Industrial Project Management
ERP software to help manufacturers manage large and complex production projects
Manufacturers within the industrial equipment and machine building industry need additional software functionalities in their ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system to suit their needs, particularly on large builds with multiple project milestones that can stretch over long periods of time.
We understand that with high value and high cost manufacturing projects, your team needs tools that will track cash-flow, schedules, resource and equipment. If a critical deadline is missed along the way, it impacts your ability to deliver, so visibility is key.
Industrial Project Management is a full end-to-end ERP solution based on standard Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management software functionality to meet these needs; connecting project and production in multiple ways.
The solution is available as either Essentials or Advanced, (both on the cloud or on-premise implementation), depending on your functional needs.
Manage large and complex production projects, to boost productivity, efficiency and best practice in your business
BENEFITS – Industrial Project Management ERP
Increased Project Efficiencies
Financially and operationally it is important to have the business tools to run high-value manufacturing projects, that can track cash-flow, time schedules, resource and equipment. Stop switching between apps, screens or separate reports to track projects and cost in your ERP.
Accelerate Go-To-Market
When businesses connect operations and adopt best practice in product and project management, you will respond to the needs of customers in a more agile and proactive way.By moving your ERP to the cloud, this is optimized further.
Optimized Supply Chain Management
By integrating your partners and suppliers deeper within your manufacturing operations, your team becomes more proactive, resource is optimized, communication is improved, barriers are removed and go to market is quicker.
Boost Internal Productivity
The end to end ERP solution is used across the business, so all functional areas are improved with better collaboration, automation and control of repeated tasks plus deeper integration across teams.
CAPABILITIES – Industrial Project Management ERP
Visibility and Controls for Project Management
Helps project managers gain complete visibility by displaying all project based delivery data information and invoice tracking and can be worked on directly from the summary screen in the system.
Accuracy and Productivity for Project Quotation
Refines project quotations by allowing companies to set prices and discounts according to their needs.
Improves Project Resource Management
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) helps a project team to organize the work (hours, expenses, items consumption) over time.
Project Cash-Flow Visibility
Improves visibility of cash flow with Cash in/out functionality for projects.
Boosts Production Planning and Consumption Processes
Tightens the integration of your production processes and improves visibility with our Production Order Consolidation software feature.
Simplifies and Streamlines Item Management
Simplifies your BOM management with item versioning functionality.
Strengthens Quality Control Processes
Manages the product certification system for better controls in manufacturing businesses.
Boosts Production Planning and Consumption Processes
Includes a simple equipment maintenance system for less downtime and interruptions to production.
Automates Supplier Performance Management
Helps manage suppliers and their performance with automatic evaluation of your key criteria by business priority.
Features of Industrial Project Management ERP
The following Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management accelerators are included in the Essentials pack:
PO Quantity Allotment
Organizations who need flexibility in how they split purchase order requests, find it frustrating with too much manual intervention in repeatable and timed PO administration. The accelerator helps by saving distribution rules by vendor, creating automatic distribution in post-MRP processes, and allowing users to manually launch planned orders using the rules in place.
Item Life Cycle
The accelerator helps your enterprise to organize, control and simplify data input, plus generate traceability via an audit trail of all data modification and inputs.
Vendor Auto Evaluation
The manual entry of data in standard Dynamics 365 software to assess supplier performance will slow down productivity, the Vendor Auto Evaluation accelerator helps by automatically feeding relevant fields from operational transactions, to assess selected vendors’ performance based on multiple criteria directly in your system.
Purchase & Sales Optimization
This accelerator helps those manufacturers with conditional trade agreements with vendors (based on quantity, price and discount) who would like to have better visibility on quantities ordered to obtain a better price from suppliers. Plus if you have multiple warehouses and need to improve your inventory management; each warehouse can assist the other warehouses to resolve out-of-stock situations, via automated workflows to pick the best delivery warehouse (between warehouses or direct from vendor).
Industrial Project Management Workspace
This project dashboard brings together key KPIs needed for effective and efficient project management within one industrial manufacturing ERP; including cashflow, cost, project milestones, revenues and analytics. The Workspace allows you to easily track your manufacturing projects in one area.
Project Overview
Manufacturing Project Managers need to have a view across multiple areas of large production projects wherever they are based, quickly and easily to ensure resource, financial and delivery project KPIs are on track. This software helps by providing one single screen in your ERP surfacing key information such as billing rules in project contract, project deliveries: summary of item requirements and item forecasts, upcoming invoicing and current or late invoicing.
Production Order Consolidation
The accelerator helps manufacturers’ productivity and accuracy, by recovering grouping criteria when POs are created; attributes of the launched Product, attributes of the components of the Production Order BOM (if can be inherited from the BOM) and attributes of Production Order range lines.
Project Inventory Tracking
Manufacturers have multiple critical released products and the production process (with multiple levels) involves inheriting that Critical status on the component or sub-component, causing issues when drawing down for project consumption. The Project Inventory Tracking accelerator helps ensure that goods are reserved for the production project without complexity; by tracking projects and monitoring the impact on logistics, specific products to be purchased, related stock movements, and forecast orders, plus providing Project Managers with an analysis via a Power BI dashboard.
Item Versioning
The accelerator helps manufacturing businesses by centralizing escalation requests for item changes, providing a framework and process for version changes of released products and the ability to store tasks and allow notifications of changes throughout the organization.
Project Quotation
This accelerator alleviates the following challenges in using standard Microsoft Dynamics ERP functionality: The integration and subsequent transfer of project quotation information from the sales agreements and project modules is manually carried out; quotation establishment can only be done through the sales price and for services (hours, expenses); prices are set up in the Project module; items are retrieved from sales trade agreements, plus it isn’t possible to set a total or line discount when preparing quotes. This lack of integration and flexibility affects productivity and efficiency in managing the commercial side of projects.
Project WBS Management
Work Breakdown Structure is a best practice approach when organizing projects, particularly in large and complex industrial resource planning. This accelerator helps manufacturing companies manage tasks, priorities and resources; providing additional reporting for forecasting and planning; without the need for Project Managers to switch screens or input duplicate information.
Cash In Out
Achieve better cash flow visibility and cost control within your projects and sub-projects. The accelerator provides a projection of cash inputs and outputs on a project over time and to earn revenue with cash flow optimization.
First Article Inspection
Achieve quality standards throughout your product inspection cycles without productivity loss. The accelerator identifies the certification on the released product, with delay and type validation, blocks the process if the product certification is out of date and produces a list of out of date released products
What’s inside…
Project quotation functionality is boosted
Gantt order view for project planning
Project overview tabs from one screen
Control products with Item Life Cycle
Cash flow visibility with Cash In / Out
Production Order Consolidation
Industrial Project Management workspace
Project dashboard using Power BI
Why choose Prodware ?
We are ScoreFact certified on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management and a Microsoft Gold Partner.
As leaders in digital transformation, our approach as a trusted advisor for our SMB and enterprise clients helps you match leading technologies with business realities, to meet the challenges of your sector. We create sector-specific ERP and CRM software solutions to answer to your needs with best practice in mind.
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