Place & Finish + Manpower · Productivity

Manpower productivity, job by job: man-hours per yard, actual vs. the rate you bid.

The pour side knows the yards. The crew side knows who stood on them. Put them together and you get the one number that tells you whether a job made money on labor — man-hours per cubic yard, actual against the rate you bid.

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The P&F Analytics page — month KPIs, the cross-hub Labor Productivity table with over/under-bid chips, and yards by project and crew.

Why it matters

Labor is where a concrete job is won or lost.

Materials are mostly fixed; labor is where the margin moves. If you can’t see man-hours per yard until the job’s closed out, you find out too late to fix the next one. The guide to manpower productivity for concrete crews covers the formulas and the planning ranges; this page is where the number computes itself.

Real hours, not guesses

Logged hours feed the math — by job and by man.

The man-hours come from the Time tab of the manpower tracker — the timesheet your foremen already fill out — rolled up by project and by employee, with overtime split out. Logged hours drive the real number; a standard workday only fills the days nobody logged.

The yards roll up on the pour board the same way, so the productivity number builds itself — no spreadsheet reconciliation.

Manhours analytics — logged hours rolled up by project and by employee, with OT split out.

Configurable

MH/CY or MD/CY — measure it your way.

Track man-hours per cubic yard or man-days per cubic yard, whichever your shop bids in. Enter the bid once in MH/CY; the man-day view converts it through your standard workday.

The Labor Productivity table flipped to MD/CY — man-days per cubic yard against the bid, same jobs, your metric.

Labor productivity — common questions

How does it calculate man-hours per cubic yard?

The pour side knows the yards; the crew side knows the hours that stood on them. Planning Ops combines the two — man-hours divided by cubic yards — per job, so you see actual productivity, not an estimate.

Can I compare it to my bid?

Yes — that is the point. Set the rate you bid in MH/CY (the MD/CY view converts it through your workday) and the actual lands next to it, job by job, so you see where you beat the bid and where you bled hours.

Is manpower productivity the same as labor productivity?

Same idea, two names — the labor a unit of work costs. Concrete subs usually measure it as man-hours per cubic yard (or man-days per CY), and that’s how Planning Ops tracks it: actual manpower productivity per job, next to the rate you bid.

Do I need Place & Finish and Manpower for this?

It needs both, because it joins yards from Place & Finish with hours from Manpower — all part of your one subscription.

See which jobs actually made money on labor.

Join your yards and your hours and read man-hours per cubic yard against your bid.

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