Construction Projects: a Sea of Moving Parts

Computime proudly introduces Acumatica.

Construction projects are a sea of moving parts and our ability to complete projects on time and within budget depends entirely on the level of collaboration between your central office and your field staff.

Whether you self-perform or manage sub-contractors, you need access to accurate, timely project data so that you can make the strategic decisions that will move projects—and your business—forward. Unfortunately, running a business with disconnected project teams results in delayed project updates, duplicate data entry, greater risk of errors, and unnecessary costs.

With Acumatica’s true cloud construction software, you can easily manage your customers, finances—including job cost accounting—field and service teams in one cohesive solution. The bottom line is increased visibility, team collaboration, and profitability on every project.

 

Organisations in the construction industry navigate a multifaceted and complex business environment that traditional ERP platforms do not wholly serve. Acumatica allows you to grow and evolve your business with a scalable, secure, future-proof mobile cloud platform, an intuitive user interface, and native artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Acumatica’s all-in-one ERP platform connects every part of your business – from budgeting to project management, purchasing to inventory, and field service to customer management.

Automate change order and project issues and communicate with field staff, subcontractors, and vendors in real-time. Gain company-wide visibility of costs, budgets, projects, commitments, schedules, and contracts – allowing for tighter project controls and saving time and money. Modernise construction workflows with real-time task views and billing, compliance management and daily field reports.

Acumatica Cloud ERP provides the best business management solution for digitally resilient
companies. Built for mobile and telework scenarios and easily integrated with the collaboration tools of your choice, Acumatica delivers flexibility, efficiency, and continuity of operations to growing small and midmarket organisations.

 

Key Features

Financial Management
Robust financials are simple enough for smaller contractors, yet scalable for more complex needs. Acumatica Financial Management has standard financial processes (GL/AP/AR) and reports. Multicompany, multicurrency, intercompany accounting, fixed assets, recurring and deferred revenue, and cash management are also available.

Job Cost Accounting
Easily manage AP workflows, from entering an invoice through approval
routing and checks. Seamless customer billing, driven by real-time project costing, includes up-to-date labour, material, equipment, and other costs. Proactively identify problem areas in current jobs and improve future projects estimates.

Project Management
Gain a complete view of project details—including real-time field updates—providing instantaneous information between your project management team, back-office workforce, and management. Easily manage and track all activities, issues, changes, project documents, and job costs from one central area.

Commitments
Control cost overruns by automating project commitments and change order processes. Create and track subcontract status, purchase orders, budgets comparisons, line-item committed costs, and payments.

Compliance
Effectively manage lien waivers and releases, insurance certificates, and status updates, providing expiration and other alerts to staff and suppliers.

Customer Relationship Management
Easily see real-time data on all customer activities, including quotes, orders, invoices, payments, support cases, and service calls. Acumatica CRM also includes a self-service customer portal that lets customers access the information they need.

Mobile App
Get anytime, anywhere access. Quickly see critical reports on phones and tablets and give field teams and subcontractors tools to enter employee time and equipment details electronically. Access the complete system over any device and search for all project details from one global search box.

Advanced Material Management
Streamline the management of project materials, including receipts and issues for purchased materials.
Create requisitions with approvals workflow and create purchase orders to ship materials directly to a project location, creating an efficient workflow for job site deliveries.

Change Management
Control cost overruns by automating project commitments and change order processes. For example, manage back charges
or reduction in vendor commitments through the entry of a negative change order. Drop-ship workflows connected to change orders improve business workflows.

Progress Billing
Flexible progress billing by quantity like linear or square footage reduces project owner risk while allowing customers to meet their unique business needs.

Project Cost and Revenue Tax Zone
Simplify the process of calculating taxes for a project – tax zones are specified directly in the project and automatically retrieved and calculated
for all invoices, purchase orders, subcontracts and expenses.

Connect the Job Site and Office

The ability for employees and software to communicate effectively and efficiently between the office and job site is critical for the modern
construction business.

Acumatica’s available service and inventory management modules allow organizations to manage projects in a single system from the office or field. Superior mobile technology streamlines job site time entry and expense management. Managers traveling between job sites can access real-time information from their connected device, including mobile dashboards, submittals, drawings, photo logs, daily field reports, and RFIs anywhere, on any device.

Extend Acumatica with Certified Applications

The Acumatica Marketplace is one of the leading communities of independent software vendors with integrated applications for
construction management, estimates and proposals, job-site time records and HR, equipment, supply-logistics and shipping, contract management with eSignature and more.

 

Innovative Cloud Platform for Modern Technologies

The modern construction industry demands an ERP platform that ensures scalability and personalisation. The ability to integrate new technologies that facilitate growth without extensive IT costs is essential for construction companies to gain the competitive edge they need to thrive in today’s environment.

The Acumatica xRP platform is a versatile architectural framework and application development platform that empowers companies to tailor the software to the way they do business. Acumatica’s open architecture provides open APIs, protocols, and tools organisations need to continually incorporate new capabilities into their platform without disrupting other functions. Machine learning and artificial intelligence automate manual tasks and streamline processes. Low-code or no-code development tools let organisations easily incorporate third-party applications and modern technologies into their ecosystem.

Personalised settings promote an intuitive experience for each user. Customisable reports and dashboards put KPIs and deadlines on top of each user’s list of priorities. On-the-go mobility enables users to complete their work wherever they are and enjoy the same intuitive experience regardless of the device.

Computime Business Software are exclusive resellers for Acumatica in Malta. Our implementation architects and consultants possess extensive certifications and hands on experience implementing projects tailored to our customers specific requirements. For over 40 years, we have been offering a mix of leading on-premises and cloud-based products, along with our proprietary technology, to deliver business growth and agility to some of the biggest organisations across multiple sectors.

Learn more about how Acumatica can work in your business by visiting www.acumatica.com or call/email +356 2149 0700 / info@computimesoftware.com to speak with a Computime Business Software representative.