What investments are you considering right now?
Hiring is on everybody’s mind. It’s harder and more expensive than ever to hire and keep good people. Fabricators are also devoting massive resources to countertop software overhauls.
With so much uncertainty in the market, it’s more valuable than ever to maximize the people and software you already have. In our experience, most fabricators have much more to work with than they think.
It’s time to get clear on capacity.
In his latest article for The Slippery Rock Gazette, Fabricator Business Coach Ed Young explores the need to understand your shop’s true capacity in order to manage it effectively. We totally agree with his recommendations. To maximize profits and scale, you first have to get clear on where you are now.
In Ed’s words, “It is critical to the health of your business that your pricing accurately reflects the impact of various kitchen configurations on the capacity of your shop.”
At the end of the day, it’s all about profitability. You have to charge more than enough to cover the resources that go into every project. One way to do this is to raise prices. The other is to reduce the resource requirements.
Ed brings our attention to scope or spec bloat. You also need to minimize admin bloat.
Don’t forget your non-production costs.
Your pricing has to cover the impact of various administrative tasks on the capacity of your shop.
Administration inefficiencies have just as much potential as increased job complexity to create bottlenecks and reduce capacity. But production is billable. Admin is not.
Before you try to increase capacity by hiring or changing software, max out your opportunity to reduce administrative costs. No matter what your expenses and processes look like, we can almost guarantee you that our countertop software integrations can improve it.
We help grow capacity and profits for countertop fabricators by eliminating double data entry, streamlining inventory management, automating customer communication, and preventing mistakes and unnecessary conversations.
How? It’s in our name. We build a bridge between your software systems so that data can flow between them. It’s so simple – but so powerful.
Make your software work with your workflows.
First, we help you understand what your business processes really take and where they can be improved by automation. Then we enable your software platforms to talk to each other, customize your configuration to fit your existing workflows, then eliminate non-value-added steps to optimize efficiency. Our solutions improve morale because employees waste less time, do better, more fulfilling work, and have fewer technology-related challenges.
If you need help implementing capacity (and profit) building changes in your business, let’s start with a free evaluation. We’re sure to uncover opportunities you can start addressing today.
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