Road surfacing company covers more ground
 by Daphne Ho
The lack of coherent job costing process had necessitated several experts in laying asphalt and other specialised road surfacing and line markings at Roadways to seek deliverance from a new Business Management Suite.
Phil Sidney, Managing Director at Roadways says that they really needed an integrated system with a substantial Job Costing capability that would effectively replace the numerous Excel spreadsheets the business had been running on for many years.
Salvation came in the form of Greentree's fully integrated modular solution. The seal of approval was given to Financials, Job Cost, Payroll, Inventory and Transaction Analysis which were all quickly deployed.
These modules provide not a by-pass, but a seamlessly integrated solution, supplying Roadways with all the right answers to questions. Roadways are now able to exploit key business data and focus their expertise on the core business of road surfacing.
 The tracking of hours of usage and scheduling of maintenance of each machine is crucial since machine failure can cost thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars in down-time and Phil says Greentree's reporting has been of outmost importance, "Greentree's reporting capability now fully informs management and this translates into better decision making when it comes to quoting and estimating future jobs - previously, we weren't getting the full picture about costs or machine hours."
The seamless integration between Greentree's modules means that rekeying quote data is a task of the past since there is only one single entry of data required. Whilst Phil concedes Roadways aren't using Greentree to anywhere near its potential he says they are "improving and realising its immense capability every day."
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