Integrated Daily Cost Control - Discoverer to P6 and PCM
Integration allows PMs to manage 20 projects at once
PMs get on top of projects with daily integrated system
Client Overview
Calgary pre-fab manufacturer with international projects needed integration to accounting and purchasing system to get control over client commitments and internal and external spending for hundreds of simultaneous projects.
Challenges
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Tracking costs to date on hundreds of projects manually was too time consuming
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Client forecasting was taking too long and overruns were being missed
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Senior management was not getting the reporting done in a timely manner
Results
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Integrated daily costs from Discoverer into P6 and PCM Contract Management
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Updated the external contract and PO costs into expenses
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Integrated the internal detailed resource costs into resources and forecasted onto the budget resource
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P6-Calculator did all the cost rollups and comparisons to the budget
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P6-Calculator flagged integration errors, mismatches, and potential incorrect charges for the PM
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BI Reporting was developed for cost to date, forecasting, earned value, CPI, SPI and changes to-date
