Case Study: Morrison Homes achieves mobile, paperless VPO automation with BuilderMT BPM

Homebuilder Brings Wireless Business Process Automation to the Construction Site with BlackBerry Solution

Morrison Homes, a mid-size high-end homebuilder in Calgary, struggled with an inefficient, paper-based variance purchase order (VPO) process: site supervisors filled out forms and drove to the office, staff faxed and re-entered data, and the company averaged 19 minutes per VPO across about 5,000 VPOs a year. The manual workflow drove up administrative costs and delays, so Morrison needed a way for supervisors to initiate VPOs from the field using their existing BlackBerry smartphones.

Morrison deployed BuilderMT’s BPM with their BlackBerry solution to create a web-based VPO form accessible on smartphones, automating notifications to subcontractors, pricing capture, approval routing, PDF POs, and accounting imports. The result was a mostly paperless process that boosted supervisor productivity, improved subcontractor relationships, cut office workload, and delivered a full return on the $30,000 investment within weeks—while enabling further automation plans.

Morrison Homes

Philip Robichaud

Information Technology Manager