Business Overview
Gibbs Landscape Company, a family-owned and operated business in its fourth decade of service, has earned the reputation as Atlanta’s premier landscaping company. Gibbs employs over 175 people year-round with team managers that oversee all field crew activities. Gibbs prides itself on quality and creativity and has won over 200 awards.
Business Challenge
Gibbs has grown at a steady pace over many years and knew that opportunities existed to increase the efficiency of the operations in multiple areas. One of the most challenging areas for Gibbs to manage was the weekly paper payroll forms submitted by team leaders and crew members, materials and chemicals used, labor productivity, budget tracking and customer invoicing. In addition, Gibbs management knew they needed to gain more visibility into worker activities in the field. “We were growing so fast and it just did not make economic sense to keep adding more managers out in the field and more administrative help to process the paper,” said Hugh Cooper, General Manager of Gibbs Landscape.
Solution
• Corrigo WORKTRACK provides the flexibility and ease of use necessary for Gibbs’ office operations.
• A web-based tool, Corrigo WORKTRACK allows easy access to the system from anywhere.
• Corrigo’s GPS-based timesheet is simple for the field crew to use.
• Corrigo’s WORKTRACK application allows managers and team leaders to report time and activity for an entire crew by just pushing a few buttons on a cell phone.
Results
• Gibbs saved over $1,000 per worker per year.
• Gibbs Landscape completely eliminated their paper time sheet overhead using mobile phones.
• WORKTRACK saved each crew leader 20 minutes of productivity per day.
• Real dollar savings were seen the very first day of implementation.
• Gibbs tracks and reports on integrated payroll and job data.
“We saw real dollar savings the very first day of implementation. I checked the web site to see where one of my guys had been during a two-hour period that he was supposed to be on a job and found his GPS tracking to show he was running a personal errand on company time, using a company truck and charging the company for the gas. I figured that saved us about $350.”
Hugh Cooper, General Manager , Gibbs Landscape
