Construction Playbook

Accurate Scheduling Accurate scheduling is critical to reducing your cycle times and attracting and retaining the best Trades in your market. At Century, we strive to achieve an even, steady flow of production to the furthest extent possible. What is Even Flow? It is a steady release of home starts over a period of time. For example, releasing two homes per week versus releasing eight homes at once at the end of the month. Even Flow production will help prevent an end of month or quarter rush of closings and keep home closings from slipping to the next period. Working in BuildPro daily and ensuring schedule accuracy will decrease your cycle times, improve the quality of your homes and may reduce costs for our Trade Partners/Suppliers and ultimately Century by eliminating unnecessary trips to a home that is not ready.

Best Practice: When we manage our schedules well and hold our Trade Partners/ Suppliers accountable, we prevent unnecessary dry runs. Dry runs erode the trust and confidence Trade Partners/Suppliers have in Century, often leading to EPO’s (hitting your division’s bottom line).

On-Time Payment Though you are not responsible for issuing checks to our Trade Partners/Suppliers, you do hold the key to releasing payment: through accurate scheduling and proper BuildPro usage. Once you mark a payable task complete in BuildPro, it signals to Accounting the Trade Partner/Supplier has completed their work and is ready to be paid. You do not want to be the reason your Trade Partner/Supplier does not get paid on time. If a task is not 100% complete or was not completed to our quality standards, it is your responsibility to have that discussion with your Trade Partner/Supplier and have them correct the situation before you complete the task in BuildPro and release payment.

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