Cross-functional collaboration
Even within construction companies that have remained independent, the efficiencies offered by the right enterprise-wide application can create a competitive edge. Traditionally, construction companies...
View ArticleOff-site construction
Major contractors are investing heavily in factories and production facilities designed to move more work off the construction site and into a more controlled environment. Mechanical & electrical...
View ArticleBuilding Information Modeling and ongoing asset management
Major contractors are feeling pressure from clients to deliver more structured data about the building and this is leading to an increased interest in building information modeling (BIM). BIM can...
View ArticleIncreased competition
In conditions of increased foreign and domestic competition, in which builders now have to rely, for years the standard deviation of 5-6% is no longer acceptable – for today’s conditions, 1-2% is too...
View ArticleFacing Economic Challenges
The construction industry suffers more than most in periods of economic decline. It is pulled down early as soon as the economy loses the confidence to invest in the built environment and its recovery...
View ArticleAnd finally “NAV”& Construction…
Is NAV good solution for construction? What processes are covered by NAV? What is requirements for implementation? NAV as most of standard ERP solutions includes standard business processes, as:...
View ArticleStart with new project
What is a new project in NAV? It depend on desired mode of managing. We usually recommend that project can be a “potential project”. If we get Request for Quote from potential investor/customer, we...
View ArticleTrue Story: NAV4Construction in Civil-engineering company
A.D. „Novi Pazar – put“ (eng. “Novi Pazar Road”) is a company with half a century long tradition in construction and maintenance of road and other civil engineering structures. Company owns a large and...
View ArticleBEFORE CONTINUING…
Before I continue to write about the NAV vertical solution details, I need to give you some global picture of the system. First of all, I must to introduce you with the some new entities in...
View ArticleQUANTITY SURVEYOR – CONTRACTING (briefly)
We will use Construction positions from Quantity Surveyor to operational usage and analyzing. At any time we can check out how much work is done by position for the required period. It is possible to...
View ArticleConstruction Management (briefly)
By starting the project and quote acceptance, we start with work on new project. We need to add few specific characteristics: Contract Status (Accepted), Contract No. and Contract Date. We can add many...
View ArticleMechanization Management (briefly)
Besides mechanization engagement posting and monitoring at number of different parameters at the same time (work hours, mileage, transported or excavated quantity…) using NAV Job Journal and Resource...
View ArticleStandard NAV in Construction?
I got a lot of questions “Why you create vertical? Why standard NAV cannot do construction business?”… These are very interesting questions. Especially because I am protector of standard NAV...
View ArticleWhat is main strength of our NAV4Construction vertical solution?
Absolute precision in cost control at the early start when you try to make bids. Cost and revenues control at full life cycle of project. We use all good things from NAV (we don’t need to make again...
View ArticleCost Accounting in Manufacturing (intro) 1/4
Manufacturing Management is not Construction Management, but usually production is the part of construction business. I told about this in my older posts. For this reason, I will write next few posts,...
View ArticleCost Accounting in Manufacturing (setup) 2/4
In last post, we stopped on Adjust Capacity Cost automatic calculation process in NAV4Construction. As I said, this process, you do not have to use only in construction process; you can use it in all...
View ArticleCost Accounting in Manufacturing (calculation) 3/4
Adjust Capacity Cost automatic calculation process recalculate evaluated Capacity Costs to actual Capacity Cost. Actual costs of capacity are the really costs bookkeeper posted as payables costs on G/L...
View ArticleCost Accounting in Manufacturing (reporting) 4/4
Cost Accounting has many report and analysis. One of the most important report is Prod. Order – Detailed Calculation. Depends of options you choose, report can get analysis with less or more details....
View ArticleCost Accounting for Resources (intro) 1/4
Previous serial was devoted to calculate actual cost for goods in production. On the same way, we have way to automatic calculate actual cost for resources (machines, vehicles and labor work) in...
View ArticleCost Accounting for Resources (setup) 2/4
Applying Calculated Cost automatic calculation process recalculate evaluated Resource Costs to actual Resource Cost. Actual costs are the really costs bookkeeper posted as payables costs on G/L...
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