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begin the project, with a clear baseline for measuring project margins, results, and profitability.
successful projects, especially large projects that involve a wide range of dependencies. Construction businesses in particular rely on robust processes, supported by specialized technology, to define scope and manage projects from initial bid to project completion. That said, your most valuable asset is your people. Across the business, individuals and teams need fast, easy ways to share information and collaborate in a multidisciplinary environment. Think about it. Engineering teams need to provide a clear overall architecture. Project management needs to control cost, billing, and planning. Teams in the field need to provide feedback about the actual status of the project and consumption of resources. Civil Engineering & Construction enables you to streamline processes; give all project stakeholders deep visibility into centralized, real-time information; and fuel collaboration that leads to winning results.
Control compliance
To meet environmental, governmental, and industrial compliance regulations, construction businesses must implement rules and best practices for myriad day-to-day processes. Your business needs to adhere to environmental specifications for materials, manage construction and job-site waste, and determine costs. Civil Engineering & Construction delivers compliance controlsincluding workflows, guidelines, and checkliststo help you factor compliance costs into your bids, enforce processes, and meet projections. Document management capabilities are embedded in the operational process to help ensure you meet compliance expectations and manage processes efficiently.
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For example, when a foreman reports slower progress then planned, the system triggers an alert and notifies the project manager by e-mail. As soon as the project manager receives the notification, discussions start about how to correct and control the situation. This can lead into variation orders or replanning of activities to safeguard the project result and margin. The project manager can then make an informed decision based on expert collaboration.
Youll have direct insight into critical processes, including bids, project development and execution, equipment management, and financial status. The intuitive interface empowers employees to quickly access and work with the information and tools that are relevant to their role. Built-in business intelligence and personalized dashboards make it easy to view high-level overviews and quickly drill down into detailsall within the same window. Across the enterprise, stakeholders are equipped with the business insight and intelligence they need to effectively manage the rhythm of your business.
top-down, data-driven insight into business status and every aspect of each project. In addition to workflows, eventtriggered alerts and e-mail notifications, and key performance indicators (KPIs), the reporting framework included in Microsoft Dynamics AX enables you to quickly consolidate, analyze, and share information to help fuel your growth.
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For example, imagine that you can read your vehicle information and plan preventative maintenance plans based on that data. Or integrate processes and data flow with your subcontractors to align activities that meet your customers expectations. Think about sharing data from field-based teams to maximize collaboration with engineers. These are just a few examples showing how integrating data strengthens work in process and helps you meet longer-term goals for connecting your business.
can manage and synchronize critical details such as cost rates, materials, equipment, health and safety standards, and resource allocation. For example, your sales teams can create bids by using the latest cost price data. Your planning department can plan the best people for each job, determine their availability, and reassign team members if necessary. The planning department can also allocate the equipment needed for each job. Integrated material planning helps prevent or plan for delays in the management of construction materials or avoid inappropriate scheduling of materials.
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both accurate and competitive. With Civil Engineering & Construction, you can efficiently estimate projects and build competitive quotes that can drive new business, using data from business templates or project actuals.
business, To-Increase has added this dimension to the transaction data included in the Project Series in Microsoft Dynamics AX. Estimating, planning, and execution processes include equipment management as an industry -specific capability. Equipment management functionality enables you to: Create outbound equipment rental contracts for intercompany or other construction companies. Manage equipment maintenance, repair, and overhaul processes. Control enterprise-wide assets with integrated equipment and fixed asset management.
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Manage cost and revenue transactions for projects. Plan and dispatch equipment on construction activities.
development that increases your total cost of ownership. Our motto? Keep it simple.
Data collected from the field includes: Health and safety (HSE) status Equipment usage data Labor costs Materials consumed Expenses
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About To-Increase
As a global ISV and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, To-Increase develops solutions for industry verticalsincluding manufacturing, retail, construction, warehouse, and professional services. Our portfolio for Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft Dynamics NAV includes end-to-end industry solutions, business integration
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