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Serving central Pennsylvania since 1999 with a primary
focus on paving, Mid-State Paving & Excavation has
experienced steady growth and has expanded its service
offerings to include site work as well.
Steven Pope joined Mid-State Paving in 2009 as the company's
Administrative Manager. Throughout his 25-year career in construction
accounting, he has seen tremendous changes in the industry, including,
most recently, increased competition, eliminated jobs, and tighter
bidding. In response to these market conditions, Pope has found that
the larger companies are bidding on much smaller jobs than in the past
and workers that have been laid off are starting their own businesses
and picking up the smaller work. The result – Mid-State has had to
expand its services and re-evaluate its operations to remain a leader in
its region.
Time-intensive and Error-prone Processes
This $3 million company, which employs approximately 40 people
in the office and field at peak production times, was using a popular
generic accounting package along with a separate payroll system, plus
ProContractor™ by Viewpoint for estimating.
With a combination of software applications and spreadsheets, Mid-
State was limited to tracking lump sum hours and wasting time by
reentering data in several places.
"We could look at week-by-week cumulative costs and compare them
to the original bid amount, but this process was time-consuming
and not real-time," explained Pope. "We were using QuickBooks for
accounting and felt it was very limited and less than what we needed,
and using Quantum for payroll was a nightmare. Our processes were
time-intensive and prone to error. We needed a more powerful solution
that could provide job cost tracking from the estimate through the
project management process and billing; as well as more efficient
payroll and better control."
Mid-State Paving & Excavation
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Headquarters:
Paxtonville, Pennsylvania
2991 Paxtonville Rd.
Paxtonville, PA 17861
570.837.5251
