Schuhmacher

Business Challenge

• Schuhmacher has employees based out of three headquarters, as well as workers abroad. Coordination is key to Schuhmacher’s success as the company is constantly running multiple projects with a variety of different teams.
• To keep track of project activities and progress at every stage, remote time recording and flawless reporting are crucial
• Until recently, time recording was done manually and inefficiently on traditional time sheets and allocated to the respective client accounts at a later time.

Solution

• Today, workers receive all client tasks via their BlackBerry smartphones
• Once the worker accepts the task, from the BlackBerry smartphone, time recording starts automatically and activities are directly charged to the corresponding project
• Reporting, time recording and billing details are immediately available on the system once the worker has fed the information into his or her BlackBerry smartphone, using a web-based application for the transmission of project data and the time recording in real-time.

Results

• Sending through reports and time recordings every evening integrates smoothly with the natural work processes on a construction site.
• Now, Schumacher can provide gapless tracking of activities in real-time and receive data of a very high quality, and furthermore, knows exactly who is doing what, where and when
• Calculations have shown that the investment will amortise in just a few months, even if you only take into account the time savings made by not filling in the time sheets and transferring them into the system manually anymore