The last piece of the puzzle

If you have control over this, reaching your company's full potential will be much easier.

Overall Contractor Efficiency is a measurement of your internal processes, your administrative procedures and is the last of the four pillars of efficiency that describes the Visual Registrations Efficiency Cycle.

At this point you have evaluated equipment (OEE) , resources (ORE) and materials (OME) . You have been striving to optimize your workflows, you may have looked at LEAN, optimized your quality of materials, discussed delivery guarantees with your suppliers, and you have worked with your employees to identify best-practices of their workflows. What could possibly be left to do? What could be left to improve?

I am sure you have heard the old saying of the 5 P’s : Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance.  Well, It is time to embrace that last bit of efficiency improving measures, the final piece of Kaizen that makes is all come together – your internal processes. Your planning, management and administrative processes.

“Total contractor efficiency is a measurement of your internal processes and administrative procedures. »

Release your full potential

Processes and procedures are the last part of the efficiency cycle . It is a daunting and difficult task to optimize, and yet the full potential of the business can never be released unless the processes are good enough.

When planning projects and processes, you need to consider and evaluate:

  • Service intervals for equipment
  • Certification of employees
  • Delivery of necessary materials
  • Invoicing and salary conditions
  • Data interaction between several systems
  • Work documentation in projects and tasks
  • Time registration of all parties involved
  • Reporting and overview
  • Offer based on previous project results
  • ROI calculations and forecasts on projects
  • Risk assessments and possible outcomes
  • Presentation and transparency of selected data to suppliers, customers and employees
  • Regulatory issues like mine affect operations

A difficult and complex task

With all these parameters to consider, planning a project is a difficult and complex task. You therefor need to ensure that the systems you utilize are capable of integrating these parameters into your process, and thus make your business efficient, flexible and agile. Secondly you have to be certain that the system of choice integrates to your ERP, salary and/or other systems on site that you are operating.

VRS ' efficiency cycle is based on many years of experience as a supplier and contractor for the industry. During these years, we have seen the influence and effect of the pillars on the company when the focus is shifted away from the important elements.

We've developed this efficiency cycle to ensure you have a tool to understand your business and more easily dedicate focus where it's needed – when it's needed. In addition, we have developed the Visual Registration System (VRS) based on these very principles.

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