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– Jesse McConnell, accounting manager, Dobson Brothers Construction
remotely look at the silo inventories, sales for the day by
customer, and tonnages on Milestone jobs.
Primavera Contractor 6.1 is able to function independently on the foreman's laptop. The foreman updates his
schedule and sends his updates to the office where it is
imported directly into the network version of Primavera
3e/c and becomes a part of the master schedule. Indiana
DOT now requires project schedules be submitted in
a compatible format to Primavera – and Milestone has
ramped up their scheduling efforts and knowledge of
Primavera to meet the required need.
Jesse McConnell is the accounting manager for Dobson
Brothers Construction, a $50-million plus heavy/
highway contractor based in Lincoln, Neb. She says Heavy
Bid works very well to submit electronic bids to transportation departments in three states – Nebraska, Kansas
and Oklahoma. "That's the only way that I have ever
learned it," she says. "We take a bid from Heavy Bid and
import that into the electronic bidding file from the state.
If everything is in place, it takes probably less than 10
minutes to submit a bid."
Burger says that contractors need to design their overall
information systems to accommodate both the accuracy
required by their job cost accounting system and the full
detail needed there, and the immediacy of the need by
the field for close-to-accurate production data.
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12 February 2013 Better Roads
