End-to-end ERP software for construction businesses
Challenges faced by construction businesses today include high building material costs and rising labor costs while demand skyrockets and costly new environmental regulations are implemented. A Microsoft ERP system delivered by Rand Group will automate business processes and help you overcome these industry challenges.
Boost financial visibility with a construction ERP solution
Simplify your employee management, win more deals, eliminate inefficiencies, and improve supplier relations with a Microsoft business solution tailored to your construction business. Rand Group’s team of industry and ERP experts deliver connected systems that include robust project accounting features, simplified project and resource scheduling capabilities, and intelligent data flows that automate key processes.
Rand Group is your trusted Microsoft partner to help you evaluate the best solution to fit your needs and implement the solution with customizations to your unique processes. With an ERP delivered by Rand Group, you can address various industry challenges such as environmental regulations, increasing resources costs, and heightened demand.
Manage and schedule projects and resources
Project and resource scheduling capabilities make it easy to identify how to effectively capitalize, equip, and staff for success to ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget.
Improve financial processes
Boost revenue and growth with real-time visibility into financial performance. Robust financial intelligence and embedded analytics allow you to monitor project profitability and make adjustments as necessary.
Deliver strong customer and field service
Enhance your customer service operations with machine learning, mixed reality, and IoT technology. Build a proactive and predictive service model to anticipate and resolve issues before your customer even knows there’s a problem.
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.
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.
Robust project accounting
Construction companies often work on multiple projects at the same time while simultaneously bidding on new projects. An ERP solution delivered by Rand Group streamlines project management by enhancing project accounting by supporting multiple billings and simplifying time and expense tracking. Unlock complete visibility into the profitability of your projects so you can better plan projects in the future.
Project accounting functionality in Dynamics 365 for construction companies allows you to:
- Better capture time and expenses with timesheet and expense management capabilities
- Review resource consumption and earned revenue in real-time for each project
- Monitor project profitability by using revenue recognition and work in progress
- Enhance project estimating, quoting, and budgeting with accurate, historical data and reports
- Manage different project types: set milestones, manage tasks, apply budgets and recognize revenue across multiple project types at the same time
Streamling project and resource scheduling
Microsoft Dynamics 365 gives managers the ability to better utilize resources based on project needs, skills, and availability. Leverage powerful tools that provide project managers with a fast and easy way to assign people to projects to ensure the right people are working on the right projects.
Use Dynamics 365 to simplify project and resource scheduling with:
- Proficiency models that rate skills to ensure the right resources are assigned to the right projects
- Resource scheduling to distribute workloads for optimal execution of project delivery needs
- Dashboards to monitor resource usage trends
- Reports that provide a comprehensive overview of resource capacity including availability and planned usage
Contractor, vendor, and customer management
Successfully managing the people involved in your construction projects may be a complex task. From contractors to suppliers and customers, Dynamics 365 consolidates communications into a central location that stores relevant information.
With Dynamics 365 you can:
- Provide personalized customer engagements with actionable insights into customer data
- Enhance vendor collaboration with a portal that provides access to relevant documents
- Improve accessibility to data with mobile device capabilities
- Centralize document storage to keep track of project information
Discover Microsoft’s solutions for construction businesses
Rand Group is a trusted Microsoft partner that can tailor Dynamics 365 to meet the needs of construction businesses. Our team will help you evaluate and select the best solution for your business, then implement and customize it based on your specific processes.
Dynamics 365 Business Central
Business Central is a comprehensive business management solution on the cloud that helps automate and streamline business processes and offers an end-to-end view across financials, sales, service, supply chain, and inventory.
Dynamics 365 Field Service
Dynamics 365 Field Service uses intelligent IoT, machine learning, and mixed reality capabilities to enable proactive field service operations, effective resource scheduling, and boost technician and asset productivity.
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 project financials.
Related Insights
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.
Let’s talk about how we can transform your business
