A Fresh Blend: Boyd Coffee and FastTrack Schedule

Coffee manufacturer uses FastTrack Schedule to manage business expansion

One hundred years of providing service to the Pacific Northwest makes Boyd Coffee Company coffee experts. But it’s FastTrack Schedule that makes them project management experts. After a period of recent growth, the family-owned coffee company needed a project scheduler to help them manage their third major expansion.

Up and Running, Quickly

The company's growth called for the expansion of its Portland, Oregon headquarters to accommodate growing manufacturing departments. Construction for the additional 132,000 sq. feet of warehouse space was kept on track using FastTrack Schedule.

"We just loaded the software and began adding data. The project was scheduled within hours of receiving data from all of the contractors,” says John Gillam, Vice President of Manufacturing.

According to Gillam, FastTrack Schedule was beneficial for providing a schedule to measure the performance of contractors. FastTrack Schedule is also being utilized for its cost tracking ability – the next five years of capital expenses are already laid out.

Project Schedules to Go

“Having field accessibility via the Palm Pilot will, in my opinion, provide the greatest benefit. Although the project is just beginning, FastTrack Schedule is turning out to be beneficial in keeping communications up to date with all involved.”

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