A TECHNOLOGY BLUEPRINT FOR GENERAL CONTRACTORS

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AGC'S Contractor to Contractor Webinar Series:

A TECHNOLOGY BLUEPRINT FOR

GENERAL CONTRACTORS

Dean Doige

Chief Information Officer

Clark Builders

www.computerguidance.com

Brian Zientek

Chief Financial Officer/Secretary-Treasurer

Rudolph/Libbe Companies

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Dean Doige

• Chief Information Officer for Clark Builders

• Dean is a highly experienced Business/IT Executive who has demonstrated the ability to lead diverse teams of professionals to new levels of success in highly competitive industries,

economic uncertainties, and in fast-paced, lean, environments.

• Dean possesses strong technical and business skills with an impressive track record of more than 16 years of hands-on experience including strategic planning, business unit

development, project management, and business process re-engineering.

• Prior to Clark Builders, Dean has held executive positions at Tyco Thermal Controls, Tyco Engineered Products & Services, Tracer Industries Canada and Alberta Justice

• Dean holds a Management Essentials Program and a Graduate Certificate of Project Management from the University of

Alberta School of Business as well as a Telecommunications Engineering Technology degree from Northern Alberta Institute of Technology

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Clark Builders

Clark Builders (a subsidiary of Turner Construction with $500M in revenues with 500+ employees) is a Canadian general contractor providing a variety of construction

services such as construction management, handling logistics, general contracting, and constructing conventional and pre-engineered buildings.

Clark Builders is recognized as one of Western Canada’s leading construction management firms. The industrial division at Clark Builders has an unsurpassed reputation of delivering efficient, cost-effective and value-analyzed projects. Clark Builders is well-known for their metal division as their foundation is built on metal building systems, beginning with Andy Clark’s very first project in 1974.

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Brian Zientek

• Brian Zientek is Chief Financial Officer and

Secretary-Treasurer of Rudolph/Libbe Inc

• Brian earned a Bachelor of Science degree in

Business Administration from Ohio State University.

• He started his career in public accounting and banking, and served as controller for Great Lakes Window before joining Rudolph/Libbe in 1995.

• Brian is a member of Crossroads Community Church and the Associated General Contractors of Ohio, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Ohio Society of CPAs, and the Construction Financial Management Association.

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Rudolph/Libbe Companies

Rudolph/Libbe Inc. and GEM, Inc. (with combined revenues of $560M and 600+ employees) is a

national construction contractor headquartered near Toledo, Ohio with offices near Cleveland, Columbus and Detroit. Rudolph/Libbe Companies has grown steadily due to our focus on customer satisfaction, and has become one of the top providers of

construction services in the nation. Relationships with repeat national clients have provided us with the opportunity to work throughout the United States.

Rudolph/Libbe Companies has completed multiple, simultaneous projects, each valued at more than $100 million dollars. The company also completes numerous small projects through our Special

Accounts Group, who annually achieves more than 500 projects valued at under $500,000 each.

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Collaboration with Specialty Contractors,

Owners and Project Stakeholders

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Business Needs

• Communication

• Information sharing

• Approvals

• Documentation

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Applications

• ERP

• Business Intelligence

• Enterprise Content Management

• Project Management

• CRM

• Social Media

• BIM

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Payroll & Compliancy

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Business Needs

• Union and Non-union

• U.S. and Canadian Payroll

• Prevailing Wage

• Certified Payroll

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Solutions

• ERP – Integrated Financial Applications and

Productivity Tools

• Integrated Payroll

• Forms Management

• Enterprise Content Management

• Field, Enterprise and Consolidated Reporting

• Remote Time Entry – Mobile

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Job Cost & Project Status Management

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Business Needs

• Timeliness and accuracy of information to project staff

• Payroll

• Purchase Orders

• Information from rental company

• Contracts/Subcontracts

• CORs

• Estimated Cost At Completion

ECAC) at fingertips

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Solutions

• WIP, Contracts, Job Status Reports

• Real-time Dashboards

• Advanced Drill-down

• Integrated Financials & Project Data

• Integrated Live-feed Webcams

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Subcontract Management and

Lien Waiver Processing

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Business Needs

• Integration of billing, progress claims, lien waiver collection,

statutory declarations, sub-tier waivers, compliance management

and payments

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Applications

• ERP

• Textura-CPM

• GCpay

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Document Imaging, Digital Storage,

Retrieval and Workflow Automation

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Business Needs

• Automate business processes

• Reduce data entry

• Reduce paper

• Eliminate expenses

• Enhance productivity

• Boost communication

Accounts Payable

Human Resources

Payroll & Timesheets

Expense Reports

Accounts Receivable Billing

Purchase Requests

Vendor Management

Pre-Qualification

Payment Application

Check Reconciliation

Project Files

Equipment

Insurance Policies/Certificates

Legal & Tax Documents

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Solutions

Batch Upload Data Capture (OCR, OMR, ICR) Imaging Workflow Archival

Forms

Real-time integration with ERP is a must

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Intelligent Decision-making

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Business Needs

• Revenue Reporting by Construction Phase

• Most Profitable Jobs, Least Profitable Jobs

• Cash Management

• Equipment Utilization

• Equipment Availability

• Labor Cost Reports

• Productivity/Field Reporting

• Hours Earned

• Earned, Actual and Budgeted Hours

Company-wide Communication

Pro-active Decision-making

Stakeholder Collaboration

Business Intelligence

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Solutions

• Report Writing

• Scheduled Distribution

• Drill-down Capability

• Dashboards

• Alerts

• Forecasting

• Budgeting

• Data Warehousing

• Analytics

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Human Capital Management

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Business Needs

• Recruitment/Applicant Tracking

• Resource Availability

• Resource Qualifications

• Training

• Certifications

• Union and Non-union

• Safety Administration

• Personnel Management

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Solutions

• Human Resources Solutions

• Payroll Integration

• Self Service Applications

• Pay Cards

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Mobility

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Business Needs

• Do you have large amount of remote

employees?

• Do you have small or large amount of remote

employees but they are performing

business-critical processes?

• Are there any business processes that once

automated via mobile technologies would

reduce expenses, improve productivity and

help the organization’s bottom-line?

• Are there any business processes that are an

expense and/or a burden to the business not

being conducted via mobile technologies?

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Business Needs

• Enhance Customer-facing / Collaboration Processes

• Improve Customer Service

• Establish and Communicate Performance Measures

• Drive for Continuous Operational Improvements

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Mobile Device Selection

• Laptop or Tablet or Phone?

• Wireless Coverage

• Ruggedized

• Ease of Use

• Cost

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Applications

• Time & Attendance

Application

• Field Reporting

• Project Management

• Equipment Management

• Service Management

• Job Estimating

• Building Inspections

• CAD Drawings

• BIM Changes

• Safety Inspection

• Time & Material Log

• Daily Reporting

• CORs

• Invoicing

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applications

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Cloud Computing and Disaster Recovery

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Business Case

• Cost-effective IT

• Minimized Administrative Overhead

• Ubiquitous Access

• Business Continuity

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Solutions

• Hosted Solutions

• Integrated Hosted Solutions

• High-Availability

• Disaster Recovery

• Managed Services

Data Center Rating

SSAE16 Compliance

Scalability

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Enterprise and Disaster Recovery

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Business Case

• Most secure data governance

• Most reliable platform

• Optimized TCO

• Ubiquitous Access

• Business Continuity

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Solutions

• On-premise / Enterprise-class

• IBM platform

• High-Availability

• Disaster Recovery

• Most proven, reliable, flexible and

scalable

• The world’s most critical business

processes run on IBM

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Partnering With The Solution Provider

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Importance

• The ERP you select is important but it is only the foundation of the

final solution. The solution provider is who you ultimately selected.

• The solution provider designs, builds, delivers and supports your

solution and has a major impact on your satisfaction and success

with the solution.

Innovation and Maintenance (balance of today and tomorrow)

Customer Services & Support

Customer Programs and Collaboration Opportunities

Experience, Employees, Teams and Leadership

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Q&A

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Computer Guidance

• eCMS Construction ERP Software

for General, Heavy Highway/Civil,

Specialty Contractors

• Customers include numerous

Engineering News Record Top 50,

400 and 600 contractors.

• eCMS ranked as the No. 1 Job

Costing/Accounting/Payroll Software

for commercial contractors with

annual revenues of $250 million and

**higher* in 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007**

Proud Supporter and Affinity Partner of the Associated General

Contractors of America

*Construction Financial Management Association’s (CFMA) Annual Information Technology Survey for the Construction Industry

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