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Is it time to invest in ERP for Construction?
Some old post:...In the next few posts, we will discuss the reasons why in present era ERP is necessary in construction industry. Is it time to invest in ERP for construction and why move the...
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Consolidation In The Construction Industry
Many smaller contracting businesses have merged or been purchased by larger concerns recently, while at the top of the supply chain there have been a number of huge mergers and acquisitions. This...
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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...
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Off-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...
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Building 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...
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Increased 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...
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Facing 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...
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And 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:...
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NAV “Sicily”
Yes, it is a true. NAV version 8 is coming. New NAV has code name “Sicily”. I think, new version will be ready in early 2014, but I expect the Beta version in 2013Q3 or in Q4. Because all of us expect...
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Start 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 will...
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True 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...
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Before 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...
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Quantity 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...
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Construction 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...
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Mechanization 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...
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Standard 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...
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What 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...
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How to make “Help” file in NAV
If you want to create a good vertical solution, it will not be possible without making help file. Maybe someone don’t want to make help, but if you want to pass CfMD test, you must to provide help for...
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Cost 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,...
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Cost 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...
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