Why it is so Profitable for your Production Team to Know your Snow Capacities.

Production 

MUST Know

What they Can Produce.

What is the next thing you do in your company – once the contract is signed from the client?

How will your production team start preparing for producing the work – once given the signed contract?

How do you, the owner, make sure your production team has the resources and can do the work your sales team sold?

And

How do you know that the client will be taken care during the season and also get what they paid for?

Capacity Boards are one of the simplest ways to answer the above questions. These boards will help you and your teams know what are the capacities with labor, with equipment, with the tools, and with the materials.

Capacity Boards help keep the Sales Department where they are in the selling process: from not selling to capacity, from selling too much, or promising something that the company will not be able to deliver.

And before the Snow Season starts, Capacity Boards help the Production Department know that they can produce the work that will come through its doors. And if they need more resources, they will know immediately, not during the snow season.

The Capacity Boards are created preseason and before the start of the sales process. First, they give the sales department a cap… a maximum amount of work that it can sell. Let me rephrase ”cap”:

I am an owner, I believe that there are no such thing as too much snow work. But I back up my statement with giving my team the resources and tools to get it done. I will tell you a story of taking on too much work in the live webinar.

This reduces a lot of headaches because now you know exactly what you can produce and what you can sell. It also gives you an idea of where your production bottlenecks are and where you need to increase capacity in order to grow your company beyond its current size.

The types of capacity boards:

There are Five Main Capacity Boards:

• Truck Boards – The number of trucks, types of plows, and type of ice control equipment the company has for a snow event.
• Subcontractor Boards – The subcontractor workforce that will be part of your team. This also has the number of men, trucks, plows, ice control equipment, and equipment of each company.
• Labor Boards – The production men and women and their qualifications: driver, snow plower, snow shoveler, large equipment operator, etc.
• Material Boards – The number of containers, the type of ice-control materials: sand, bulk salt, bag salt, and liquids.

How to Create Capacity Boards

Capacity Boards are created either electronically or physically. A spreadsheet would be one way of creating the capacity boards

And another is using white boards on the production room wall.

I happen to be partial to large erasable 8 x 4 white boards that can be screwed to the walls of the production room. I like to see the whole picture of my capacities, my site work, my routes, as well as maps of the zones.

How to Use Capacity Boards

Example of the information for your Trucks and Equipment:

Before the beginning of the Snow Season, fill in each of the boards with all the required resource information.

I will share the benefit of each board.

1. For the Truck Equipment Board, fill in trucks, plow types, plow size, sander, large equipment, and smaller equipment.
   1. Benefit: Each truck can do a specific number of hours of plowing. Knowing the total amount of hours / acres one truck can plow, you will now know the lot and ice control capacity.
2. For Subcontractors Board, fill in each subcontractor, how many trucks, equipment, and employee available to you.
   1. Benefit: You will know the total acres/hours of snow plowing and total hours of shoveling each sub can perform. Hence, the total amount of work they can perform.

3. For Labor Boards, fill in your employees, if drivers, if crew, and equipment they know.
   1. Benefit: How many total hours you have to operate trucks, equipment, and shoveling.

4. For Material Boards, fill in what type of materials, total amount of materials, and where located.
   1. Benefit: How much material you will have for the season, when you will need to order, and where to deliver it to.

Conclusion:

         We shared how to prepare the company and the clients for the Snow Season.

We now shared what resources you have to sell and to support both your company and your client.

Next: Creating the Routes for 90% of the snow events.

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