Contractor Industries

Mechanical Contractors

Mechanical contractors are in a highly specialized area of the industry that often requires employees to have some cross training in other specialties. Is the equipment being installed too heavy for the surface where it's being placed? Do the connections require special power considerations or wiring that needs an electrician? Do you need to excavate materials to bury piping or plumbing? How does this need affect the integrity of the surrounding soil or structure? A mechanical contracting company needs a versatile purchasing system, inventory control, employee management and service management capability. ComputerEase helps integrate all these needs in one location.

Has a more efficient product been introduced or a product been recalled/replaced since your bid? Change or flag the bid to reflect this update.

Does the system require a stable or protected power supply? Flag this item with a note of this need and schedule the appropriate employees directly to the job.

Does a product you have previously installed require special maintenance authorized from the manufacturer? Quickly review past jobs to find the jobs where this equipment was installed and schedule a service call according to availability of employees.

Does the job require purchasing products from multiple vendors? ComputerEase can issue multiple purchase orders based on best pricing options or allow you to purchase from only one vendor.

Have inventory of some of the products necessary for the job? ComputerEase can pull directly from inventory those products and the remaining from vendors you select.

These are just a few of the ways ComputerEase Construction Management Software helps meet the specialized needs of mechanical contractors.

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"Access to everything in one central location"

John Jay Sweeney
Comptroller
Grote Enterprises

I've never worked ever with another software package which has afforded me access to everything in one central place like that where, where I can pull up and there it is, and it just gives me all the features that I need to be able, to measure kind of where we're at.

Tom Moore
President
MIS Construction Software

Other types of contractors, like electrical and mechanical contractors, that use a lotta materials, there’s a whole material management section in ComputerEase that uh, most systems don’t have that allow them to control material down to individual material items on a list and uh, realize which ones have been purchased, which ones have been pulled from stock, what’s still left to take care of. There’s uh, not many other systems on the market that take material management to that level.

Toni Clever
Special Projects
Grote Enterprises

In our large company, we have a plumbing division, an HVAC service division, a special projects division, a fabrication shop, and then we have plan and spec work and each of those divisions have their own indirect costs. In some of them, your labor may not be as productive so you may have some indirect labor. In the service management divisions, I have more fleet costs, I have more uniform costs, some small tools. So for me just to say I'm going to allocate a blanket dollar amount per hour across the board, it really doesn't give me an actual measurement of that niche and how profitable that particular type of business is and whether or not we need to strategically develop that area more or perhaps that's not the line of business you should be in. And what indirect costs allows me to do is I can assign a certain burden rate to each division by utilizing job numbers and classes and going into those fields, I can give each division its own indirect rate and, at the same time, then go ahead and measure those pools 'cause it wouldn't be fair, necessarily, for, let's say, a, a plan and spec subcontract job to absorb an indirect rate for a service company because my indirect costs that aren't allocated to jobs are a lot greater on a per hour basis. So you can do a lot of creative things that way.