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Civil Engineering & Constructionfor Microsoft Dynamics AX

To-Increase Solutions for Construction Businesses based on Microsoft Dynamics AX


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Civil Engineering and Construction:

Tight Margins, Lean Projects

Businesses within the civil engineering and construction

industry face challenges that stem from one core concept:

maintaining an acceptable profit margin in a lean, project-

driven environment. These companies need solutions that

keep pace with requirements for margin-driven project

management. But with fierce competition and the pressure to

reduce margins, your IT solutions must deliver much more than

functional capabilities. You also need the ability to respond

quickly to new developments and maintain your competitive

edge, without being limited by system constraints.

To-Increase Civil Engineering & Construction for

Microsoft Dynamics AXBuilding on powerful Microsoft Dynamics AX capabilities,

To-Increase offers a set of lean business processes that focus

on profit margin control and effective project management for

your specialized industry.

To-Increase Civil Engineering & Construction offers proven

capabilities to help meet highly specific needs, including

increased customer demand for fast response and improved

service, streamlined processes, and internal procedures that

create a lean environment. The result? Efficient operations,robust financial management, and profitable results.

Deliver tangible results

Improve operations by empowering employees to run

business processes efficiently.

Take advantage of global opportunities with support for

multiple languages and multi-country legal requirements.

Improve business partnerships with shared visibility into

project information and intuitive collaboration tools.

Set and manage prot margins and expectations from

quote to completion.

W W W . T O I N C R E A S E . C O M

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Designed for businesses that focus on roadworks, waterworks,

and building civil infrastructures, Civil Engineering &Construction for Microsoft Dynamics AX helps you master

business processes that include:

Project Lifecycle Management

Quotes and Bids

Subcontracting

Progress Billing

Cost Rate Management

Procurement Web-Based Data Collection

Document Management

Retention

Asset and Plant Management

Global Support

Integration with Familiar Microsoft Products

Optimize Business Processes

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Key Business Challenges

Improve business processes and profitability

To manage customer expectations for projectsincluding

time, materials, and laborconstruction companies need

to optimize operational processes. Our solutions capabilities

equip you to design and execute jobs that carry an acceptable

profit margin and adhere to compliance regulations, from the

initial bid to the final bill.

Manage profit margins

Controlling profit margins throughout a construction

project depends on a structured and exible solution.

Civil Engineering & Construction helps you calculate and

understand the dynamics of a bid, and capture the richness

and complexity of the data used to build it.

By enabling you to create nearly flawless bids, the solution

ensures that you can receive internal signoff quickly, and

provide your customer with a fast turnaround that reflectsaccurate design and planning.

And when you roll the bid into a contract, youre prepared to

begin the project, with a clear baseline for measuring project

margins, results, and profitability.

Control compliance

To meet environmental, governmental, and industrial

compliance regulations, construction businesses must

implement rules and best practices for myriad day-to-day

processes. Your business needs to adhere to environmental

specifications for materials, manage construction and job-site

waste, and determine costs. Civil Engineering & Construction

delivers compliance controlsincluding workows, guidelines,

and checkliststo help you factor compliance costs into your

bids, enforce processes, and meet projections. Document

management capabilities are embedded in the operational

process to help ensure you meet compliance expectations and

manage processes efficiently.

Equip teams to work together to achieve results

Business growth depends on your ability to create and execute

successful projects, especially large projects that involve a wide

range of dependencies. Construction businesses in particular

rely on robust processes, supported by specialized technology,

to define scope and manage projects from initial bid to project

completion. That said, your most valuable asset is your people.

Across the business, individuals and teams need fast, easy ways

to share information and collaborate in a multidisciplinary

environment.

Think about it. Engineering teams need to provide a clear overall

architecture. Project management needs to control cost, billing,

and planning. Teams in the field need to provide feedback

about the actual status of the project and consumption of

resources. Civil Engineering & Construction enables you to

streamline processes; give all project stakeholders deep visibility

into centralized, real-time information; and fuel collaboration

that leads to winning results.

Your business management solution serves as the foundation for planning and executing strategies and

tactics, including margins, compliance, and results. To direct and control your business effectively, youneed an end-to-end IT solution created by industry experts.




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Strengthen Team Insight and Action

The construction business is all about teamwork. Civil Engineering & Constructions delivers a framework

that supports cross-departmental processes and encourages collaboration.

For example, when a foreman reports slower progress then

planned, the system triggers an alert and notifies the project

manager by e-mail. As soon as the project manager receives

the notification, discussions start about how to correct and

control the situation. This can lead into variation orders or

replanning of activities to safeguard the project result and

margin. The project manager can then make an informed

decision based on expert collaboration.

Drive control with robust information

management

Information needs to be centralized, real-time, and easily

accessible and updatable from the desk or the field. With

information at your fingertips, you can quickly determine

the health of the overall organization. Civil Engineering &

Construction offers data management capabilities that you

can use to understand and control each project and your

overall business.

Youll have direct insight into critical processes, including

bids, project development and execution, equipment

management, and financial status. The intuitive interface

empowers employees to quickly access and work with the

information and tools that are relevant to their role. Built-in

business intelligence and personalized dashboards make it

easy to view high-level overviews and quickly drill down into

detailsall within the same window. Across the enterprise,

stakeholders are equipped with the business insight and

intelligence they need to effectively manage the rhythm of

your business.

Ensure organization wide access to accurate

data and intelligence

A successful construction company is built on access to facts

that can drive educated decisions, corrections, and overall

project and business insight. Because cash flow is critical, and

profit is the goal, Civil Engineering & Construction provides

top-down, data-driven insight into business status and every

aspect of each project. In addition to workflows, event-

triggered alerts and e-mail notifications, and key performance

indicators (KPIs), the reporting framework included in

Microsoft Dynamics AX enables you to quickly consolidate,

analyze, and share information to help fuel your growth.




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For example, imagine that you can read your vehicle

information and plan preventative maintenance plans based

on that data. Or integrate processes and data flow with your

subcontractors to align activities that meet your customers

expectations. Think about sharing data from eld-based teams

to maximize collaboration with engineers. These are just a few

examples showing how integrating data strengthens work in

process and helps you meet longer-term goals for connecting

your business.

Centralize data management

Integrated data maximizes control and empowers your

project teams to make confident decisions. Civil Engineering

& Construction offers centralized information that can

be accessed by all stakeholders, so that the right people

can manage and synchronize critical details such as cost

rates, materials, equipment, health and safety standards,

and resource allocation. For example, your sales teams can

create bids by using the latest cost price data. Your planning

department can plan the best people for each job, determine

their availability, and reassign team members if necessary. The

planning department can also allocate the equipment needed

for each job. Integrated material planning helps prevent or

plan for delays in the management of construction materials

or avoid inappropriate scheduling of materials.

Create accurate, competitive quotes

The first stage in the planning process is the quote. Advanced

formulas and margin-based calculations help you create

solid, accurate quotes. But to win projects, quotes must be

Put Knowledge to Work:

Connect People, Processes, and SystemsEverybody understands that to remain competitive, you need an IT solution that integrates your data. But what exactly are the benets? To-Increase

Civil Engineering & Construction centralizes data to support integrated systems, partners, and processesgiving you a unied ecosystem for planning,

development, and execution.

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both accurate and competitive. With Civil Engineering &

Construction, you can efficiently estimate projects and build

competitive quotes that can drive new business, using data

from business templates or project actuals.

Incorporate subcontractors into project

contracts

Subcontracting is an organic process for nearly all

construction companies. Civil Engineering & Construction

supports total control on subcontracts. Building on the

purchase process, subcontracting capabilities incorporate

subcontracts into your overall project.

Configure to meet construction-specific needs

Get the precise data you need to determine the specic costs

and requirements for products and services. For example,

Civil Engineering & Construction includes a configuration

process for determining material specifications, such as pipes

or foundations. Equally important, this data can provide

specifications for products and services that can be reused for

quality inspection processes.

Include equipment management in your

process

Because equipment management is key to the construction

business, To-Increase has added this dimension to the

transaction data included in the Project Series in Microsoft

Dynamics AX. Estimating, planning, and execution processes

include equipment management as an industry -specific

capability. Equipment management functionality enables

you to:

Create outbound equipment rental contracts for

intercompany or other construction companies.

Manage equipment maintenance, repair, and overhaul

processes.

Control enterprise-wide assets with integrated equipment

and xed asset management.

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Manage cost and revenue transactions for projects.

Plan and dispatch equipment on construction activities.

Align data exchange across subsystems

Efficiency depends on connecting construction processes to

ensure agile data exchange across subsystems and with partners.

Civil Engineering & Construction offers business templates and a

straightforward integration toolkit that streamline data exchange

processes. In addition to the toolkit, the Solution Center enables

you to easily configure and control product-based interaction.

You can even create an application that focuses on a lean and

intuitive process for end users, without the need for expensive

development that increases your total cost of ownership. Our

motto? Keep it simple.

Efficiently collect field data

Action takes place in the field. Informed decision-making for

projects happens onsite. To ensure onsite stakeholders make

the right decisions, field teams need the ability to report data.

Civil Engineering & Construction includes a data collection

solution that adapts to conditions in the eld. Foremen and

project managers working onsite can also submit data that is

immediately incorporated into existing project information.

Data collected from the field includes:

Health and safety (HSE) status

Equipment usage data

Labor costs

Materials consumed

Expenses




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Your Growth. Our Goal. Drive your business forward.

Simplify and enhance your production processes. Boost efficiency

and optimize business management to stand out in a competitive

marketplace. To-Increase Civil Engineering & Construction forMicrosoft Dynamics AX delivers an end-to-end system tailored to

your unique construction needs.

About To-Increase

As a global ISV and Microsoft Gold Certied Partner, To-Increase

develops solutions for industry verticalsincluding manufacturing,

retail, construction, warehouse, and professional services. Our

portfolio for Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft Dynamics

NAV includes end-to-end industry solutions, business integration

solutions, and a wide range of add-on products. We also develop

eCon, a leading sales and product configurator designed to work

seamlessly with Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM solutions.

The To-Increase team brings together deep exper ience developing

business software with industry vertical expertise. We sell our

solutions indirectly, through a global partner network thats built on

trust, respect, and knowledge sharing. Along with comprehensive

certification and training programs, we provide our partners with

robust structure and support that ensure customer satisfaction for

sales, implementation, and ongoing services.

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