We offer a range of powerful digital logistics tools that help construction sites, consolidation centres, retailers, airports and more manage their end-to-end logistics process. We currently supply end-to-end logstics systems for some of the UK’s largest airports, retail centres and public service facilities.
We realise that project planning takes many different forms across the international construction sector. That’s why we’ve built a planning platform that is fully customisable by project, region or customer as required. Be it Daily Briefings, Last Planner or Collaborative Planning, our DataTouch system provides a portal whereby works supervisors and planning teams alike can truly impact schedules and programmes.
How The Shore Group and Kier utilise DataScope’s workforce, logistics and DataTouch solutions to drive efficiency across the project. Find out how The Shore Group leverages DataScope’s delivery management system and real-time data to enhance site safety and efficiency through precise scheduling, tracking, and logging of delivery waste streams.
DataTouch is an interactive management tool geared towards planning health & safety critical site activity and communicating it effectively across the entire site team. When used alongside YellowJacket, DataTouch has become an essential tool in planning health & safety critical activity.
During DABS meetings, contractors use drag and drop “hotspots” to plot their daily tasks of work on an interactive digital site plan on the TV. The software allows contractors to clearly mark exclusion zones and hazards. DataTouch can also be used to assist with the planning of traffic in and out of sites as well as fire routes, by simply using an interactive of site, which can easily be drawn on and changed at any time.
DataScope has developed bespoke reporting functionality that identifies when an operative has exceeded more than a specified number of hours on site. This allows managers to deal with and proactively manage operative fatigue, which has a direct impact on the Health, Safety and Wellbeing of all operatives across site.
The system allows managers to filter the report by date and/or company, allowing the Mace team to identify any trends and work with the trades where operative fatigue may become an issue.
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DataTouch has been designed to mobilise the entire supply chain to actively visualise and manage their daily activity, and identify any potential health & safety risk. The ability to get trades to engage with the software to mark out exactly where they will be working or areas where they have concerns allows everyone to visualise and understand how it will affect their own areas of responsibility – and how they affect others across the project.
DataTouch has seen particular significance in its use for the planning of activity being carried out in risers. Riser drawings have been loaded into DataTouch and allow the manager to pinpoint and mark exactly where and when works are to be carried out in the risers, carry out daily audits of planned activity, which in turn has allowed for a more controlled approach to working at height. The software also has built-in functionality which allows the manager to create a comprehensive DABs report after the meeting that collates all of the information gathered on the software during the meeting and instantly emails it to over 100 stakeholders both across the site, as well as to the senior Mace health & safety team. |
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What were the results?
Since the implementation of DataTouch, the time taken to carry out a daily briefing meeting has been cut in half. The ability for the software to electronically store all records of planned activity to be carried out each day has eliminated the need for the Mace team to spend a significant amount of time both preparing for a meeting, and write up a report after the meeting.
DataScope designed, built and provided consultancy services in the implementation of a new end-to-end logistics system for a major third party logistics provider for one of the UK’s largest airports.
After a highly successful development and deployment of a Proof of Concept Logistics System, DataScope was subsequently approached to adapt this system to match the logistics model and demanding specifications of the airport.
Requirements
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While DataScope was provided with a detailed specification, there were areas which required our vast experience in this area to guide the development of certain aspects of the system and suggest changes and improvements to the original specification that we believed would both enhance the software and the end-user experience.
In terms of our approach to the project, DataScope adopted agile software development methodology, meaning that DataScope worked in 2-week sprints to allow for constant review and adaption of the system as it evolved as well as the flexibility to make any late changes to the system build upon a client’s request. Upon system deployment, DataScope provided a comprehensive training package, as well as supplying “Hypercare” to site during the go-live week which meant an around-the-clock on-site presence of a DataScope technical lead to provide support with the transition to the new system.
Measurable BenefitsThe implementation of our system has driven a number of both time and cost-saving benefits to our client. These include:
As a result of the resounding success of the system, DataScope have subsequently developed the system for three additional sites, and are in talks to develop the system even further on two major projects. |
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