Case Study: The Bennie Group Improves Business Processes with Multiple Causeway Solutions

Bennie utilises multiple Causeway products across its lines of business.

Telematic Tracking for Fleet Management

Causeway Telematics allows Bennie to harness live location data for the advanced telematic tracking of vehicles and personnel to improve fleet management, safeguard workers, and protect valuable assets. Information provided by Telematics allows Bennie to ensure their fleet is deployed to maximum effect and to make informed decisions on fleet replacement and reallocation.

An Industry-leading Estimating Solution

Causeway’s enterprise-level estimating solution was implemented to replace another solution that was failing to meet the needs of a rapidly-growing business. Causeway Estimating improves accuracy and reduces costs across the tender process, allowing Bennie to improve profitability.

A Robust, Cloud-based e-Invoicing Platform

Tradex is the UK construction industry’s largest connected supply chain and e-invoicing network. With over 180,000 companies on the platform, many of Bennie’s suppliers were already enrolled, and those who weren’t, were onboarded quickly.

“Tradex enables us to invoice simply and easily with the knowledge that there is a defined technology process. Invoices are not lost; any queries are flagged automatically for resolution, and there is a complete audit trail.”

Matthew Ayres, Group Managing Director, Bennie

Tradex eliminates inefficiencies associated with manual data entry and reduces supplier payment queries and manual invoice statement reconciliations, improving invoice straight-through processing rates.

Advanced Biometric Labour Management Technology

The Causeway Donseed biometric labour management solution provides Bennie with the workforce data that they require in real time. With Donseed, the company is able to record accurate site attendance details, minimise exposure to health and safety risks, and establish cost controls.

By using multiple Causeway solutions, Bennie has been able to see many benefits to its lines of business.

“We wanted to be supported by a software vendor that embraced a more modern approach to software support and customer engagement. Causeway is not just a software provider—they’ve become a partner.”

Matthew Ayres, Group Managing Director, Bennie

Improved Productivity

With Causeway Estimating, Bennie has seen dramatic improvements in the efficiency and productivity of their estimating teams. Features such as multi-user access, secure data storage, and access to previous estimates make it easy to avoid repetitive tasks and to free up more time for value-add activities.

Stronger Partnerships

Leveraging the Tradex e-invoicing solution, Bennie’s customers are able to process their invoices more quickly. Automated rules are in place to perform checks on invoices and avoid much of the manual work that was required to get invoices processed in the system. Bennie has seen that there has been great appeal to the suppliers regarding use of the platform, and the company is having more conversations than before with its supply chain. The centralised accounting system has also streamlined financial processes that were previously siloed.

Better Fleet Management

Telematics allows Bennie to manage their commercial vehicle fleet more effectively, allowing for reduced fuel and insurance costs, faster response times, and better customer service. Plus, the data captured allows Bennie—and its insurers—to ensure that all drivers are abiding by company policies and rules.

Increased Labour Cost Savings

Using Causeway’s Donseed biometric labour management solution, Bennie is able to ensure that the data surrounding attendance on site is both accurate and secure. Donseed’s reporting functionality gives Bennie deep insight into the data, allowing the company to make more informed decisions where needed and to be more proactive in their management of the workforce. In real-time, Bennie know who is on what site at what time.