How do you win your projects and meet client commitments in a highly competitive engineering and architecture consulting industry? How do you prevent your project from sliding into an unprofitable territory by an unexpected event when margins are tight enough as is? Yep, we hear you...
Ensuring the right resources and materials are available at the right time and place across all of your projects is an ongoing balancing act. A fully integrated project management software solution will give you a competitive advantage and help you to successfully navigate your project lifecycle so you can start spending more time managing and less time administering your projects.
Microsoft Dynamics AX for project based businesses is a one-stop solution that will improve operational efficiency, optimize your resources and scheduling, reduce infrastructure costs and increase your customer satisfaction level as well as your bottom line.
The upcoming AIA 2015 (http://convention.aia.org/event/homepage.aspx) convention this week in Atlanta will bring together thousands of architecture, engineering and design professionals and Ellipse Solutions will be there to share the ERP application specifically tailored for the needs of a project-based service organization. Let’s take a closer look at how Microsoft Dynamics AX can help your business...
Getting The Job
Winning the optimal projects is the 1st step on the road to profitable cash flows and jobs scoped for on time and on budget delivery. Microsoft Dynamics AX makes it easier than ever before.
Role-specific productivity gives each individual the tools and solutions allowing account managers to keep track of their leads, opportunities, and quotes, and letting project managers to control budgets, forecasts, costs, resources, purchase orders and invoices.
Workflows and cross-functional integration eliminates redundant communication and duplicate system entries. Team members no longer have to wade through information that doesn’t apply to them.
No need to enter the data multiple times. One source of truth for sales, accounting, procurement, human resources, and inventory information.
Clarity of status and role based responsibility and accountability streamlines collaboration between customers and service delivery management.
Team Management
Having trouble scheduling your resources and allocating them to a right project? Microsoft Dynamics AX will help you staff efficiently and provide a high degree of control over how you run your projects and manage your professional resources.
Competencies based scheduling automates resource assignment according to education, skills, certifications, and project experience.
Individual worker’s calendar and availability setup to match the project calendar.
Capacity review of each worker helps to determine how the resources are being used. For example, if a worker is being underutilized, he or she can be assigned to a project that fits better with their availability and capabilities.
Resource assignments in different units of time, such as day, week, or month.
Data is power. Real time data is wisdom.
Dynamics AX will allow you to manage your projects with both historical accuracy and vision to the future based on up-to-date project data.
The role centers provide vital metrics to effectively measure project progress including key performance indicators and earned value. The dashboards are customizable so everyone gets what they want when they want it.
Business Analyzer keeps project managers connected to the project on the go. At-a-glance KPI, reports and data can be found wherever you are.
True project cooperation is achieved through a collaboration workspace.
Plan with a higher degree of accuracy
Microsoft Dynamics AX is built to target profitability and customer satisfaction based on careful budget planning, timely procurement of required materials and realistic scheduling that minimizes the time between tasks and phases.
Work scheduling tools and work break down structures (WBS) allow projects managers to define templates that capture best practices and help to account for milestones, holidays or partial working days for a more effective scheduling
Using WBS driven estimates project managers can build alternate forecasts from the ground up, which can be used to build a budget. A budget can then be formalized by leveraging standard approval workflow infrastructure and future revisions can be tracked and maintained.
Full integration with Inventory and Supply Chain Management allows for planning and facilitation of a timely procurement. Project managers can create material requirements and take advantage of robust procurement functions for requisitioning, requests for quote, inventory costing and more.
Don’t guesstimate!
Project Accounting in Microsoft Dynamics AX is the foundation that helps your company to effectively run the entire organization with full financial overview and real time integration into supply chain management and financial modules. It comes with tighter controls of your projects and advanced cash flow management.
The accounting needs of time and materials, fixed price, grants-based as well as internal investment or cost and time projects are supported.
Day-to-day administrative financial tasks and anticipated potential delays are estimated and recorded.
Configurable invoices can be generated immediately based on worker hours and expenses as well as other fees and sellable items. Invoices can appear in the currency of your choice, to suit the needs of your customers and vendors in projects or sub-projects.
Customers and team members are updated with timely and accurate progress reports. If a customer’s requirements change throughout the course of a project, you can modify revenue by easily changing revenue-producing consumption to the project in progress or additional on account transactions.
Ellipse Solutions' team is excited to meet and mingle with architect and engineering crowd at AIA! Stop by our Booth # 3383 in Technology Pavilion to learn more about what Microsoft Dynamics AX can do for your project-based service organization.
For more information, visit our AX for Professional Services and AX for Architecture & Engineering Pages!
You can also contact us by email at info@Ellipsesolutions.com or call (937) 312-1547.
