CASE 04 · TRADE CONTRACTOR
Right crew. Right site.
Right materials.
An internal-walls contractor was coordinating crews, deliveries and site progress by phone and experience. Cyberate built the system that connects material demand and labour scheduling in one operational view.
- User type: Specialist trade contractor
- System: Materials & Labour
- Focus: Multi-site coordination
- Status: Live deployment
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THE OPERATING CONTEXT
Coordination by phone was costing days.
Trade contractors lose margin quietly when the wrong thing arrives at the wrong time. Materials can land before crews are ready. Crews can arrive before materials are on site. A delay on one project can ripple into another without anyone seeing it until the day is already lost.
- Materials without crews: Stock arrived on site with nobody scheduled to install it.
- Crews without materials: Teams turned up where the required material had not arrived.
- Parallel sites created conflicts: Multiple sites competed for the same crews and delivery windows.
- The real cost was hidden: Idle time, repeat deliveries and rescheduling were absorbed as normal friction.
WHAT WE BUILT
One view linking progress, material demand and crew rosters.
Cyberate built a materials and labour scheduling system where site progress drives material demand and labour allocation together. Delivery timing, quantities and crew assignments are coordinated in one view across parallel sites.
- Progress-linked demand: Each site's current stage determines what material and labour are needed next.
- Crew rostering: Crews are allocated against site demand, not scheduled in isolation.
- Delivery coordination: Materials are timed to arrive when the site and team are ready.
- Multi-site visibility: Parallel sites are coordinated together, making conflicts visible earlier.
- Change handling: When the plan changes, the system shows the knock-on effect.
HOW IT WORKS
Site progress drives the next material and labour decision.
- Update site progress: The current stage of each site is visible to the coordination team.
- Generate demand: The system identifies upcoming material and labour requirements.
- Coordinate deliveries and crews: Delivery timing and crew rosters are planned together.
- Manage conflicts across sites: When one site moves, conflicts with other sites surface before the day is lost.
THE OUTCOME
Less idle time. More parallel capacity.
Idle time and material mismatches were reduced significantly. The same team can coordinate more parallel sites because the coordination logic no longer lives only in phone calls, memory and nightly rescheduling.
- Fewer material mismatches: Deliveries are tied to the stage and crew that need them.
- Reduced idle time: Crews are less likely to arrive without the materials required to work.
- Better parallel-site control: Multiple projects can be coordinated from one shared view.
- Less phone-call scrambling: The operating picture is visible before problems reach site.