over 4+ months, EMPC has already seen a $25,000 return on investment and is on track to recover over 500 hours in productivity.

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What’s the Cost of Paper at Your Business?

What’s the Cost of Paper to Your Business

More and more businesses are switching from paper forms and documents to digital for their company needs. Why are they opting for digital? The answer is clear – the environment and cost savings. 

It is true that overall the paper industry has become more environmentally responsible in the paper production process. Today, 39 percent of papermaking comes from recycled paper, which is a noteworthy improvement from the past. But, that does not entirely take away from the fact that papermaking still accounts for a considerable amount of deforestation in the nation. Each year, $18 million acres of trees are cut down and more than one-third of the timber harvested in the U.S. is harvested for paper. The amount of timber harvested each year in the United States continues to exceed the forest growth. The negative impact on the environment could be reduced in many cases by choosing digital alternatives. 

In addition to digitizing for environmental reasons, businesses have begun to move away from using paper for another reason: cost savings. Businesses care about the bottom line, and therefore more businesses have opted for digital versions of the everyday documents they were once using. Paper itself may not be very expensive, but the costs add up as you factor in storage, copying, printing and postage. When people are finished using paper, you must also spend money to dispose or recycle it. Studies estimate that associated paper costs such as these total to roughly 30 times the actual purchasing cost.

The Bank of America reduced its paper consumption by one-fourth by merging to digital for forms and reporting, by copying and printing on double-sided paper and by using lighter-weight paper. By digitizing, businesses are also able to free up space that would otherwise be used for filing cabinets and storage and save time that employees would typically be spending on searching for documents. 

There will continue to be situations where paper is the best option, but for those looking to reduce spending, the switch to digital could pave the way to a greener future, save businesses money, as well as free up space and time in the office which translates into saving money as well. 

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The Cost of Paper

Many companies have switched to digital, opting for e-billing, apps, mobile forms, and similar solutions to run their businesses. Why are they making the switch?

The top two reasons are to: reduce Costs and be more environmentally friendly.

PAPER COSTS IN AN OFFICE

Paper costs involve more than the purchase cost of the paper. Recycling, storage, and other associated costs are around 30X the paper purchase costs.

  • $20 – Average spent on filing each month.
  • $1.500 – Average filing cabinet costs each year.
  • 9 sq. ft. – Area of space a filing cabinet takes up.

In addition to monetary savings, reducing paper consumption at an office can:

  • Improve productivity
  • Increase efficiency

According to research, 35 percent of an employee’s time at
work is time spent locating information and documents. By having documents in a central place and digitizing, time can be cut down.

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

  • 18 Million forecasted acres lost each year
  • 60 percent of timber is harvested for paper and pulp each year.

INDUSTRIES GOING PAPERLESS

According to Canvas, a tech-based company that provides mobile apps and forms for data collection and sharing, the top industries going paperless are:

  • Construction
  • Repair and Improvement
  • Transportation and Warehousing
  • Retail, Sales, and Wholesale Distribution
  • Repair and Maintenance
  • Professional Service

Top Departments that use GoCanvas: Operations 62%, Sales 25%, Safety 27%.

Most used types of Apps & Forms: Work Orders 35%, Inspections 54%, Checklist 43%.

THE FUTURE OF PAPER

“Personal printing, such as printing out boarding tickets
or directions, is on a downward trend, but commercial
printing is maintaining its pace.”

The switch may be taking longer to catch on than anticipated but companies are very much interested in digitizing and the popularity of digitizing is predicted to continue to increase.

“While some businesses have moved away from the use of paper, sectors like education, government, and health care remain extremely paper-intensive.”

Many organizations have experienced firsthand the benefits of digitizing and have accepted a new mindset of using digital means day-to-day for what they were previously using paper for. There continues to be a strong interest in organizations to replace paper records.

How Paper is Costing Your Business Real Money

Determining the True Cost of Paper

In order to truly understand the value of going mobile with your data collection, it’s important to know how your current process is affecting your business. Many companies today do not fully understand the hidden costs that come with using paper, and how it can strike a major blow to productivity. Take a look below to find out why you should consider going paperless with your business’ data collection processes!

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The way companies are approaching data collection is rapidly changing. Whether it be because of the emergence of the Internet of Things or the mass availability of smart devices, mobile forms are steadily replacing paper as the status quo for business data collection.

If you are still debating whether to make the switch, learn why paper could be costing your business a lot more than you think.

7.5% – Estimated amount of paper documents that are completely lost. 750 documents lost in a company lifetime and 122$ cost per lost document. Lost, damaged, or delayed forms cost companies thousands every year.

20% – estimated amount of an employee’s time that is spent searching for paper documents.

$160K – average amount lost in productivity annually due to paper-based filing systems.

GoCanvas is a mobile platform that makes it simple for businesses to automate how work is done, replacing outdated processes and expensive paperwork. The Canvas App works on smartphones and tablets, helping companies to easily collect information, share it instantly with others, and gain real-time insight into their business operations.

Ready to go paperless with your company? Try GoCanvas today!

Excelsior Saves $200K with GoCanvas

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Merchandising Made Smarter: Excelsior Saves $200K with GoCanvas

The Problem

Being involved with merchandising in the Retail industry can get many companies swamped in paperwork, and Excelsior Merchanding was no exception.  Their contractors were becoming so entrenched in paperwork that it was affecting their speed and effectiveness at each client location. The move to mobile forms was ultimately caused by 100’s of hours being wasted on daily report creation and completion, the lack of real-time reporting from client locations, and data errors caused by manual input.

The Solution

The CEO of Excelsior Merchandising, Lauretta Cunningham, approached GoCanvas looking for a way to not only streamline the way that data was being captured but also increase the speed of data collection and reporting in the back office.

With the help of GoCanvas Senior Consultants, Lauretta developed a store visit and invoice report within the mobile platform. Each mobile form was client specific and customized based on their unique needs. It allowed the contractors to easily select the report for the correct corresponding store, fill out the merchandising items that fit that specific retailer, and quickly submit the information back to the office for processing.

“By 5PM everything has to be done. We can now ensure that with GoCanvas. Before it wasn’t possible because we had to compile reports manually.” – CEO of Excelsior Merchandising, Lauretta Cunningham

Their new process not only dramatically cut down on the amount of time that it took to service each existing retailer, but allowed Excelsior Merchandising to service 300% new retail accounts than was possible before. GoCanvas has helped Excelsior ensure that all reports are now turned in by 5PM at the end of each day so that proper billing and invoicing can take place for clients and employees alike.

Today, client satisfaction has dramatically increased since reports no longer take days or weeks to arrive, but instead get sent within minutes of a contractor leaving their store location.

The Outcomes

Since rolling out GoCanvas almost 2 years ago, Lauretta and her team at Excelsior have seen major impacts across three areas of their business: 1) Job Performance, 2) Data Reporting, 3) Company Efficiency.

Lauretta is now able to pull daily, weekly, and monthly reports for her employees and see who worked where, when, and for how long. This has increased billing accuracy and cut down on unnecessary expenses. She also now has unrivaled access to her store reports with the GoCanvas cloud. She can pull PDF reports in real-time to view photos of each store that was serviced to ensure quality control and customer retention.

Overall, Excelsior Merchandising has been able to recover over 3,125 hours in productivity since eliminating paper and deploying GoCanvas.

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5 Steps To Go Construction Paperless

If you’re thinking about joining the thousands of companies in the construction industry who have already ditched paper for
mobile forms then you need to read this. Learn how simple it is
to transition your paper-based processes to Canvas.

STEP 1: THE SUCCESS PLAN

When investing in any type of technology, it is important to create a plan. This plan should include deadlines, ROI targets, and specific details of what results you expect.

It is important to discuss the current holes in your process, where you are losing time and/or money, and what pieces of data are most important for your business. This helps lay the foundation for the implementation of your custom solution.

STEP 2: FORM CONSOLIDATION

When you start with GoCanvas, the first thing you will be asked to do is send us all the paper forms that your company currently uses on a daily basis. Work Orders, JSA’s, Safety Reports, and everything else you have. GoCanvas will assist to build these forms into mobile versions and train you on how easy it is to create these into mobile forms using the no-code GoCanvas App Builder.

STEP 3: INTERNAL TESTING

Once your forms have been converted into mobile versions, it is now time to start testing with a small “pilot group”. This group should be comprised of a few high-value personnel who normally use these forms on an active basis. They will be essential for providing feedback that is used to modify the mobile forms until perfection!

STEP 4: DATABASE INTEGRATION

Once you have concluded testing and tweaking your initial mobile forms, now is the time to evaluate where you want all your data to be collected, shared, and analyzed. By default, all your data is stored securely in the GoCanvas cloud where it can be easily reviewed, downloaded, and exported. But you may also decide to connect this database with other systems including PlanGrid, Quickbooks, Sage, Timberline, Google Drive, Salesforce, and more.

STEP 5: FULL DEPLOYMENT

Now that you have your forms created, tested, and database connected; it’s time to roll things out to the entire team! The best part is that as you add new employees to GoCanvas, you can assign them privilege levels based on their roles within the company. You can even organize your users and/or assign forms by location or project using the “Department” functionality.

Llewellyn Smith Increases Productivity by 50% with GoCanvas

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How Llewellyn Smith Uses GoCanvas to Increase Productivity by 50%

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The Background

Llewellyn Smith, founded in 2002 and based in England, has provided on-site technical monitoring of energy efficiency measures in households throughout the UK for almost 15 years. With their dedication to sustainability and productivity, they began looking for a way to solve issues they were running into caused by paper.

The Problem

Prior to finding GoCanvas, all of their day-to-day data collection was being done on paper. Everything from home inspections, site surveys, technical monitoring reports, and even health & safety inspections were all done with pen and paper. This was causing issues not only with the field technicians who were wasting countless hours manually filling out these paper-based forms but also frustrating the office personnel who would have to wait hours(if not days) to receive the final paperwork and re-enter the data into their databases. Llewellyn Smith needed a complete solution that would make the lives of both their office and field crews streamlined and more productive on a daily basis.

The Solution

Prior to finding GoCanvas, all of their day-to-day data collection was being done on paper. Everything from home inspections, site surveys, technical monitoring reports, and even health & safety inspections were all done with pen and paper. This was causing issues not only with the field technicians who were wasting countless hours manually filling out these paper-based forms but also frustrating the office personnel who would have to wait hours(if not days) to receive the final paperwork and re-enter the data into their databases. Llewellyn Smith needed a complete solution that would make the lives of both their office and field crews streamlined and more productive on a daily basis.

The Outcomes

Even though Llewellyn Smith was located in the United Kingdom, GoCanvas worked with Dafydd and his team’s schedule to develop an implementation plan to guarantee success no matter the time zone. The goal was to deploy the GoCanvas platform across both the IT and Safety departments in order to upgrade the outdated paper processes within these key areas of operation. Challenges included the slow collection times of invoices, the inability to quickly track/search customer documents, and the inability to generate reports in real-time. In order to address these challenges, GoCanvas went about creating a platform of mobile forms that encompassed Llewellyn Smith’s current data collection processes of surveys, inspections, checklists, and audits into one single database.

Llewellyn Smith has seen a complete transformation in the way they collected, share, and analyze data. Not only does the office receive and analyze reports as soon as the field techs complete them, but they now have a searchable cloud database for all their documents. This new streamlined way of collecting, sharing, and storing data is saving them close to 3+ hours per day. They are now able to reinvest that time into scheduling more appointments that make them more money.

Since implementing GoCanvas 3 years ago, Llewellyn Smith has seen massive benefits across their entire organization:

  • Real-time Data – Today, Llewellyn Smith captures almost 400+ paperless reports weekly with GoCanvas. Every report is automatically filed in their online cloud database, and a PDF copy is sent to each field technician’s assigned supervisor for review. This has reduced the total number of hours spent on travel, manual data re-entry, and reporting by over 1,000+ hours yearly.
  • Increasing Productivity – With over 60+ mobile forms created in their lifetime with GoCanvas, Llewellyn Smith has definitely recognized the benefits of going paperless. Since going paperless over 3 years ago, Llewellyn Smith has seen a 50%+ increase in productivity and a net savings of over $400,000.
  • 1,105 Hours in productivity saved annually.
  • $7,098 saved in paper costs per year.
  • $139,828 yearly return on investment.

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