FAST Production and Project Management

As a cost-conscious homebuilder, the FAST production environment allows you to proof budgets for house plans, plan options, market standard and buyer options prior to construction. In doing so, FAST allows you to verify itemized takeoffs or lump sum bids with the right vendors at the right costs. This guarantees accuracy for both product and supplier. You can perform margin analysis on your plans and options so you know you have the best return on investment as a result of your planning process.

These capabilities come with ancillary tools for managing vendor costs and suggested retails, which are based on specific markets or regions. You’ll reuse single source database records in multiple regions without having to manipulate or alter data on a job-by-job basis. In the FAST production arena, you’ll easily compare vendors’ costs. For example, if you are shopping lumber, the production tools help determine which vendor is most competitive.

Within FAST, you’ll set up retail price books globally, regionally or subdivision-by-subdivision. You’re able to layer retail price books based on how your business needs them structured.

For greater efficiency, FAST lets you build your database and organize information with the least data maintenance, broadest applicability and easiest long-term use. Simply put, this universal tool lets you set up a database, even build a house in the database, all using one single resource. FAST’s strength in data management lies in the ability to store plan or option specific templates, then apply additional layers of subdivision or region specific information, thus making your templates market or demographic specific.

From concept drawings to purchase orders in the subcontractors' hands, FAST gives homebuilders the flexibility to manage information based on internal business practices. You can effectively populate and build your database in a manner that most often serves and addresses your business model. There’s no need to change your business model to serve the software. FAST is as flexible as you need it.

After establishing your business practices, policies and procedures, FAST can ensure your company's pricing and margin policies are adhered to, while it automates the majority of the business experience that is proceeding as planned, leaving the builder more time to focus on unforeseen events. FAST is an adaptable cost control tool that adheres to how you, as a homebuilder, maintain and set employee disciplines within your organization. You'll benefit from greater cost control throughout your entire homebuilding enterprise.

Once all prediction analyses are completed, creating a Job Estimate with the highest degree of accuracy is a foregone conclusion. The resultant Purchase Orders issued to the construction supply chain are one hundred percent complete and accurate.