Today, with shrinking margins, fierce competition and scarcity of labor, it's important to measure efficiency and bill for everything that needs to be billed.

When, in addition, your teams are mobile, moving from one address to another, from one worksite to another, or simply working away from your site, it becomes difficult to measure their effectiveness and efficiency, while at the same time gathering the data essential for invoicing and managing your inventories. Add to this the fact that hourly rates vary according to the time of day, the regulations in force or the type of employee, and the situation can become problematic and the justification to your customers of the hours invoiced relatively uncertain, not to mention the time spent by your administrative staff to sort it all out!

If you have fewer than 5 mobile employees, these solutions will probably meet your needs. All you need to do is enter your data into your project management system, and you'll have a profitability figure for each project.

However, if your mobile team consists of 10 players or more, you should consider an integrated software package that will limit transcription and allow you to manage your teams in real time. There are many questions to be answered, such as:

How do you want to manage your mobile employees' time?

1. Everyone punches in on a task (a "job") and someone in the office handles irregularities;
2. Everyone punches in on a task (a "job") and a team leader on the site validates the hours punched in;
3. The team leader punches in his teammates' hours and his own.

How to bill time to your customers:

1. Real working time
2. A fixed price for labor (actual time is then the cost of this fixed price) EX. 800$ installation
3. Prices include time (real time has a direct impact on task profitability)
4. All these answers!

How are your teams transported to the job site?

1. You charge the customer a fixed fee and the actual time becomes the cost of this fixed fee.
2. You bill the customer for actual travel time
3. You count this time as part of your fixed overheads.

Many other questions will have to be answered during the course of the project:

• What information do mobile workers need to have access to on site?
• Should they take photos or notes?
• Do we need to share documents with them?
• Does the customer have to sign for the job?
• Do we have any points to validate before completing a job?

Are you interested? Contact us and we'll discuss your project!