Project Control Software

Project Control Software With Performance Indicators For All Cost Areas

Hard Dollar project control software enables real-time and historic job and project cost management designed for use by your operational teams. Project control provides performance indicators on all project cost areas providing valuable insight to make quick decisions resulting in profit margin increases on every job. Centralization of key information provides collaboration and reporting across multiple jobs, projects and organizational departments. The project control system is outside the company’s sensitive accounting system providing the flexibility and manipulation capabilities required for testing alternatives and maximizing profit outcomes. Project control provides integration to over 50 different accounting systems, out of the box, which eliminates re-entry of data between systems saving personnel time and eliminating reproduction errors.

Project control provides daily jobsite information including time sheet data, labor hours, equipment hours, productivity, progress quantities, major material receipt and usage, production, and daily notes. Information is available throughout the company in the form of time cards, payroll hours, equipment usage analysis, material analysis, expenses and notes.

Timesheets and Time Management Tracking

Enter timesheets and daily diary information for projects from wherever they happen to be. Record hours worked by cost code, quantities completed, and daily diary notes, and synch that information with the home office using a laptop or handheld device. Analyze fresh data to optimize resources for the next day and provide real-time integration with accounting to accelerate cash flow for faster project billing.

Direct Accounting Integration

Collect and store timesheet data from jobsites, while sharing data electronically with accounting systems to eliminate double entry. Maintain time sheet standards with labor classifications, and other user defined tags. Import timesheet data from third-party systems or to any accounting system. Record notes for each cost item including assumptions, jobsite observations, and more. Increase communication for issues that include staging and additional information to the field operators. Provides crew based timesheets with pre-defined data streamlining foreman or supervisor completion.

Field Resource Tracking

Manage field resources efficiently. Analyze information about productivity and accurately track customer information including account status, equipment usage and service history. Easily make changes when a resource is identified with high performance. Ownership costs and operation costs can include information on depreciation, insurance, and other unique resource costs in order to determine true ownership cost as well as operational use cost.

Anywhere Project Analysis

Web-based reporting and dashboards make it easy to get information from anywhere. Meet with customers on-site to discuss projects with total access to historical information, as well as the ability to develop preliminary budget estimates for project or job budget creation on the fly. Eliminate printing unnecessary reports by remotely focusing what the customer is looking for.

Provide Progress, Resource and "Actual Cost" Updates

Updating HD with data from your other systems is easy when using the HD API. The HD API (Application Programming Interface) provides an automated method for updating HD with data from other systems to create new records, update existing records, or delete records automatically. By extracting the data from your other systems into an XML format supported by HD and submitting the XML data, HD will “listen” for the data and automatically update the appropriate projects. Currently, the HD API supports two types of data, Resource Rates and Job Tracking Details.

Monitor "Actual" Project Costs Without Accounting Delays

Stay up to speed on job and project progress on a daily basis without waiting for accounting information. Preliminary and actual cost data is available daily to assess the need to make potential changes while there's still time to have an impact on the project's success and gross profit margin. Recognize time and other valuable information the moment it is entered without waiting for accounting and not having to re-enter data into multiple systems.

Remote Time Management Tracking

Control and monitor vendor commitments and activity, including original contract project components, insurance and bond monitoring status, change orders, invoices, requisitions, retention processing, and payments.

Collaboration and Updates

Save valuable man-hours eliminating the need to hand off estimates from one team member to the next. Allow last-minute updates until the bid is due, leveraging last minute pricing changes on materials and resources, while allowing multiple estimators to work on a single, or multiple estimates simultaneously.

Remote Data Access

Save gas, time and frustration by accessing information from anywhere including the office, remote offices, home, or client sites. Leverage un-tethered information access with synchronization, putting everything at your fingertips without being connected to the internet or network. Updates are entered throughout the day into a laptop or handheld device, and when convenient, a connection is made to the network to receive and send changes. Entry straight from the field eliminates duplicate data entry into numerous systems. Provide remote project access to managers, foremen and superintendents providing complete access to critical information needed to manage jobs remotely in one central location. Track cost and productivity positions of projects, responsibilities of team members, related documents, and ongoing project activities.

Centralize Project Information

Eliminate storing project information on local drives and multiple network locations. Project data is conveniently stored in one location and shared for easy access to all team members. Multi-office estimating provides synchronization between team members to accommodate real-time estimation updates.