Trade margin controls.
Recovering gross margin through daily labor, change-order, and supplier controls.
The constraint
Gross margin had fallen from 16% to 7% through untracked overtime, loose material ordering, and unbilled job-site scope changes.
What changed
- Established daily labor tracking against project budgets.
- Built mobile change-order sign-off before extra work.
- Renegotiated core consumable pricing with suppliers.
Result
Project controls became visible to supervisors and scope changes became billable before execution.
14.2%gross margin restored
$175kchange orders captured
29%less overtime