Challenge continued
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UMC prides itself on being a tech-forward and best-practices-
driven company. It has invested heavily in new manufacturing
and warehouse space in order to streamline work and eliminate
waste, recently opening a 100,000-square-foot facility at its
Everett location.
"We have nearly doubled our manufacturing floor, where we
build prefabricated building systems onsite. Then, we ship
those systems out to the jobsites for installation," Chris Betlach,
UMC's IT director, said. "It minimizes the amount of waste,
significantly decreases the number of errors and the number of
installers and other workers needed at the jobsite. This, in turn,
leads to a more efficient and safer jobsite."
The company is also a long-time user of Trimble Viewpoint
construction management solutions, dating back to 1998 when
it implemented what is now the Vista enterprise resource
planning solution. Over the years, UMC has relied on Vista to
support its growth and meet its construction-specific business
needs.
As technology has advanced, however, Betlach noted the
company had reached a point where it needed to transform its
own operations to keep pace. Specifically, Betlach said, UMC
was looking to reduce the number of third-party systems it
was using and to close collaboration and data gaps between
different construction disciplines like accounting, HR, project
management and service management. Because of the lack of
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