The construction industry has traditionally lagged behind other industries in the adoption of digital capabilities. This is a significant factor as to why jobsite productivity has remained stuck over the past 2+ decades. As the world’s second largest industry, construction projects positively affect communities all around the world, and their impacts are decades or centuries lasting. Today, the opportunity to better steward resources and enrich lives—enabled through new construction technology—is massive.
Command Alkon is dramatically improving how contractors, bulk material suppliers, logistics providers, jobsite inspectors, project owners, and more interact through CONNEX—our collaboration platform built specifically for the heavy work industry.
COLLABORATION
CONNEX allows businesses within the heavy construction industry to harness problem-solving energies and gain insights into every aspect of their supply chain. The platform allows companies to simplify data and analytics across their trading partners, and streamline operations for greater efficiency and productivity.
Command Alkon’s CONNEX Platform helps trading partners conduct business with each other and automate processes. Transactions are executed and information collected to deliver insights with a speed and accuracy that fuels success on the heavy jobsite. CONNEX can gather data from IoT devices, telematics, and more, running analytics to inform about a business’ performance. The CONNEX Solution Suites automate business critical processes in a company and across its trading partners.
SOLUTIONS
Market pressures are squeezing construction budgets, margins, schedules, and material supplies. By digitizing and automating processes across an integrated platform like CONNEX, data-driven heavy materials operations can save time and money, improve safety and compliance, reduce mistakes and downtime, and boost their competitive position. Just 2 to 3 percent of productivity gains translate into multi-billion-dollar savings. Savings from the implementation of Command Alkon solutions can ultimately mean more schools, hospitals, libraries, etc. within a community, making better places to live for all people.
The materials that the heavy work industry makes, hauls, or buys are almost always on the critical path for the end customer. It’s crucial to be able to react quickly to bottlenecks that might throw a wrench in operations and throw jobs off schedule.
Many innovative construction companies are increasingly investing in software that allows them to track and trace these materials from the moment an order is made all the way until the material reaches the jobsite – even after, during the payment process. Seeing more and knowing more as materials and data flow helps to ensure jobs are completed on time and in budget. CONNEX helps to do this by connecting trading partners more precisely, speedily, and easily than ever before, allowing disparate systems to talk to one another. Each constituent has access to the exact same information, enabling greater traceability of products across multiple partners, locations, and facilities.
PLATFORM
Command Alkon has digitized over 35 million material ticket flows between project owners and contractors and their suppliers. The 35 million and rapidly growing automated and paper-free workflows are successfully removing significant transactional costs from projects using our collaboration platform. As transactional costs can represent upwards of 40 percent of a project’s costs, digital competencies go a long way in reducing project spend, and consequently freeing those newly available resources to apply across more projects.
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For more information on Command Alkon’s CONNEX Platform, visit commandalkon.com/connex/.