Customer Story
TEP reaches new heights with Sitetracker
Tower Engineering Professionals (TEP) is a full service, multi-discipline, turnkey engineering and construction organization. TEP has over 750 employees across multiple states and specialize in telecommunications.
Approximately one-third of the Tower Engineering team are certified climbers and have worked on more than 50,000 cell towers around the globe.
TEP’s humble beginnings and work hard, play hard philosophy laid the foundation for an amazing culture. That culture, plus motivated people, and their investment in processes has helped them grow to be one of the top engineering design firms in the United States. With their areas of expertise ranging in everything from Environmental and Civil Divisions to Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing Engineering, Land Surveying, to a fully outfitted Geotechnical Lab, and the establishment of TEP Design and Build, TEP is truly a turnkey provider.
Challenge
Back in the day, TEP was a small, boutique engineering firm. “Like most engineering firms, we used Microsoft Excel, Access, and Quickbooks, and you use it until it renders itself useless,” said CEO and co-founder, Andy Haldane. “We were really looking for a solution that would help us continue to grow and advance in the industry.”
Since its acquisition by a private equity firm in 2014, TEP has acquired three more companies, specializing in site acquisition, fiber engineering, and construction, but they aren’t stopping there. Growth and M&A are on the horizon, and TEP knew that to scale in the future, they needed to be as operationally efficient as possible.
TEP tried a project management offering from their ERP and it failed. “We started the search for something more specific to the telecom world,” said Haldane.
Solution
Back in the day, TEP was a small, boutique engineering firm. “Like most engineering firms, we used Microsoft Excel, Access, and Quickbooks, and you use it until it renders itself useless,” said CEO and co-founder, Andy Haldane. “We were really looking for a solution that would help us continue to grow and advance in the industry.”
Since its acquisition by a private equity firm in 2014, TEP has acquired three more companies, specializing in site acquisition, fiber engineering, and construction, but they aren’t stopping there. Growth and M&A are on the horizon, and TEP knew that to scale in the future, they needed to be as operationally efficient as possible.
TEP tried a project management offering from their ERP and it failed. “We started the search for something more specific to the telecom world,” said Haldane.
The Results
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We have a Sitetracker dashboard with financials, sales, and projects,” Martin said. She continued, “every employee, from the new intern to the VP, can see the same dashboard, which motivates people to take ownership and buy into the success of the company because they can see that what they are doing is helping to move the needle.” “for me, the biggest benefit of Sitetracker was the employees’ visibility into revenue forecasts. It’s instantaneous. It wasn’t like we were waiting on our finance team to spit out a report after three or four weeks when, by that time, the data was stale.
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We have a Sitetracker dashboard with financials, sales, and projects,” Martin said. She continued, “every employee, from the new intern to the VP, can see the same dashboard, which motivates people to take ownership and buy into the success of the company because they can see that what they are doing is helping to move the needle.” “for me, the biggest benefit of Sitetracker was the employees’ visibility into revenue forecasts. It’s instantaneous. It wasn’t like we were waiting on our finance team to spit out a report after three or four weeks when, by that time, the data was stale.
Andy Haldane Title -
We have a Sitetracker dashboard with financials, sales, and projects,” Martin said. She continued, “every employee, from the new intern to the VP, can see the same dashboard, which motivates people to take ownership and buy into the success of the company because they can see that what they are doing is helping to move the needle.” “for me, the biggest benefit of Sitetracker was the employees’ visibility into revenue forecasts. It’s instantaneous. It wasn’t like we were waiting on our finance team to spit out a report after three or four weeks when, by that time, the data was stale.
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