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Software tools, apps and other digital solutions may not be immediately associated with the infrastructure sector. Yet it is a sector that benefits pre-eminently from digitization, given the many administrative tasks that are often performed manually. This can be done many times more efficiently, according to Runo Jansen of beeproger, developer of customized software solutions. “Digitalization leads to higher efficiency and more job satisfaction.”
More than nine years ago, Beeproger took its first steps in the GWW industry. “We were called in by an earthmoving company to build a tool for digitizing various administrative processes, such as the declaration of hours and mileage registration. We picked that up together with the customer and it is still being used to full satisfaction,” Jansen knows. “By now we are many years down the road and have expanded our portfolio in the GWW quite a bit. Through digitization, we ensure that people don't have work to do, making processes run much more smoothly and significantly reducing the margin of error. Fewer people can work more accurately with much more data.”
According to Jansen, digitization is inevitable to remain relevant as an organization in the future. Yes, also in the GWW. “We are facing an enormous social task, in which production has to increase substantially in the coming years, while on the other hand we are struggling with an increasing aging population,” Jansen rightly states. “Not only is the available capacity shrinking, but a lot of knowledge is also being lost. It is important to secure that knowledge in digital processes in good time. The moment you digitize the entire flow of information exchange within the organization and possibly even between other organizations in a chain cooperation, much more time is left to focus on core tasks. It also results in better control and monitoring over the administrative processes. Management has quick insight into the state of affairs. Apart from being efficient, it is above all much more sustainable to work paperless.”
Beeproger builds only custom solutions. “We now know after more than nine years of experience in GWW that no two companies work the same way,” says Jansen. “So if you opt for a standard application, that means you have to conform to the way the software is set up. That, in my view, is not future-proof. Companies that want to grow do so in their own way and not in a generic way that the software developer has come up with. That is why we believe in a customized solution that we design together with the customer. Based on a four- to six-week inventory round, we create a functional description with the basic and starting points for our cooperation. The dot on the horizon is also determined. We then cut the project into pieces so that we can work together on a basic version
that can go live quickly and is constantly being optimized and developed.”
Beeproger always builds custom applications in consultation with the customer. “It is important to include as many employees from different levels within an organization in the process as possible, expressly including people in the field. After all, they have to work with it. Sometimes this meets with some resistance at first, but once a digital environment is in place, people don't want anything else. Of course, it takes time and requires the necessary effort from everyone, but companies that commit to digitization turn out to be more efficient and profitable.”
