SUCCESS STORY
How WorkBuddy powered First Choice Fencing to enhance visibility across all business units
Employee productivity
job processing
Administration
The Story of First Choice Fencing
First Choice Fencing Pty Ltd was established in 2003 to provide reliable and competitively priced options for fabrication and fencing related products in the residential, commercial, civil, and maintenance sectors. Their scope of works includes construction, renovation, consulting, architecture, and electrical services. Since its inception as a fencing company, the business has grown substantially to an organisation with subsidiary companies in metal works and fabrication trades.
Subsidiaries
- FCF Fabrication Pty Ltd
- FCF Group Pty Ltd
- FCF Maintenance Pty Ltd
Industry
Construction Fencing
With WorkBuddy
Since 2006
Business Size
Medium
Challenge
Multi-company access and automated tracking
“We love that WorkBuddy is so robust and flexible. WorkBuddy is always open to customer feedback and keeping the product great at managing my jobs.”
First Choice Fencing
SOLUTION
Separate companies, united by one system
As a multi-company business with four separate subsidiaries under one banner, First Choice Fencing needed the option to view all their data in one place. By utilising the multi-company management features in WorkBuddy, they can:
- Manage multiple business entities without the need for separate logins.
- Share job information between business entities.
- Filter information related to an individual company.
- Run reports on an individual business entity or the group of businesses as a whole.
Multi-company features also assist First Choice Fencing with:
- User access permission groups
WorkBuddy made it easy for First Choice fencing to grant or restrict user access. We set up user permission groups based on employee roles or responsibilities to limit the visibility of those users to specific areas and fields in WorkBuddy.
- Asset management
- Comprehensive business reporting
Business reporting makes it easy to run operational or financial reports on each business unit, promoting full transparency across the company.
- Work order management
It’s now easy for First Choice Fencing to create, complete and track work orders. The WorkBuddy operations board provides a full view of employee workload where they can drag and drop jobs into their schedules, and assign users to a job. They can also send alerts to employees by email or mobile notification when a work order is triggered that belongs to them.
- Storage of all job records in one place
The goal was to get rid of spreadsheets, handwritten notes and forms and have one system to store all company data. WorkBuddy provided one system to keep all essential job records and data of the businesses under the First Choice Fencing banner. They can also copy across their inventory, clients and suppliers across to any business unit.
A cloud-based time-tracking system to quickly enter time on any job
- keep track of employee hours
- Improve project schedules
- review team performance
Reduced risk and improved job safety
First Choice Fencing needed compliance controls to help ensure all employees met contractual and WHS requirements when completing a job. They needed to track employee certificates, insurance, police checks, induction evidence, and trade licences.
THE RESULTS
Reduced administration effort, increased profits
- Faster timesheet completion
- Enhanced visibility across all business units
- Improved employee productivity
- Increased invoicing turnaround
- More billable hours
- Increased overall revenue
“The team at WorkBuddy made it so easy to implement and use the platform. We now have greater visibility and control over our operations, with our business on the path to growth.”
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