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Project Series
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Dynamics-SL
Project Series
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Project
Controller |
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In this competitive marketplace, useful project
information from an integrated system is an
invaluable tool to help project managers gain
control over revenue and expenses – enough
control to make even low margin projects
profitable. Project Controller, the core module
of the Dynamics-SL
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Project Series, is designed with just this in mind – to provide project
managers with timely, accurate, and meaningful information needed for effective
project management.
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Project
Analyzer
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Project
managers say that easy access to information is critical for analyzing project
performance and profitability. Line managers and project accountants need the
same information – for multiple projects at a time.
The Dynamics-SL
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Analyzer module is designed to provide these levels of information, along with
the necessary tools to quickly collect, summarize, and present project data in
an intuitive and comprehensive format.
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Project
Budgeting
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Project
budgeting can be one of the most frustrating tasks in any business. Handle it
well, and you can make a discerning difference in your company’s profitability.
Lose control, and you may never know how much money is lost.
The Dynamics-SL
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Project Budgeting module can help keep you in control. It lets you track the
project budgeting process from budget creation to final approval. And through
the life of the project, you will be able to view the impact of change-orders
and revisions on the budget, with a complete audit trail of all changes made.
This control over budgets not only helps you to manage projects profitably, it
also assists in fine-tuning the bidding process for future bids. At project
completion, you will be able to compare your budget against actuals and measure
accuracy. No more wondering why you were the lowest bidder.
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Time
and Expense
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In many businesses, it is difficult to track
project profitability because labor costs can only be viewed after payroll has
been run. Worse yet, labor may be collected using systems that lack integration
with payroll, such as spreadsheets. These are cumbersome for employees to use;
data must be re-keyed over and over into separate systems to run payroll,
project reporting, and invoicing. This can adversely affect project
performance, analysis, and invoicing.
The
Dynamics-SL
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Time and Expense for Projects module is designed to make the most of your
project-driven business by streamlining the collection of labor and
project-related expenses. The various functions within this module are used by
employees and managers to capture, validate, track, review, approve, and post
labor, travel, and employee expenses to projects – and optionally, the General
Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Payroll for processing. Even employees working
away from the office can submit time and expenses via the Internet to a central
site for automated processing.
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Flexible
Billings
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If
yours is like many companies, too many resources are spent on creating,
editing, and approving invoices. This lengthens the billing cycle, puts a drag
on cash flow, and can cause customer service problems when data is not on hand
for answering sensitive billing questions.
Imagine a project system that would allow you to charge costs to projects,
allocate overhead, apply flexible billing and mark-up rules, and use multiple
billing methods, so invoice drafts can be automatically generated and posted to
Accounts Receivable and General Ledger when printed and approved.
And imagine that this system could empower project managers to review
drafts and edit and format them to customer specifications, online, without
ever having to re-key information.
There’s no need to imagine. The
Dynamics-SL
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Flexible Billings module is designed to do all of this, allowing you to control
and automate management of unbilled receivables and creation of invoices, so
you can shorten the billing cycle and improve cash flow.
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Contract
Manager
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Is
it difficult to keep track of contract information, project change-orders,
subcontracts, subcontract change-orders, paperwork, submittals, and other
events associated with contracts? When managing subcontractors, it is a
time-consuming chore to stay on top of compliance documents?
Moreover, do you have the
payment controls needed to efficiently handle
pay-when-paid subcontracts? Imagine a contract
management system that is an integral part of
the project and accounting systems. One that can
help you turn change-orders into billable work,
automate transmittals and submittals tracking,
and even link payment controls to compliance
documents for optimum cash flow and project
profitability. Dynamics-SL
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Contract Management is that system.
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Communicator
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A key to maintaining project control is
awareness. You need to be aware of project
approval requirements, cash flow shortfalls,
eroding margins, and more. The Dynamics-SL
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Communicator module keeps you informed of these and other critical project
aspects automatically – through the use of alerts.
Workflow-related and project-exception alerts allow you to manage your
project proactively, for the best possible results.
Alerts can be viewed in the system or sent via e-mail, so managers can
receive them in or out of the office. And they can be created to monitor any
project parameter based on your specific needs.
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Project
Estimator
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This
tool helps companies establish better individual practices – improved
estimates, better cost control and accurate financial management.
The Estimator Module provides a flexible interface for building and
analyzing your estimates. Its
hierarchical structure of headings, subheadings and activities can be defined
to meet your needs. You can
organize your jobs by phases, location, types of work or any other method you
like. This module is fully
integrated, and when a contract is won, the Estimator can automatically
generate a budget for the Project in the system.
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