WFM WORKFLOW WEBINAR SERIES
Near-Term Labor Planning & Labor Crew Makeup
Hosted by: Louis Gelinas
RIVET Co-founder & Director of Product
Special Guest: Dustin Acker
RIVET Implementation Manager
Thanks for being here! Welcome to our first RIVET Product Team Webinar Series. Welcome to the contractors currently using the RIVET Platform, and also welcome to everyone else here to learn about Near-Term Labor Planning & Labor Crew Makeup.
So why are we talking about Near-term Labor Planning? In our last webinar, we talked about Pursuit Forecasting & Backlog Management at the company / org-wide level. An org-level forecast is comprised of project-level labor plans. And why do we recommend creating project-level labor plans? Because we hear consistently that contractors experience profit fade at the end of jobs that could be overcome better near-term labor planning on their projects.
Here we cover using the RIVET Platform for labor planning — ramping up and ramping down at the job level — monitoring labor utilization against the plan in real time, and having an exit strategy visualized on the labor curve.
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This training is for anyone who cares about Labor Forecasting in construction. We’ll get deeper into that in a little bit. But if labor is a big part of your business, then forecasting is probably essential for your business and your jobs. This is for you.
Our mission at RIVET is to enable every self-performing contractor to have a labor plan that they can execute against that improves their bottom line.
We define Near-Term Labor Planning as: Ramping up and ramping down field employee assignments for specific durations to a project.
Without software:
- Ad hoc communication between project managers and labor coordinators on their upcoming need
- No visualizations or “standard” for your labor plans
- Your schedule / company roster is siloed away from your project plans
With the RIVET Platform:
- Single source of truth for labor demand across all your jobs
- Predictability and accountability for creating and maintain labor plans
- “Schedule to Your Forecast” automatically or through tried & true scheduling and dispatch workflows
Activities:
- Ramping up: Applying real bodies for specific durations to a project. With RIVET, Labor Plans with automated curves are populated in seconds, then planners can tweak start dates while viewing recommended assignment durations.
- Adjusting durations: Start and end dates are easy to tweak in the platform when changes to the job occur.
- Ramping down: Labor Plans provide a clear visual for when labor needs to be transferred off the job to avoid overspend while still committing to your planned dates.
Labor Plan revisions are important and really common among RIVET users:
- Jobs Plans are never set it and forget it! Near term labor planning adjustments are constant.
- The average job is revised 3 or 4 times throughout it’s life in Rivet.
- The largest and most difficult jobs are revised 7 or 8 times throughout it’s life.
1. Get project managers involved in the labor planning and management process.
2. Have a playbook going in to the game, and be ready to call audibles. The playbook is your labor plan.
3. Don’t just schedule people to the end of the job. Make the time investment to have true ends dates with an exit strategy.
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Construction labor challenges can be greatly reduced with the right software