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The Advanced Projects® PME solutions delivers best in class capabilities focused on the following project disciplines:

Project Management 
Project Resource Management
Project Billing
Project Costing
Project & Portfolio Analytics
Project
Collaboration
Project Workflow Management
Project Supply Chain

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Complete Project ERP Solution 

The world is shrinking. New markets are opening to you every day, but your competition is ready to jump as well. To remain competitive you need to quickly bring your solutions to market while improving productivity across your supply chain. Unfortunately this often means that engineering is still designing as the machine is being built. Ensuring the right resources and materials are available at the right time and place, across all of your projects, is key to your ongoing success. Advanced Projects® PME for Microsoft Dynamics AX is specially designed to help you overcome these challenges and promote an efficient and results driven organization.

Has managing your portfolio of configured or made to order products become a project in itself?

We hear you. Accounting for every detail of a project from design through manufacturing remains a huge challenge, particularly as projects become more complex. Poorly managed resources and budgets can turn what appeared to be profitable projects into a string of unfulfilled client expectations, cost overruns, and less than anticipated profit margin on the books. Delivering a complete and effective solution to your clients is the key to your business and if it isn’t delivered effectively, your profitability suffers. Not to mention the impact to your ability to sell post-delivery services and build a referral client base.

You need a way to ensure your engineering resources aren’t caught up in the sales process, manufacturing has complete specs before production, and a delay in one project isn’t going to affect your entire pipeline. Rather than just another project accounting system you are looking for a fully integrated project management solution to allow more time managing and less time administering your projects. Extending the horizontal ERP capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics AX, Advanced Projects® PME is a one-stop solution that will improve operational efficiency, reduce technology costs and increase your successful delivery rate as well as your bottom line.

Advanced Projects® PME will help you:

  • Effectively evaluate the profitability of projects in the sales phase and maintain that profitability through planning, design, and manufacturing
  • Gain visibility to your project pipeline and weigh different options for resource allocation before you start
  • Quickly respond to scope changes or customer demands, and see how those changes impact your other projects
  • Ensure equipment and resources are utilized effectively across a portfolio of projects, when you need them
  • Improve post-delivery service opportunities by delivering your product on time and within budget more often
  • Provide a clear real time view of your progress against orders across your complete project portfolio
  • Enable close collaboration between your resources and supply chain, no matter where in the world they are based
  • Improve the quality of your results and compliance with industry and governmental regulations

Project Life Cycle Support

With full project life cycle support Advanced Projects® PME provides a single consolidated solution that enables you to effectively manage all critical project components, operational as well as administrative.

  • Template quotations
  • Formula based templates
  • Delivery projection
  • Cost, margin & cash flow analysis
  • Pipeline management
  • Soft and hard capacity reservations
  • Project activity scheduling
  • Flexible resourcing
  • Inter-company and inter-department resource loan
  • Material planning
  • Critical path, delay and overload analytics
  • Simulation scheduling 
  • Change order management
  • Scheduling and capacity management
  • Project workflow
  • Estimate to complete
  • Material constraint management
  • Milestone & deadline management 
  • Retention & pay when paid
  • Progress billing
  • Milestone billing
  • Time sheet
  • WIP and revenue recognition
  • Inter-company project accounting 
  • Project portfolio analytics
  • Earned value management
  • Budget overrun notifications
  • Project breakdown structure
  • Project sensor point status
  • Resource breakdown structure
  • Approval workflows
  • Cost breakdown structure
  • Risk and issue management 

Learn About the Value

Advanced Projects® PME helps companies generate more business with fewer resources. Experience tells us that our customers are able to improve their cost efficiency by an average of 2%-10% by delivering more projects on time and within budget and maintaining a high and balanced resource utilization.

Read more about how we get to these numbers here: Making the case for Advanced Projects® PME.

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