For more than 35 years, GivenHansco has been an innovative leader in developing integrated, producer-driven software products for the ready-mix construction industry. GivenHansco has streamlined the industry standard of power and flexibility in developing the award winning Keystone suite of Accounting, Batch, Dispatch, and GPS products under one user-friendly platform. At the World of Concrete 2015 in Las Vegas, GivenHansco showcased two new products: Keystone On-Demand Mobile App and Keystone FX.
KEYSTONE ON-DEMAND
An extension of its advanced Keystone Dispatch, Truck Tracking, and Financials suite, On–Demand is the first-of-its-kind mobile app providing live business intelligence to ready-mix sales personnel, plant managers, and owners in the field.
On-Demand is written for and compatible with most iPad and Android devices. “Rather than mimic the functionality of our desktop applications, we took great care to create an app focused on the essential tasks that mobile employees need to accomplish.
On-Demand is responsive and easy to use with a clean, modern design. The app leverages the vast array of data from the Keystone Office Suite, yet doesn’t overwhelm the user with information overload,” according to Mike Sanders, GivenHansco president.
On-Demand opens up a new realm of streamlined customer service possibilities for today’s concrete industry. A multitude of functions provides an immediate overview of focused information that can be leveraged from virtually anywhere including:
- Drill-down schedule data from plant overview to ticket detail
- Track truck on-job times and view live GPS map
- View customer account balances and ticket history
- Give salesmen jobsite awareness that allows them to solve problems on-site
Keystone On-Demand is being touted as “The Intelligent Mobile App.” According to Ron Wallace, GivenHansco vice president, “The key inspiration for Keystone On-Demand is to put the power of Keystone in the palm of your hand. With anytime, anywhere access to critical information, producers gain the power to serve their customers in a newly effective and efficient manner.”
KEYSTONE FX
Keystone FX, “The Streamlined Reporting Solution,” allows ready-mix producers to pull vital data from the Keystone Accounting and Dispatch suite, and dynamically link data to Microsoft® Excel to create convenient, customized, and reliable reports.
This unique, industry specific financial reporting suite takes advantage of data from the user’s entire operation—combining all levels of data into Excel templates for flexible report productivity. Keystone FX is a simple, yet sophisticated tool for making customized financial statements and balance sheets. In addition, FX simplifies the creation of reports on the whole Keystone suite, including: general ledger, accounts payable, payroll, sales, and dispatch. Starting with prebuilt templates, Keystone users simply hit the “Create Report” button and reports are quickly created and opened in Excel. By leveraging in-house Excel expertise reports can be customized and extra features, such as charts and pivot tables, can be quickly added based on their desired parameters.
A myriad of Keystone financial and operational data can be leveraged into customized FX reports, including:
- Flexibility to present actual and budget amounts for any period
- Leverage Excel formulas to create period to period or budget to period comparisons
- Multi-month/multi-year reports and analysis for any amount or year
- Unlimited number of plant, divisional, and consolidated reports
- Compare financial amounts against unit quantities, such as sales quantities and payroll hours
- Customized schedules and sub reports for field managers
- Alternative presentation profiles featuring owner’s views, manager’s views, etc
- Group and rearrange accounts (subtotals can be added anywhere)
Ultimately, Keystone FX’s integrated reporting tools allow small-to-mid-size producers to compete with the bigger production players by giving them an easy way to run operational reporting with the type of comprehensive information usually leveraged by large corporations. Unlike other expensive and cumbersome tools, FX is cost-effective and offers a simple, user-friendly structure—automatically importing cross-platform data into no-hassle Excel spreadsheet templates to make convenient, custom reports.
Another essential feature of Keystone FX is that it exploits the unique National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA) integration built into Keystone Financials to facilitate generations of the NRMCA survey report. Taking advantage of the NRMCA survey is the smart way for producers to track how their company compares to the industry.
Additionally, FX can provide Key Performance Index Reports that measure the productivity of individual plants. Tracking factors, such as yards per hour or sales quantity vs. budget quantity, provides managers immediate and specific data for each plant.
According to Craig Hanson, GivenHansco’s vice president, “Our design platform was inspired by input from customers who were frustrated by the limitations and cost constraints of non-industry specific competing tools. The goal was to streamline the spreadsheet format to leverage Keystone’s comprehensive financial and operational data into a reliable, flexible, and hassle-free reporting platform.” ■
About The Author: For more information about the products and services provided by GivenHansco, visit www.givenhansco.com.
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Modern Contractor Solutions, June 2015
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