Motor City Electric Schedules 800 Electricians with a Few Clicks — Expanding Planning from 3 Months to 3 Years

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foreign

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's a labor operations software platform

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for construction contractors we found a

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rivet in 2020 to streamline scheduling

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and dispatch for specifically the

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electrical trade since our founding

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we've expanded that to not only include

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scheduling and dispatch but also

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long-term labor planning and workforce

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management Motor City Electric was one

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of our first customers and partners here

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at Revit and they're one of the largest

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electrical contractors in the midwest

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with more than a thousand employees and

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hundreds of job sites both here in

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Michigan and Across the Nation it takes

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commitment to Innovation to have success

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at that scale and so Motor City was

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always looking for the latest

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Technologies to help them grow and

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maintain their business prior to rivet

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we were primarily spreadsheets and white

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boards with the whiteboards we could

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only schedule roughly two to three

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months out using rivet now we're able to

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schedule two to three years out right

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now we're running anywhere from six to

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eight hundred on average in the field

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using rivet gives us the ability to move

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Manpower in large quantities if we need

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to move 50 to a job it's it's a couple

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clicks whereas in in the old days we

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would have to pick up the phone we'd be

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calling people rivet gives us the

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ability to automatically notify the

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project managers the foreman the

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superintendents as well as the field

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Personnel so before rivet Motor City

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used a combination of different

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processes methods to plan labor across

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all of their divisions and we first met

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with them they told us that they were

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looking for a way to forecast labor on a

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job where they didn't know yet the

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specific person or crew that was going

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to be on that job you know they

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envisioned this on a digital whiteboard

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that would also automate the

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communication and dispatching of workers

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as they're being transferred between

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jobs now fast forward a couple years

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we've built all of that and Motor City

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continues to be a key partner and source

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of feedback for our team here at rivet I

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used rivet every day I use it for

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scheduling I use it for transferring

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guys from job to job I love the fact

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that I'm able to pull up an individual's

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profile to see what they're certified in

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or where they are orientated so that if

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a specific job requires additional

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Manpower I'm able to see easily who has

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that training or orientation in order to

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get there word of mouth is definitely

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our strongest channel to Market and

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that's why we have such a emphasis at

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our company on customer feedback and

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this shows in the product when a

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customer sees rivet for the first time

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it feels familiar it can immediately

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Envision how it's going to help their

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labor operations at their company and

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you know this is because we built rivet

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on the tools and processes the industry

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has converged on over the last 50 years

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it Maps directly to their existing

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processes and workflows we didn't invent

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any of this stuff we just make again

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what companies have been doing for a

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long time simple connected and fun so

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schedulers and superintendents use

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rivets roster board for daily field

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management dispatch these are schedules

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for for weekly labor planning and look

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aheads and these are mapped to see

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qualified available workers and

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proximity to job sites project managers

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use rivet's forecasting feature to build

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labor loading schedules for jobs safety

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teams manage training skills

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certifications and always ensure the

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operations team has up-to-date and

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accurate information Foreman can check

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their roster each morning Mark absences

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and send labor requests to the back

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office executive teams can see all of

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this in real time including productive

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labor spend across their entire

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organization absolutely 100 recommend

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rivet to other contractors I have been

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fortunate enough to be able to be part

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of the beginning stages of it all I've

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been able to input and I've been very

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successful working with rivet as a team

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and growing this app I believe that

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rivet has the ability to stay in the

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future needs with contractors and grow

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as needs change

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thank you

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