9 Ways Residential Construction Software Empowers Small, Medium & Large Business Owners
The residential construction business depends on the complicated and precise coordination of multiple Trades, Suppliers, Vendors, materials, tasks and schedules. As a Builder and business owner, home construction software is an incredibly useful tool that facilitates this coordination and supports your team and vendors to improve productivity and do their best work. Most large home builders are already taking advantage of integrated residential construction technology to optimize their management processes. However, this software is equally useful for small to mid-sized construction companies. In an industry with notoriously tight profit margins, an investment in Home Builder management software can produce cost and time savings that make the difference between hanging on and thriving.
No matter how many homes you build each year, whether it’s below 50 or over 2,000, well-designed software targeted to this industry can enable you to communicate more effectively with your team, streamline your critical processes and minimize costs. Hyphen’s software solutions for Builders and Suppliers help you execute projects in less time with less effort while saving you both time and money. When software solutions fit seamlessly into your processes and simplify your tasks, you can focus on producing the best result for your clients: a beautiful home delivered on time and on budget.
Hyphen Solutions' software empowers you and your team in many ways.
1. Improve Collaboration with Better Communication
Residential construction management software provides streamlined real-time communication to help you handle multiple clients, projects and subcontractors at one time. Additionally, your systems automatically respond to changes after-hours, making you a more responsive and customer-centric trade partner.
2. Optimize Document Management and Transparency
You can easily share documents, reducing the number of portals you have to use. Since Builders, Contractors, Trades and Suppliers access information on a single platform, all team members stay well-informed throughout a project. You save time looking for data in multiple places. Plus, when changes occur or errors are discovered, you can let all shareholders know immediately, so responses and corrections can be made as quickly as possible and project delays can be avoided.
3. Improve Information Accuracy
When information doesn’t have to be manually transferred, human error is reduced and data is more reliable. By improving the accuracy of the information you exchange with employees, vendors and clients, you can drastically reduce the time you spend reconciling orders and clarifying changes.
4. Make Deliveries More Efficient and Reliable
Home construction management software dramatically improves the timing and accuracy of delivered materials. Costly dry runs remain at a minimum, making it easier to keep to your project timeline.
5. Increase Productivity
By automating, streamlining and eliminating repetitive processes, including manual data entry, home construction software boosts productivity in your back-office.
6. Allocate Resources More Effectively
When you and your staff can spend less time on day-to-day repetitive tasks, you have more time and resources for problem-solving and strategic initiatives that can enhance your customer service and profitability.
7. Reduce Costs
By improving collaboration, information exchange and your allocation of staff resources, you improve the cost efficiency of your operations and prevent costly disruptions and delays.
8. Forecast with Accuracy
The best way to allocate some of the time you save through residential construction management software is to plan for future growth and profitability. Your software should provide data and analytics to help you better understand the efficiencies and challenges in individual projects and improve your decision-making and financial forecasts.
9. Scale up When You Need to
No matter what scale of management system you initially implement, Hyphen Solutions’ systems grow with your business and are designed to allow the addition of new users and functions. Your success shouldn’t be limited by your software.
Empower Teams of All Sizes With Hyphen Solutions
Hyphen Solutions is a forward-thinking company that partners with its customers to produce innovative solutions. We focus on software solutions that facilitate faster and more efficient operations in the residential home building industry and help our customers thrive.
We have developed a two-sided network that connects Home Builders and Suppliers on a single platform and offers the targeted features each side needs to optimize and build business. Our flagship solutions include: BuildPro, an integrated construction management software system used by 21 of the top 26 Home Builders in North America; SupplyPro, an integrated residential construction management software system designed specifically for Suppliers, Contractors and Trades and an array of other construction management tools to meet the needs of Builders, Contractors, Trades and Suppliers of all sizes.
