Cloud-based ERP solutions for construction industry businesses
Whether you’re in the residential or commercial construction industry, the pressure is mounting to combat high building material costs, rising labor costs, skyrocketing demand, and costly new environmental regulations. An ERP solution delivered with customizations to your business by Rand Group can transform your day-to-day construction operations, help you overcome industry financial challenges, and deliver long-term success.
Deliver quality projects with an ERP solution tailored for construction operations
Construction organizations that partner with Rand Group have the opportunity for streamlined employee management, the ability to win projects faster, the elimination of costly inefficiencies, and improved supplier relations through implementing a connected business solution. Our construction industry and ERP experts combined with the power of Microsoft, NetSuite, and other leading technologies deliver robust business systems with automated process and data flows, effective project management and resource scheduling capabilities, project bidding tools, and accounting functionality.
Rand Group is your long-term partner to help you address industry challenges such as managing changing environmental regulations, adapting to volatile materials costs, and shortening project delivery timelines. We have been serving clients in the construction industry since 2003, and are a certified Microsoft gold partner and Oracle NetSuite Solution Provider.
Manage resources and projects with ease
Use a single tool to quickly determine which projects can be capitalized, equipped, and staffed for success, and avoid project delays due to scheduling conflicts.
Streamline financial processes and increase visibility
Drive margin revenue growth with a centralized, global financial management solution that delivers robust financial intelligence and embedded analytics in real time to help increase profitability.
Provide strong customer and field service to improve relationships
Transform the way you provide service by remotely monitoring and interacting with IoT-enabled assets. Diagnose problems before customers are even aware of an issue and schedule asset maintenance to create a proactive and predictive service model.
Case Study
Excelling with a cloud-based ERP in the construction industry
After a failed implementation of Dynamics 365 Business Central by another partner that left users unable to use the system, Rand Group stepped in to successfully re-implement the cloud-based ERP tailored to TCC’s construction industry processes. Rand Group also helped TCC increase efficiency and productivity by creating an end-to-end business application to streamline subcontractor communication and payment processing that saves 2 days of manual work each week.
Case Study
Excelling with Business Central in the construction industry
After a failed implementation of Dynamics 365 Business Central by another partner that left users unable to use the system, Rand Group stepped in to successfully re-implement the cloud-based ERP tailored to TCC’s construction industry processes. Rand Group also helped TCC increase efficiency and productivity by creating an end-to-end business application to streamline subcontractor communication and payment processing that saves 2 days of manual work each week.
Utilize robust project accounting features
As a construction company, you’re undertaking multiple projects at once, while bidding and planning for future projects. Make it easier to manage projects by leveraging a project accounting solution designed to handle milestone billings, better capture and associate time and expenses with project tasks, and get better overall view of your project profitability so you can stop taking on unprofitable work.
Project accounting functionality in Microsoft and NetSuite solutions tailored for construction businesses by Rand Group includes:
- Track time and expenses with fully integrated timesheet and expense capabilities
- Monitor the financial performance of individual projects, review resource consumption and earned revenue in real time, and monitor project profitability by using revenue recognition and work in progress
- Boost project estimating and quoting by leveraging accurate, historical data and reports for more accurate and efficient project budgeting
- Set milestones, manage tasks, apply budgets, and recognize revenue across multiple project types at the same time
Simplify project and resource scheduling
When scheduling jobs and determining which resources to work on which jobs, it’s important to have a clear picture of availability and skills across the organization at any given time. Ensure that you have the right people on the right projects through resourcing insights, scheduling, governance, and skills matching in your ERP solution.
Rand Group will deliver an ERP solution of your choic so you can:
- Use proficiency models to rate skills to ensure the qualified resources are matched with the appropriate tasks
- Distribute workloads across your resources for optimal execution on project delivery needs
- Monitor resource usage trends in a dashboard
- Get a complete overview of resource capacity including availability and planned usage
Manage contractors, vendors, and customers in a single system
Coordinating and managing all the people involved in your projects – including contractors, suppliers, customers, and more – can be a difficult task, especially when working in the field. A connected, cloud-based ERP solution from Microsoft or NetSuite simplifies communication and provides a central location to store all relevant information about each party.
Rand Group will ensure your ERP:
- Consolidates customer data in a single view to get actionable insights for personalized customer engagements
- Offers a vendor collaboration portal to improve communication and give access to relevant documents
- Offers mobile device capabilities to access data from anywhere
- Uses centralized document storage to keep track of project information
Rand Group’s industry-tailored solutions for construction businesses
Rand Group is proud to offer a variety of ERP solutions built by Microsoft and NetSuite to transform the way you run your construction operations. Our team will help you evaluate and select the best solution for your business, then implement and customize it based on your specific processes. Explore Microsoft and NetSuite solutions below based on your organization’s unique needs.
Dynamics 365 Business Central
Business Central is a cloud-based business management solution that automates and streamline processes and offers an end-to-end view across financials, sales, service, supply chain, and inventory. It is highly customizable for real estate and is designed for organizations of all sizes.
Dynamics 365 Project Operations
Dynamics 365 Project Operations gives organizations the visibility, collaboration, and agility needed to drive project success by unifying opportunity management, resource scheduling, expense management, and financials. It is cloud-based and connects seamlessly with Dynamics 365 applications.
NetSuite ERP
NetSuite ERP gives organizations clear visibility and control of their business from financials to supply chain, order management, procurement, production management, and warehouse management. It is designed for mid to large size organizations and is highly customizable to the oil and gas industry.
NetSuite SuiteProjects
With SuiteProjects, you gain complete visibility into and control over your projects in real-time. Enable team members to collaborate on projects and maintain current and accurate project status at all times, allowing managers to proactively identify and resolve potential issues with each engagement.
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3 things to consider when choosing an ERP for your construction business
Companies in the construction industry know the challenges of juggling numerous moving pieces such as job costs and budgets, progress reporting, managing subcontractors, scheduling field crews, tracking materials and equipment, rescheduling due to delays, and much more. An all-in-one business management solution, such as an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, can help streamline and automate various tasks.
What is Building Information Modeling (BIM)?
Collaboration and communication are evolving in the construction industry. The days of contractors operating in silos are slowly disappearing and being replaced by a system of collaboration and communication, spearheaded by building information modeling (BIM) – a popular topic in today’s construction industry, but it’s also a grossly misunderstood one.
How real estate companies can benefit from Dynamics 365 Business Central
From managing sales and listings, property payments, document management, and more, real estate companies often find themselves using various different software solutions for key operational processes without any integration between them. To reduce inefficiencies, streamline workflows, and allow for seamless data flow, Rand Group recommends using a single software solution for managing your business processes.
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