Microsoft Dynamics SL for construction
General contractors and residential homebuilders face multiple challenges. To effectively manage business information, it's critical to integrate data from multiple branches or divisions. Managing job schedules, job site materials, cash flow, profit margins, and labor effectively requires constant diligence and innovation. And the primary concern? Providing timely, quality service to clients within the scope of their contract and at a profit.
Microsoft Dynamics SL, formerly Microsoft Solomon, provides project management, job costing, materials management, service call entry, receiving, billing, and sales solutions—all integrated into your financial systems. This allows you to lower your cost of construction processes, reduce project delays, and manage complex job sites. At the same time, you can significantly improve your customer service.
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Benefits of Microsoft Dynamics SL solutions for construction
Microsoft Dynamics SL can help your company:
| • | Increase cross-team collaboration. Project success relies on information shared effectively between architecture and engineering professionals, subcontractors, and project owners. Collaboration helps teams to effectively generate solutions to everyday challenges. |
| • | Strengthen profitable customer relationships. Customer relationship management (CRM) software helps you maintain a rich store of historical customer information that can improve bidding strategies, customer service, and project management. |
| • | Access the right information to effectively manage your project. Your people can utilize accurate information from previous projects to more quickly and accurately bid new ones. Access real-time information about all aspects of the project from start-to-finish. This helps managers respond to customer requests, manage project teams, and efficiently bill time and material contracts. |
| • | Reduce Internal Costs. You cannot improve what you do not measure. By integrating your project management costs directly with your accounting software, you can effectively manage where your hours are being spent and help improve your bottom line. |
| • | Help ensure a positive return on your investment. Because Microsoft Dynamics SL is built on proven, reliable Microsoft technologies and comes with one-stop support from Microsoft Dynamics Support Services, your business can gain a positive return on your investment. And because Microsoft Dynamics SL is supported by a wizard-based configuration and system setup tool, they have been shown to significantly reduce implementation times for a lower total cost of ownership for customers. |
Features overview
Accounting and project integration | Simplify timely analysis and project accountability by providing a single system that allows accountants and project managers to analyze a common set of data. |
Increased visibility into your project | Maintain visibility into all phases of your projects, from planning to final billing, through real-time data sharing with the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution. |
Time and material or fixed-price contract support | Take control of your labor, project, and travel-related expenses. Accurate, timely cost information gives you the data you need to increase your productivity and make better, more effective business decisions. |
Increased business insight | Retrieve and summarize data across multiple projects to assess performance, compare budgets against expenditures, and obtain the information needed to make informed business decisions. |
Project Look-up | Boost productivity and lower your operating costs. Locate a project quickly by entering any of a variety of attributes, such as description, customer, project team, or predefined attributes. |
Web access for team members and customers | Empower your customers and employees with the flexibility and convenience of accessing and acting on key enterprise information anytime via the Web. Give staff and customers the ability to manage orders and check inventory availability and pricing. |
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