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Why Heavy Civil Construction Companies Need to Automate Their Dispatching

18 May 2022

Flow chart of phone calls required for construction equipment move

Heavy civil construction companies are complex organisms with multiple divisions touching the same equipment and the same sites. Yet, these divisions often have limited visibility into each other’s interactions as it relates to their sites and equipment. This is simply because if we try to keep everyone in the loop the entire day would be spent on the phone, and no one would get any work done.

Think of a basic dispatch request; a field superintendent requests a machine to be moved from one site to another. In order to keep everyone on your team in the loop who need to be in the loop, it will require 13 phone calls and if the schedule changes it will be another 13 phones (See diagram). Another typical but more complex dispatch involves equipment breaking down and as a result a replacement machine needs to be moved in. Without another diagram, I am sure you get the picture; 13 phone calls for the equipment breaking down, another 6 to analyze what to do and another 13 to move the equipment. No wonder people are left in the dark! It costs money to leave your team in the dark but so does spending all day on the phone.

What if there was a software program that could do this all for you? What if that program automatically identified and automatically notified the right people for any dispatch or event relevant to them?

This is not a sci-fi concept anymore thanks to Vizzn. Vizzn is the world’s leading dispatch and scheduling software, and it does exactly that!

In fact, Vizzn handles the entire dispatch and all relaying of information automatically and without requiring a single phone call.

And if that is not enough, Vizzn also makes your dispatchers’ lives easier and their dispatches so much more streamlined and transparent. Every dispatch is automatically collected and moved into action by simply dragging and dropping.

With Vizzn, having every team in the loop on relevant dispatches and events will enable your company to make better decisions every day, guaranteeing more profit.