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Published on: 2/26/2007
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That makes sense to Steve Padilla, president of Hunter Contracting Corp., a heavy highway and water utility contractor in Gilbert, Ariz.He is rolling out a companywide implementation of Hard Dollar Enterprise.
Hard Dollar will interface with Hunter's Dexter + Chantey financial management system and Primavera scheduling, but job-cost accounting and resource allocation will come "real time" from Hard Dollar, thanks to daily reports updated from the field, Padilla says."We will track labor and equipment utilization as a company and find what didn't work on a given day so we can we put those resources to better use.
"Accounting and job costs are two different worlds," Padilla says."Accounting is exact, but in our environment, we work off job costsâ,"more of an approximation and indication of whether we need to change our approach or continue what we are doing.The key is to integrate [job cost] information in one place, independent from the accounting process, and let the field have the data without having to wait for accounting to update.We want our people to know no later than the next day where they are on their project."
"Software like this is improving the quality of life," Padilla says.