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Analyst Reviews

Advanced Projects (with Microsoft Dynamics AX) scores top competitor ratings in TEC's analysis of the product

"Adeaca's Advanced Projects product clearly illustrated why they are a significant competitor in the PPM space. All functional areas are above the industry average, with many being dominant."

Read the full analyst report from TEC here: Advanced Projects TEC analyst report.pdf

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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. 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.

Has evaluating the profitability of new projects while quickly and effectively delivering on your existing project portfolio become a project in itself?

We hear you. Staying ahead of your competition and providing a superior product, all while reducing supply chain costs and start up times, remains a huge challenge, particularly as your competition is doing the same. Poorly managed resources and budgets can turn what appeared to be profitable projects into a string of unfulfilled client expectations, cost overruns, and cancelled contracts.

Rather than just another project accounting system you need a fully integrated project management solution to start spending more time managing and less time administering your projects.

Extending the horizontal ERP capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics AX, Advanced Projects® PME is a complete project ERP solution proven to improve performance in organizations like yours.

Advanced Projects® PME will help you with:

  • Consolidate all critical business processes into a single integrated application
  • Significantly reduce risk across your organization
  • Optimize manpower and equipment and increase utilization
  • Facilitate collaboration across organizations and with vendors and suppliers
  • Create consistency in your bidding and quoting processes
  • Accurately predict budget variance and financial performance of your complete project portfolio
  • More accurately manage costs and maintain a lean inventory

Project Life Cycle Management

Advanced Projects PME is designed for project driven; manufacturing, service and engineering companies, that are faced with the challenging task of managing large and complex projects, often with a low degree of project repeatability.

At its core the project management task can be summarized by five critical project components; time, costs & budgets, materials, resources and deliverables. 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
  • Subcontract tender
  • 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 
  • Subcontract 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 

Extending the horizontal ERP capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics AX, Advanced Projects PME is a one-stop solution that will improve operational efficiency, reduce IT costs and increase your customer satisfaction level as well as the bottom line.

Capabilities by functional area

Advanced Projects® PME with Microsoft Dynamics AX provides a complete project ERP solution that delivers best in class capabilities focused on the following project disciplines:

Project management

  • Project quotation and pipeline management
  • Rich work breakdown structure (WBS)
  • Constraint based and drag and drop scheduling
  • Finite and infinite project scheduling
  • Inter-company scheduling
  • Rich Gantt chart
  • Milestone management, gateway review and risk management
  • Issue management

Project resource management

  • Capacity and capacity constraint management
  • Skill and availability based resource selection
  •  Resource loan management (inter-company and inter-department resource sharing)
  • Track and monitor resource overload and scheduled delays
  • Performance analysis by RBS (Resource breakdown structure)

Project costing

  • Formula based estimation
  • Change order management and budget revisions/transfers
  • Extensive WBS driven cost and variance analysis via cost breakdown structure
  • Cost to complete

Project subcontract management

  • Subcontract RFQ process
  • Subcontract change order management
  • Payment request process
  • Compliance and submittals control
  • Transfer subcontract to project quote/change order budget

 

Project & portfolio analytics

  • Earned Value Management
  • Sensor Point™ analysis (Operational project KPIs)
  • Cash-flow analysis
  • Portfolio resource optimization
  • “What if” simulation scheduling
  • Project portfolio business dashboard
  • Project breakdown structure analytics 

Project workflow

  • Project progress tracking
  • Completed work computation
  • Delayed task start/completion notification
  • Automatic resource notification of pending work

Project collaboration

  • Workflow approvals
  • Task status and remaining work reporting
  • Task exception management
  • Web based timesheet
  • Task issue logging from timesheet and web portal
  • Web based issue tracking 

Project billing

  • Milestone billing with invoice notification based on payment milestone completion
  • Progress billing (completed work/budget consumption)
  • AR retention

Project supply chain

  • Material constraint management
  • Project driven MRP