Business Process Management (BPM) by BuilderMT

You already know how to create efficient business processes, but how do you enforce them? With so many stakeholders, contractors and staffers involved in the building process, it can be difficult to hold them accountable and ensure your business processes are running efficiently.

Business process management software has emerged into the industry to solve this challenge, amalgamating application software, project correspondence and business processes into a single software program. BuilderMT BPM is at the fore.Business Process Management (BPM) by BuilderMT helps contractors create automated construction business processes. Using icons that represent construction activities, you can arrange them on screen to illustrate and define an optimized business process. The system has an intuitive GUI, similar to a computer chess game. When arranging icons, you are actually adding or removing steps to the business process. The icons can even be tied to back-end processes that can generate purchase orders, schedules, notifications, contracts and more. This would normally take expensive custom coding by trained computer programmers.

BPM is a fully customizable home builder software system that allows you to create an automated business process for nearly any scenario. For example, if you were a homebuilder, you could set up a process that will automatically identify a new purchase order, match it up with the appropriate construction project, then email sales and purchasing, alerting them to adjust the home price to reflect the change in costs. If the price isn’t changed within a specific time frame, you can create a trigger to automatically send email alerts to additional team leaders.

Creating a function like this is easy using BPM because it integrates with any web-enabled wireless device, any purchase order system, Microsoft Office applications and Sage Timberline Office.

BPM helps you visualize construction business processes – This illustration represents a process that gathers variance information from BuilderMT's Workflow Management Suite (WMS) database, loops through each variance and calculates a percentage. If the variance is over 20%, then the project manager is automatically notified. Instead of having to read reports, or potentially miss this critical budget variance altogether, the system proactively notifies the business instantly.

BPM gives home builders added levels of control and accountability within their organization. It provides keen insight into company strengths and weaknesses, helping you identify what activities need improvement. The result is more efficient business operations, reduced costs and greater profitability.