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Hello,
Welcome to USGN’s September Newsletter. We are committed to bringing you new, fresh information each month that will be of value to your company. For this month's newsletter I spoke with Greg Gill who is the Senior Vice President of Development at LA Fitness.
Greg and his team have been using the USGN platform for more than 12 years for developing new fitness clubs across the US and in Canada. Each month, approximately 350 unique users log in to collaborate on any number of projects. In total, there have been over 4,000 users who have logged in to the site, including employees of LA Fitness and a wide range of vendors, contractors, architects and service providers.
Users access the latest set of working drawings and specifications, bid on new projects, track schedules, view key reports, RFI’s, process approvals and access personalized dashboards. LA Fitness also manages vendor invoices and other financial aspects of projects on USGN.
All of this information runs through a robust back-end database that generates cross-project logs and reports so that multiple projects are managed seamlessly and effortlessly.
Kindly,
Doug Sperr
USGN Founder & CEO
www.usgn.net
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"One of the advantages of USGN is the culture that they have created where customers readily share solutions and help each other improve their work product. This sharing of information and solutions has been invaluable to LA Fitness." said Greg Gill, Development Manager at LA Fitness.
USGN Founder & CEO, Doug Sperr, spoke to Greg Gill, Development Manager for LA Fitness about their extensive use of the USGN product
Q. How valuable is it to LA Fitness to have one place for everything?
A. It's invaluable. A quick example is how we ready our purchase projects for sale. There is always a rush to get the due diligence information to the buyer.
With OPM there are no bulky files to send off any more...we merely give purchasers access to the project or send them a seamless link to the Due Diligence folder that houses all the information they need. Back in the day it was quite a chore to round up all the paper and send it off. Now we can do in 5 minutes what used to take many days to accomplish.
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Knowing where you stand across multiple projects at any given time and ensuring that your financial process flows smoothly can make the difference for successful project roll-outs. USGN’s effective and easily customizable workflow management provides for better control of your project spend and allows you to stay within your budget. USGN can be used to manage your processes for submitting and approving budgets, pay applications, change orders, purchase orders, and invoices.
Using USGN’s robust and flexible workflow tool you can:
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Reduce budget and payment cycle time
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Eliminate spreadsheets
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Implement approval thresholds that can vary by category
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Use sequential or parallel multi-tier approvals depending on the situation
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Know the status of pay apps, CO’s, PO’s, and invoices via reports, notifications, and dashboards
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Understand the impact of requested change orders and make sure that the appropriate people are aware of and/or approve the requested increases
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Easily modify your processes as your business grows
In addition, upon completion of the approval process, approved invoices and pay apps can be automatically uploaded to your Accounts Payable solution for final payment.
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Time is Running Out! Be Sure to Register Today!
You won't want to miss this conference!
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We have exciting agendas for our conferences that include case studies, new tools and capabilities, and hands on opportunities to see how mobile devices can be used as part of your USGN solution.
Tuesday, October 4 - Ft Lauderdale
Hosted by AutoNation
200 Southwest 1st Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Thursday, October 6 - Milwaukee
Hosted by Berengaria Development
301 N Broadway St, Suite 300
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Wednesday, October 19 - Irvine
Hosted by LA Fitness
3161 Michelson Drive, Suite 600
Irvine, CA 92619
Wednesday, October 26 - Phoenix
Hosted by USGN
1430 E Missouri Ave, Suite 269
Phoenix, AZ 85014
Conferences will run from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM, local time for each region.
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Sneak
Peak to the all new
2016 User Conference Agenda
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Agenda Topics will include:
- New applications and uses of USGN
- User interface updates
- New tools and functionality
- Mobile devices and finger signature
- Reporting updates
- Using USGN in the field
- Real Estate and Lease Management
- Roundtable discussion and suggestions for 2017 focus
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Our next webinar will be in November as to not conflict with the October regional user conferences.
Please join us on Wednesday,
November 16 at 10:00 AM PT (1:00 PM ET)
Topic Preview: Grid View Update
We will show you the latest enhancements to Grid View and using this tool to view your information both within a single project and across multiple projects. Grid View enables you to easily sort and filter data. Older USGN customers will be interested in learning how to replace current log views with this new tool. All customers will learn how to easily set up grid views.
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- Would you like to be interviewed for our next newsletter?
- Do you have a client referral?
- What topics would you like to see in future newsletters?
- Send us feedback or suggestions.
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The USGN team is always at your service. Contact us anytime to see USGN in action.
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