Specialty Welding & Turnarounds had outgrown its old ERP and needed job costing that could scale from 850 to 2,400+ employees several times a year. We implemented Vista and set it up around how they staff a turnaround.
in year one, from a Vista job-costing system built to scale with their headcount.
Specialty Welding & Turnarounds provides construction and turnaround services for the refining, petrochemical, and ammonia markets across North America. The work scales hard: headcount runs from 850 to more than 2,400 several times a year as turnarounds ramp up and wind down.
SWAT had outgrown their previous ERP software. The team spent too much time entering information into a system that wasn't built for their business, and that inefficiency led to missed billings and inaccurate data.
We implemented job costing in Viewpoint Vista and built it around the way SWAT staffs a turnaround. We then layered in Chroma to give their team real-time visibility into the numbers.
In year one, the move returned about $170,000: roughly $100,000 in improved job billing and $70,000 a year in recovered staff time. Just as important, SWAT gained real-time insight into the business as it scaled.
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