Last Planner System

Last Planner System

The Last Planner System was developed at the Lean Construction Institute and is designed to improve the reliability of the commitments of the team members. Last Planner System is a system of inter-related elements, and full benefits come when all are implemented together.

Teams need to embrace new habits for any new approach to succeed. With Last Planner system, planning is a collaborative effort and the participants work together to identify which work can be completed and when. Last Planner System encourages collaboration and coordination among team members.

Gameplan Last planner System

Gameplan Time is a project manager’s best companion. Project teams can create collaborative plans and schedules online and share them with their teams for effective communication and coordination.

Gameplan Time helps you create master schedules and weekly and look ahead plans with your team members. It helps you implement Last Planner™ system easily and with less overhead time for managing the process. With Gameplan Last Planner System, you can plan in detail as you get closer to doing the job and take decisions at last responsible moment.

GamePlan Last Planner System

Top Features

1. Project scheduling and Gantt Chart: Gameplan Last Planner System  displays your open items, project performance charts, weather information and other relevant and important information tailored to your needs. Unlike other construction project management software packages, Gameplan offers a choice of views that goes beyond the standard scheduling software Gantt chart.

2. Stikies Board: See a project schedule in a calendar view by day, week or month – or stick to the traditional Gantt view. Gameplan makes it easy to use the view that’s easiest for you.

3. Pull , look ahead and weekly work planning: Gameplan Last Planner System, helps you create master schedules and weekly and look ahead plans with your team members.

4. Constraint/Roadblock analysis: With Gameplan, the construction project schedule is also be supplemented with constraint analysis, quick reports, detailed reports on percentage plan complete, reasons for incomplete assignments and constraint (roadblock) removal performance. 

5. Readiness analysis: Gameplan readiness analysis is to clearly define the concept, to establish its unique benefits and to assess the implementation potential of the construction technology.

6. Resource planning and time conflict management: Gameplan Resources helps manage employees, labor, material and tools equipment. Gameplan management theorists have recognized the fact that groups tend to storm before performing, then resolve such issues satisfactorily and motivate staff to seek acceptable solutions.

Top Benefits

1. Make predictable and reliable project plans : With Gameplan, your entire team will always know they’re viewing the latest, most up-to-date schedule right in Gameplan. Use Gameplan powerful reporting tools to generate reports and visualizations very useful for you and your team & keep track of performance. All things combined make the Gameplan a predictable and reliable project plan.

2. Encourage coordination and collaboration among field and office teams:  With Gameplan, you can encourage people to collaborate and coordinate and not worry of tracking documentation and knowledge transfer. Gameplan tracks and documents everything for you. The process setup on Gameplan will make learning faster.

3. Plan in detail as you get closer to doing the work: With Gameplan Time, you can plan in detail as you get closer to doing the job and take decisions at last responsible moment.

4. Reduce waste of time, resources and money: Game Plan Scheduling Module is based on lean construction principles, designed especially for reducing waste and increasing value of construction. Web based software makes Last Planner Implementation smoother.

Construction Team Collaboration

Gameplan Construction Team Collaboration

GamePlan Team is a project wide collaboration and social platform. Professionals from different organizations who are working on the same project can discuss ideas, share information and coordinate work using GamePlan Team.

GamePlan is web based construction management solution that helps you easily collaborate with others to quickly plan and deliver winning construction projects. Using GamePlan architects, engineers and construction project managers can easily manage project resources, organize project information and do office and field collaboration like no other tool.

Gameplan Construction Team Collaboration Top Feature

1.       Project wide social networking:   GamePlan makes all your project information available to you everywhere. You can access your plans, drawings and resource information using any device with an internet connection using Gameplan.

2.       Collaboration space for discussions and file sharing:  Gameplan allows for any user to establish a Collaboration Space for discussions. Gameplan  uses a unique, custom-built multiple file uploader that allows you to easily select multiple files and upload them all at one time and share with each other within organization.

3.       Photo management: Gameplan support photo management facilities, that make it easy to find, organize and share image and video files.

4.       Task Management : Gameplan Collaborate on tasks, and keep all the files in a centralized place.

5.       Contact Management : Gameplan support  Contact  management facilities, that enables to easily store and find contact information, such as names, addresses and telephone numbers.

Gameplan Construction Team Collaboration Top Benefits

1.       Collaborate and coordinate effectively and efficiently :  GamePlan is centered on smooth collaboration and coordination principles. With GamePlan, you can encourage people to collaborate and coordinate and not worry of tracking documentation and knowledge transfer. GamePlan makes it easy for you and your team's work faster and collaborate effortlessly across teams, companies and locations

2.       Keep entire project team on same page : Game plan User Dashboard gives you all the important information on your projects in one single location. Whether you have any project , you can see everything  that ‘s going on at once. With an entire project on one page, nothing gets lost and your team always knows where things are.

3.       Share photos with team for real time status updates : Gameplan  has an Activity Stream that displays the activities happening on all your projects. A good example will be the real time update of all the files uploaded on the system, tasks started and stopped and photos added in the system.

4.       Streamline task management : Gameplan task management can help you achieve a strong and steady flow to task management. Gameplan Task management platforms enable the collaboration and sharing of information on a wide scale, helping small businesses and their employees attain collective goals

5.       Share important project contacts : Gameplan Sharing Contact Lists. Well-managed contact lists can be important to project productivity.

Gameplan : Construction Transmittal

Construction Transmittal

If your construction company does any commercial construction projects, you may know about the need for using transmittals.

A construction transmittal is a form used for sending any information between two parties to a construction deal. This transmittal assists with each party in keeping track of the dates when construction materials are delivered and received.

Gameplan gives  the records not only of the transmittal documentation but also of the transmitted attachments to all parties , and also to be able to demonstrate the dates the transmittal documents  were despatched or received.

There are two important reasons to use construction transmittals:

• One is as a means of keeping track of the communications sent and received between the parties involved in a construction project .
•  The other is to maintain a record of all communications sent and received in case it is necessary to refer to that record for any reason, such as legal disputes or liability.

Gameplan Transmittal

Construction Transmittal is a formal process used by Engineering and Construction Companies to transmit Drawings to other Engineers, Sub-contractors, Vendors and Fabricators. The sender of a Drawing Transmittal in Gameplan  provide a reason for sending the drawings, a special message and a date by which a response is required. GamePlan construction transmittal  Documents is designed to exclusively serve construction project document control requirements.

Gameplan  for Engineering and Construction has excellent built-in process support for document management in technical projects. The solution is designed to ensure quality control in processes for creation, review and approval of internally produced documentation, as well as processes for handling of receipts, return of documents to the supplier and transmission to the customer. 

Gameplan  is a very poular software package used to make the function of Drawing Transmittal very easy. Gameplan Construction Transmittal Log allows a complete list of a project's transmittals to be viewed in a clear, organized format. Transmittal lists can be quickly searched for key terms, so that long lists can be scanned for the needed documentation in few seconds .

By using effective Drawing Gameplan Construction Transmittal  system it is possible to reduce mistakes associated with working with superseded drawings. This reduces costs and possible extensions of time on the project.

With GamePlan, you can encourage people to collaborate and coordinate and not worry of tracking documentation and knowledge transfer. GamePlan tracks and documents everything for you. The process setup on GamePlan will make learning faster.

With Gameplan  for Engineering and Construction, you improve your business results through reduced business risks and  better support for your various processes.

GamePlan Field and Reporting Facility

GamePlan Field is designed to make drawings and specifications available for construction team and to create field reports, issues, punch lists, commissioning items, quality control checklists.

GamePlan provides a comprehensive reporting tool that helps you generate the project performance, forecast and other reports easily. GamePlan also helps you generate pre formatted PDF files that you can easily share with your team and post on job sites.

We believe that Information in visual form is anytime better than tables and spreadsheets. So, we built visuals for you that make data and process visualization easier. GamePlan screens can be shared on job sites and offices to make full use of the information available to team.

GamePlan Construction Transmittal

Top Features

1. Daily reporting from anywhere, anytime

2. Issue Management

3. Punch list management

4. Progress photo reporting

5. Checklists for safety and quality control

Top Benefits

1. Improved office and field coordination

2. Real time progress updates from field

3. Real time problem solving

4. More working and less time searching for documents and information

Gameplan : Submittal A Special Feature

Submittal

Submittals are documents that must accompany items being sent, such as sample materials, plans, etc. Submittals typically require a response from the recipient, so it is necessary to track when, and whether a response has been received.

Submittals are required by the contract in order to regulate the timely flow of materials to be

incorporated in the work. Submittals are necessary to prove that the proposed materials are in compliance with the contract.

Throughout the design and construction of a project, large volumes of documentation move back and forth between managers, administrators and decision makers. It can be a complex process to keep track of who has seen which documents and what has been reviewed or approved. Add to that complexity the time it takes to create, print and ship and track paper copies of submittal information.

GamePlan Submittal Manager

With GamePlan submittal Manager is designed to completely organize and streamline the management, review and tracking of construction project submittals such as RFI’s, Hardware and Finish Schedules. With GamePlan submittal Manager everyone involved can easily complete their work and know where others are in the process enabling faster and easier.

The number of submittals required for a project of any size can quickly add up. With GamePlan submittal Manager  makes the process of creating, managing, and tracking submittals simple and straightforward.

GamePlan Submittal Manager  helps you create master schedules and weekly and look ahead plans with your team members. With GamePlan , you can plan in detail as you get closer to doing the job and take decisions at last responsible moment. It helps you implement Last Planner™ system easily and with less overhead time for managing the process.

GamePlan provides a comprehensive reporting tool that helps you generate the project performance, forecast and other reports easily. GamePlan also helps you generate pre formatted PDF files that you can easily share with your team and post on job sites.

GamePlan Visualization 

We believe that Information in visual form is anytime better than tables and spreadsheets. So, we built visuals for you that make data and process visualization easier. GamePlan screens can be shared on job sites and offices to make full use of the information available to team.

We understand that being a human it is not always possible to manage all your work and personal information in your head. GamePlan  designed a system that gives you alerts, warnings, reminders and notifications based on your preferences.

GamePlan Submittal Document

Top Features

1. File cloud for storing drawings, specifications and other project documents

2. Document tracking for better document control

3. Business process workflow automation for transmittals, submittals, correspondence,

    change orders, request for information (RFI) and meeting minutes

4. Revision management of documents such as drawings and specifications

Top Benefits

1. Anytime, anywhere secure access to project documents

2. Document trail and user activity logs for auditing and conflict resolution purposes

3. Controlled sharing of project information

4. Faster document transfer and shorter response time

5. Better coordination and collaboration