Although some companies focus on water mitigation, there are many businesses that perform both water mitigation and general reconstruction property restoration services. There is a lot of opportunity in offering both types of remediation services. Water mitigation involves getting a property dry and stable so that property reconstruction can happen. And of course, there are property restoration jobs that don’t involve water mitigation at all.
While water mitigation and reconstruction are related functions within the disaster restoration services market, they involve quite different workflows and professionals of different skill sets and specialties. That’s why, if your organization performs both water mitigation and general property restoration, you must have both a water loss documentation solution and a job management solution.
Since the divisions of work are different, the functionalities you need to oversee the different types of job must vary accordingly. Having both types of platforms as the foundation for your digital workflows is the only way to optimize your business processes so that you maximize profits and offer the best possible customer service.
It is most beneficial to add a job management to your digital ecosystem that integrates with your loss documentation solution. As a result, if your company uses Mitigate™— CoreLogic’s field documentation application for water mitigation technicians — then you should consider incorporating DASH™ — the CoreLogic® job management software designed specifically for the property restoration industry—into your technology stack.
DASH allows contractors to manage all their jobs — even water mitigation jobs — within one centralized system. With each job getting its own file within the system, DASH is a centralized platform which allows restoration contracting businesses to keep tabs on all jobs, providing a single yet organized source to upload, view, and share documentation for each job — work authorizations, estimates, certificates of satisfaction, invoices, and more.
Also, with DASH, within a simple view, managers can easily understand what jobs have been done, and what must be done next on each job site.
Using DASH, you will be able to increase efficiencies in all areas of business and be optimally suited to consistently meet all levels of compliance, which can be complex when you perform both water mitigation and general reconstruction jobs.
Specifically, here’s what you can do with DASH alongside Mitigate.
Manage your internal resources more efficiently
To ensure maximum productivity and the highest quality of work, contractors must be able to fully manage their internal resources. Internal resources are both onsite technicians as well as the expensive equipment that is necessary to complete remediation and restoration work.
With DASH, you can do this.
DASH provides real-time updates between field and office so nothing gets lost in translation. At any point if the numbers aren’t adding up, management can step in and redirect the job completion strategy.
DASH also provides an intuitive equipment tracker for managing your entire inventory. This feature allows you to maintain control over every piece of equipment you own, providing a centralized location for details on where each machine is, how long it’s committed to a specific project, and when it will be available for the next job. With this function, onsite technicians must use their smartphones to simply scan a unique equipment barcode for the equipment in their care as they bring it or take it from a site. Tracking information is automatically loaded into the DASH equipment manager.
Whether for a water mitigation job or for a restoration job, asset management is central for productivity and profitability. DASH enables you to set up an efficient asset tracking process.
Assert Better Control Over Subcontractors
Efficient job management goes beyond your internal workforce. In the frequent scenario that a full-service property restoration company uses subcontractors to tackle reconstruction jobs, then the business needs a way to organize and oversee this external labor.
When you leverage subcontractors for projects, you must always know when they are coming and going and direct your internal team accordingly to work around them.
With DASH, you can create project schedules that encompass every portion of a project — framing, insulation, drywalling, and everything else in between. The system is smart enough to know the order of operations, so it won’t allow users to schedule a subcontractor for drywalling, for example, until it is reflected in the system that framing and insulation have been completed. This is extremely valuable when you have multiple subcontractors and your own people on a job site — which is common for firms who do recon work. It eliminates the need to have to remember or manually keep track of the progress of each individual party on a worksite.
When working with subcontractors, it is critical that they are qualified to be onsite. Otherwise, the quality and validity of the work is compromised. There is no confusion around this in DASH, though, when working with subcontractors. The system will not let you assign subcontractors to work unless they have the appropriate, up-to-date licenses.
Subcontractors are an external expense, and DASH also allows you to easily budget for projects. With superior job costing features, users can track profit margins for each project type, so if you are using a subcontractor, the system will automatically calculate the maximum amount you can pay these partners and still earn the profit you need to. This allows you to be straightforward with the terms you set with subcontractors.
Enhanced Compliance Support
DASH has a built-in compliance manager that allows managers to customize compliance task lists for onsite professionals. By creating these compliance workflows, contractors ensure that onsite professionals of all skill levels and experience have all the information they need in order to adhere to requirements set by service-level agreements with third-party administrators and insurance companies.
You can set up automated workflows in DASH with in-app notifications that prompt onsite professionals to complete compliance tasks for each job by a certain deadline. DASH also comes with a system that scores all onsite technicians to hold them accountable for working within compliance requirements, then allowing managers to allocate work for future projects optimally.
Users of both Mitigate and DASH will also now benefit from a brand new integration between the two solutions — Automatic Compliance Task Completion. It allows for better, more efficient tracking of compliance tasks during water mitigation projects.
With Automatic Compliance Task Completion, users enter dates of compliance task completion in Mitigate, and it will automatically mark as ‘complete’ in DASH. This synchronization eliminates the need for technicians to duplicate efforts in DASH. As a result, managers back in the office are always aware of where they stand fulfilling compliance requirements on every project. This technology integration reduces the steps and complexities from the often hassle-ridden process of dotting ‘i’s and crossing ‘t’s.
DASH + Mitigate = Optimal Outcomes
In today’s world, there are more frequent and severe disasters, increasing the number of jobs available to project restoration companies. So, as you ramp up business — both water mitigation and general restoration jobs — you need a solution that helps you manage them to ensure work is complete completely and efficiently. DASH presents all the functionalities for full-service restoration companies to do this.
If you use Mitigate, you know the benefits of paperless documentation processes. Make the full transition to going paperless with DASH and take on more jobs, stay on budget with them, and ensure compliance at every turn.
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