XBE

The best run on us.
XBE provides the broadest, deepest, and most ambitious solutions for the end-to-end optimization of horizontal construction.
People are surprised by the breadth and depth of our feature set. In our experience, unless you take things to that level, you just add cost and effort with a simplistic solution that has no material impact on your financial performance.
Recent Releases
XBE releases multiple new features per week. Here are some of the most recent.
2024-04-23
Introducing, Fast Lane: Your Shortcut to Everything
Production Planning & Scheduling
  • Segment-based planning with production measurement support
  • Material type quantities by segment
  • Weather and traffic integration
  • Truck count and schedule optimization
  • Self-service cancellation with notifications
  • Shift-level maximum tonnage per cycle
  • Custom material type hierarchies and mix designs
  • Multi-plant production plans based on daily job production plans
  • Flexible production unit of measure with automated conversion
  • Template, duplication, and crew importing functionality
  • Schedule locks to prevent unintentional movement
  • Project-level management
Lineup & Dispatch
  • Gradual lineup construction from approved plans
  • Flexible dispatch grouping as portions of lineup finalize
  • Simple truck reassignment and truck moves with integration time card management
  • Self-service automated dispatch fulfillment
  • Consolidated multi-customer lineup management
  • Large-lineup performance optimizations
  • Pre-dispatch rate previews
  • Bi-directional driver messaging
  • Integrated trucker report cards
Truck Tendering & Assignment
  • Flexible rate agreements
  • Broad support for service type units of measure (hour, ton, load, etc)
  • Flexible and automated fuel surcharge support
  • Automatic application of rates
  • Management of certification requirements (DBE, union, etc)
  • Auditable acceptance workflow
  • Robust driver and equipment profiles
  • Streamlined driver and equipment assignment
  • Optional driver rate visibility (for self and managed others)
  • Configurable notifications
Arrival Management
  • Shift start time and location change notifications
  • Automated driver day parking site start times
  • Automated and manual check-in with geolocation verification
  • Estimated times of arrival
  • Configurable shift reminder notifications
  • Check-in dashboard with exception highlighting
  • Job "on hold" with automated notifications
  • Material site check-in monitoring dashboard
E-Ticketing
  • Live feed of electronic tickets from any source system/process
  • Truck arrival estimates and GPS-based arrival time automation
  • Owner access with multiple user accounts and job-level assignments
  • Optional inspection notes, acceptance, and rejection
  • Customer- and job-level data access configurability
  • CSV and Excel exports
  • Ticket "image" rendering and export
  • Offline-mode for ticket viewing and inspection when disconnected
Project Profitability Tracking & Forecasting
  • Separate bid, forecast, and possible estimates
  • Formally estimated pay item quantities
  • Seamlessly transition from estimating to project management
  • Capture actual revenue and cost quantities and prices
  • Automated pay item quantity percent completion (WIP) estimation
  • Uncertainty expressed estimated quantities and prices
  • Update forecast based on actuals
  • Income statement generated for each job production plan
  • Distinguish operational gain/fade analysis from bid estimate error analysis
  • Fully integrated with other XBE features
Crew & Equipment Management
  • User credential management
  • Labor requirements and rosters
  • Equipment requirements and rosters
  • Labor assignments
  • Equipment assignments with consolidated reporting
  • Calendar view with drag-and-drop rescheduling
  • Overlapping assignment management
  • Integration with job-related notifications
  • Lowboy equipment movement requirement reporting
  • Labor and equipment time sheets with code code allocations
  • Equipment rental management
Production Monitoring & Management
  • Real-time integration with scale ticketing systems
  • Live monitoring of production rate and cycle-times vs plan
  • Live monitoring of truck locations
  • Manual paper ticket upload
  • One-click self-ticketing for material sites without scales
  • Production incident detection
  • Automated overloading incident creation
  • Tonnage alarms including progress vs. plan
  • Targetable broadcast messaging
  • Ad-hoc job notification subscriptions
  • Manual and automated shift feedback
  • Truck cut-off timing calculation automation
Continuous Improvement Management
  • Production, efficiency, administrative, and safety incident support
  • Integrated root cause analysis with incident comments
  • Collaborative action item management
  • Incident calendar view and plan navigation
  • Action item-based XBE feature collaboration
  • Default incident assignees by kind
  • Incident notification subscriptions by kind
  • Meeting management and recording
  • Culture values communication
  • Open door issue submission and management
Trucking Time Card Management
  • Field-based pre-approval process
  • Stuck Truck Watch: Automated "out of order" incident creation
  • Integration with production incidents for downtime estimation
  • Optional driver-led submission workflows
  • Time padding analysis and prevention
  • Cost code allocation
  • Paperless and legacy ticket imaging support
  • Efficient management of user-generated time cards
  • Driver time sheets for company payroll
  • One-click creation of time cards quantified by material transactions
Invoicing & Payment
  • Customer and trucker invoicing support
  • Configurable and automated self-billing
  • Automated bookkeeping and integration with financial systems
  • Payment alerts and visibility
  • Spend classification reporting (DBE, MBE, etc)
  • Notifications and reporting on shifts missing paperwork
Reporting & Analysis
  • Job-level effectiveness and efficiency analytics
  • On-time starts dashboard
  • Lane monitoring and analysis
  • Driver day utilization analytics
  • Daily contractor dashboard for crew and trucking performance
  • Historic contractor volume analysis
  • Historic and live material site productivity analysis
  • GPS-based driver movement and cycle time analysis
  • Shift scorecard with dozens of automated metrics
  • Automated trucking report cards
  • Trucking surplus estimation and scorecards
  • Daily job production plan recap emails
Safety Management
  • Inegrated safety risk assessment and planning
  • Automated safety risk suggestions
  • Automated safety meeting creation
  • Automated safety risk communication suggestions
  • Safety incident management, including good catches and near misses
  • Safety incident reporting
Robust Technology
The XBE platform is architected to support all types of usage, by people and machines, and works equally well in all environments.
Mobile and desktop optimized
The entire XBE platform is designed to work equally well in mobile and desktop environments to enable all stakeholders to collaborate in whatever environment they find themselves in.
Web, iOS, and Android
XBE is available on any modern web browser, and is also packaged as a native application for iOS and Android to enable extra features that require access to device sensors. Updated native applications are released weekly (on average).
Robust API and integration options
All XBE features are exposed via a well-documented and tested API to enable all types of integrations and ensure data portability. XBE manages point of sale integrations with many systems including Apex, Connex, Astec WM2000, Systems Equipment, BSLight, Libra, Digital Forces, Trux, FastWeigh, Command Batch, and various custom file formats and databases. In addition, XBE integrates with many financial systems including Vista by Viewpoint, Spectrum by Dexter + Chaney, OnBase by Hyland, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Sage Intacct, and various custom file formats. XBE also integrates with various telematics providers including Samsara, KeepTruckin, and Digital Fleet.