Dexter + Chaney Integrates BMG Seltec’s Site Automation Truck Ticketing Software Into Its Forefront® Construction Management Software

Integration provides seamless quoting-to-invoicing system for aggregate and asphalt suppliers and construction companies

SEATTLE, April 5, 2005: Dexter + Chaney has integrated BMG Seltec’s Site Automation truck ticketing software into its Forefront® Construction Management Software, giving aggregate and asphalt suppliers and construction companies a seamless quoting-to-invoicing system. Information obtained about jobs, materials and customers is entered only once into the system, where it resides in a single location for invoicing and other purposes. Information flows automatically between Forefront and BMG Seltec’s applications.

Integration of BMG Seltec with Forefront creates a single, continuous process that eliminates multiple steps between quoting, ticketing and invoicing, thus increasing accuracy of customer billing, reducing frustration and enhancing job and company profitability. A single point of data entry into the system eliminates errors that typically result from multiple entry of the same data.

The integrated Forefront quote-to-ticketing-to-billing system replaces a familiar scenario: information entered at the main office is faxed to the scale house, where it’s entered a second time into the system. Office staff also has to match information on paper tickets to the appropriate customers for billing.

“The Forefront user—and his customer—can have complete confidence in their billing,” said John Chaney, Dexter + Chaney co-founder and president. “That’s important from a customer-relations and revenue-generation standpoint, since inaccurate invoices are a direct loss of revenue.

“Without an integrated system, customers who are overbilled will complain, and the company has to devote time and effort to sift through paper to correct the invoice and re-send it. That causes an unnecessary delay in payments. Conversely, customers who are underbilled typically won’t say anything—resulting in a revenue loss to the company.

“Both scenarios hurt the company’s bottom line.”

Chaney explained that the integration of products made by Dexter + Chaney and BMG Seltec—two long-time suppliers to the aggregates and asphalt industry—resulted from customers’ desire for enhancements to their quoting-to-invoicing process.

“We’re excited about having our two products work closely together to provide so many significant benefits to aggregate and asphalt suppliers,” he said.
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About BMG Seltec
BMG Seltec is a leading provider of site automation plant controls for asphalt batch and drum plants, point-of-sale ticketing systems, silo loadout, dispatching and operations software all tailored exclusively for producers of concrete, aggregates and asphalt.

For more information, contact BMG Seltec, 222 Mountain Vista Parkway, Livermore, CA 94551; 925-373-3200; fax: 925-373-3250; sales@bmgseltec.com; www.bmgseltec.com.

About Dexter + Chaney
More than 1,000 construction companies throughout the United States use Dexter + Chaney’s Forefront Construction Management Software. Forefront includes 30 integrated modules that handle accounting, jobs, project management, human resources, document imaging, remote connectivity and data sharing. Companies that use Forefront report they have improved profitability and have grown their businesses more than 300 percent without adding accounting staff.

Forefront placed first overall in the Job Costing/Accounting/Payroll Applications category of the Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA) 2004 Information Technology Survey for the Construction Industry, fifth edition. More than 3,500 total users make use of Forefront’s Document Imaging component, which addresses a typically painful problem for contracting firms: giving management, office staff and project managers the fast access they need to important documents like AP invoices, change orders, payroll timecards, contracts and others.

For more information about Dexter + Chaney or Forefront, contact Brad Mathews, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Dexter + Chaney, 9700 Lake City Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115-2347; phone: 800-875-1400 or 206-364-1400; fax: 206-367-9613; e-mail: info@dexterchaney.com; www.dexterchaney.com.

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