CASE STUDY
HOFFMAN BROS. INC.
When Ed and Ellis Hoffman founded a small excavation business six decades
ago, they began by digging basements during the 1947 post-war construction
boom. Today, the brothers' small business has expanded to become one
of Michigan's leading excavation companies, with services including road,
highway and airport construction, underground utilities and sitework.
Challenges
As an organization that employs over 100 construction professionals, and
owns and operates over 100 pieces of equipment, Hoffman Bros., Inc.
knows the importance of productivity. So when the company realized
that they needed a new solution to track costs in the fi eld, they knew they
required one that would save time and reduce the potential for errors
by eliminating redundant data entry by fi eld supervisors and accounting
personnel. Employees had been using a combination of manual forms and
custom Excel spreadsheets for fi eld tracking, a system that had been in
place for decades—and one that made collection and interpretation of
data time consuming and inaccurate.
Solutions
• "We looked at other systems that only did part of what we needed.
B2W Track brought everything we had been looking for together in
one package."
• "B2W Track is very comprehensive, and user friendly at the same time.
We introduced it to some of our supervisors who had zero computer
experience—they were able to learn the software and begin using it
with very minimal training."
COMPANY PROFILE
• Name:
Hoffman Bros. Inc.
• Headquarters:
Battle Creek, MI
• Work Types:
Roads, Highway, Excavating,
Sitework, Underground
• Elements: Estimate, Track
• Client Since: 2006
• B2W User Conferences: 5
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