KBS

KBS is a $200 Million annual revenue Commercial GC in Richmond, VA who has been working with Barbour Consulting since our inception in 2002.

Our work at KBS started with Timberline consulting including a needs analysis of their Timberline setup and related accounting and project management business processes. We identified a much needed overhaul of their Timberline setup including a Key Change that changed the structure of their GL and Job Cost for improved reporting to keep up with their fast growing company.

We continued working with KBS staff and management to take full advantage of Timberline functionality including:

• Cost Forecasting by PM’s in Timberline
• Self serve, web based job cost reports and dashboards for Execs and PM’s
• PM forecasts roll up into WIP report generated directly from Timberline rather than Excel
• Gross Profit report from Timberline resulting in direct support of Income statement Gross Profit by PM and Job.
• Implementation of Timberline’s Project Management Module for Document Control and Change Management
• Safety inspection tracking using Custom Logs.

BC also provided KBS with several custom web applications including Staffing assignments and resource planning and Revenue forecasting with data stored in Timberline.

To pull everything together, BC implemented Sharepoint at KBS as a platform for Executive and management reporting and dashboards along with providing user access to custom web applications and corporate documents. Using these integrated web applications, users can directly update forecasts, staffing assignments and while seeing the effect on reports and dashboards dynamically.

KBS also pioneered the use of GCPay, a leading web based billing and subcontractor management portal for contractors. GCPay allows PM’s and subcontractors to submit schedule of values, change orders and pay applications via the web with tight integration into Timberline. Using GCPay’s powerful billing interface, Pm’s can immediately catch under billed items due to available actual cost and subcontractor billing data. Subcontractor AP processing is dramatically improved with GCPay’s upfront PM approvals and direct write of invoice transactions to Timberline AP.

KBS continues to leverage technology with the assistance of Barbour Consulting to enable its growth and to maintain its position as a leader in its industry.