Hi all,
I have been working in the scaffold industry in managing scaffold jobs in Australia for a few years. The challenges we face daily from an operations perspective is the managing ordering materials from site for additional materials of an designed job or new materials for a small job that doesn't need a design to generate material list, and also gather proper information on variations of new required scaffold (basic information such as length, width, height and bay configurations, sketches, client information (who requested the job) and how long it is likely needed to build and dismantle job). For the material list, most of the time the site guys would send a text message or a photo of written material list on a piece of paper. For us working at the back of office, we are using stock codes and a software to manage inventory, that means we have to translate their request to our software recognizable format (using a cvs file) which takes a long time and create human errors of data double handling especially when a lot of the jobs are urgent as required yesterday (Operating in Australia seems a total different world from what I know in the UK).
What's the best practice are you or your company operating?
I am so frustrated with the poor communication and headache with the double data handling that I have created a website based APP (to be developed for mobile app) to manage material handling, project management dashboard (for documentation, QR code list/sharing) and etc. What's your thoughts and what would you like to see more?
Thanks
I have been working in the scaffold industry in managing scaffold jobs in Australia for a few years. The challenges we face daily from an operations perspective is the managing ordering materials from site for additional materials of an designed job or new materials for a small job that doesn't need a design to generate material list, and also gather proper information on variations of new required scaffold (basic information such as length, width, height and bay configurations, sketches, client information (who requested the job) and how long it is likely needed to build and dismantle job). For the material list, most of the time the site guys would send a text message or a photo of written material list on a piece of paper. For us working at the back of office, we are using stock codes and a software to manage inventory, that means we have to translate their request to our software recognizable format (using a cvs file) which takes a long time and create human errors of data double handling especially when a lot of the jobs are urgent as required yesterday (Operating in Australia seems a total different world from what I know in the UK).
What's the best practice are you or your company operating?
I am so frustrated with the poor communication and headache with the double data handling that I have created a website based APP (to be developed for mobile app) to manage material handling, project management dashboard (for documentation, QR code list/sharing) and etc. What's your thoughts and what would you like to see more?
Thanks
