4PS | ERP software for Civil Construction

Modules

CRM and Acquisition
Document Management
Estimation
Project Engineering
Purchasing and Logistic
Project Construction
Project Control
BIM Integration
Finance and Administration
Service and Maintenance
Plant Management
Reporting

Integral Relationship Management

People are at the basis of every project, including people responsible for marketing and sales for your company, as well as your customers. Relationship management is important. 4PS offers CRM for the construction, civil engineering or mechanical and electrical industry as an integral part of your ERP solution (4PS Construct).

You only need to record the data on your relations, customers, vendors and other parties involved once and you can use these throughout the application later. Additionally, the data can be accessed from any location with any type of device, which comes in handy when you are on the go.

Microsoft Office and Skype are fully integrated, enabling you to contact your relations from the application easily, generate quotes from the information of the estimate process quickly, etc.

Be Predictable

Once you have created a good contact file, you can edit the data by simply creating a segment to send a mailing, for instance. You can also use try-outs and try-out quotes to map out your sales pipeline and record your contact moments quickly. The subsequent processes can be started up easily from the try-outs and try-out quotes.

In short, with 4PS CRM you have real-time visibility and you will have a good idea of your relations and acquisition try-outs anytime and anywhere.

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Access to Your Documents, Anytime and Anywhere

Companies like yours create and receive a huge number of documents. Access to your documents anytime and anywhere, however, needs to be safe, easy and organised.

Quick access for internal or external employees to quotes, invoices, e-mails with attachments, specifications, drawings and purchase orders is foremost in the 4PS applications.

The integrated search functionality ensures that your documents are found in an instant.

Along with document storage and management, you can add your own house style to a document with 4PS Construct, and a host of standard templates are available.

All incoming and outgoing documents are stored in a single location, including version management and mutation changes. You can assign documents to the right 4PS Construct processes directly from the Microsoft Office applications or from your Explorer. After you have entered the features and after quick filtering has taken place, retrieving the documents does not take long. It is as simple as it is effective.

The Basis for Collaboration in Projects

Documents can also be accessed via the 4PS Document Portal based on Microsoft SharePoint. From this portal, you grant authorised individuals – whether they belong to your organisation or not – access to the Document Portal, thus realising easily accessible supply chain collaboration.

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Estimate Software from 4PS for the Construction Sector

Thorough estimates are required before a project is realised. This is where our tailor-made estimate software comes in. There are three estimate modules to choose from, each of which is an integral part of 4PS Construct:

4PS Estimate software for construction companies
4PS Estimate software for installation companies
4PS Estimate software for civil engineering companies (RAW methodology)

Each of these modules provides a large number of possibilities to prepare your budget. In the early estimate phase, you lay the foundation for sound project control by means of control codes.

Many companies work with a reliable estimate package. Nevertheless, you can still opt for 4PS and Microsoft. Your estimators can continue to work with the software they are familiar with, since the 4PS is integrated with all known estimate software as standard as well as with the standard CUF format.

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Clear Insight into the Budget

The budget is the core of project control and is, therefore, essential for project engineers. The 4PS software for project engineering helps you create this insight. The original budget (the defining budget) is fixed and will always apply as the point of departure. Changes in execution are managed with budget adjustments and/or additional or less work. In this way, everything remains clear and transparent and the original budget remains unaffected.

A budget arises from the estimate, consisting of elements, cost types and cost objects. You can decide which detail you want to use, which one can vary per project.

Additional or less work can change the original scope of a project. Here, again, a budget can be linked in the same way. The standard instalment schemes can be used for paying additional work.

Buyer support and cmplaint handling is another functionality available in 4PS Construct. Recording house models, plot numbers and options is a major component. It is fully integrated in project engineering and project construction.

The budget can also be a basis for making purchases. Budgets can be linked via purchase actions, and the actions can be started, whether or not upon approval, to purchase quote requests and directly to purchase orders.

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Your Profit Starts with a Strategic Purchase

4PS Construct provides support for all operational, tactical and strategic purchasing processes. The purchasing module has comprehensive possibilities for comparing vendors with each other, generating advisory proposals, looking at stocks and offering you a first means to achieve a positive result.

From the budget, you generate quote requests with the vendors you have chosen. You can cluster purchase requests across the projects and gain a purchase benefit into the bargain. Purchase requests can be digitised with your local standards.

4PS has many standard templates for request letters, thank you letters and reports. Additionally, you can assess vendors on KPIs that you consider relevant. A workflow in 4PS Construct ensures quick and efficient approval (if required) of purchase advice orders.

Minimum Inventory, Maximum Power

Goods received can be included in your stock administration. Many of our customers use barcode scanning to register their stock quickly. All releases and receipts or returns to and from projects can be registered and charged. Your stock administration automatically generates order recommendations based on the minimum stock level.

Inventory Management is fully integrated with, for example, estimates, projects, purchase and finance, providing real-time insight into the material requirement across projects.

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Support in Project Construction

The project can be generated from the acquisition phase, in which much data is produced, whether or not at the construction site, and on which you want to have a grip: actual hours, slips, settlement statements, progress levels, prognoses, used materials. Data you want to use for controlling purposes, but how?

Via the Site Manager Form (SMF), the site manager or project manager enters his/her data, after which you have direct insight into the data. This is possible on any device, provided that an internet connection is available. Hours can be entered in different ways: normal hours, overtime hours, leave registration, direct and indirect hours. Functionality is available for each type, and employees can post hours to the right project and the right cost object from any location, either directly in 4PS Construct or via the 4PS Timesheet Portal.

The data you use in your project control are generated in the project construction phase. The 4PS software for construction, installation and infrastructure companies is a great way to track the status of your projects in real time whenever you want.

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A Grip on Your Project

4PS software for Project Control is what really matters. The 4PS Project Control module offers you the possibility of getting a 360° overview of one or all of your projects. In these overviews, the budget hours and costs can be compared with the actual hours and costs. To determine the result, you can use recorded progress levels, forecasts and revenues.

With the integration of Microsoft PowerBI and Office365, you can share queries and dashboards with those involved easily. By the way, these dashboards are available as standard.

In addition to the control lists for the current period, the historic overviews can be retrieved.

With 4PS project control software, those involved in your company, from site manager to management, have access to the data they need. From the dashboard or the report, you only need to click through to the detailed information that is available in 4PS Construct.

You can control your projects at any level, which is also called Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). You can manage your parent project, subproject, cost centre, contract amount, additional work, purchasing, forecasts, etc. This may differ from project to project and provides maximum flexibility.

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BIM Integral in Your ERP

It is impossible to imagine our current construction and installation culture without the Building Information Model (BIM). This model is where all the information from the design, construction, management and maintenance phases of a location comes together. In this integral model, the parties involved can collaborate in realising a project.

However, almost every BIM model is separate from the ERP software in the construction company, which causes a lot of extra work. Information is maintained at two locations, which increases the risk of errors and failure costs, the very thing that BIM seeks to prevent.

4PS has developed a standard integration module, which uses the information from the ERP system in the BIM Model (IFC file). Manage your information in one location and collaborate with your colleagues in the same building model.

The Benefits for You:

The entire process is managed in one central location;
The details and maintenance history of objects are displayed in the BIM model;
You can use the BIM model data in your estimate, planning, purchasing, project control and service;
Insight into the project at an early phase and thus the possibility of preventing any unnecessary costs;
Unlimited collaboration with the other partners in the construction chain.

This list is not exhaustive. Feel free to ask advice for your organisation!

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Decent and Reliable Bookkeeping

Microsoft Dynamics NAV includes a powerful financial administration solution. Whether it is applied to posting, processing, consolidating or digitising, the possibilities are comprehensive and very user-friendly.

The financial process provides the following functionalities: CIS management, applications and retentions, CRM, ledger, journals, VAT, multiple administrations, budgets, fixed assets, multiple currencies, dimensions, prognoses, mutual current account entries, liquidity forecasts, reporting schemes, importing bank statements and many others.

These very powerful and user-friendly financial software solutions are fully integrated in the project and service administration. You only need to record the data once, after which you can use it throughout your bookkeeping – a unique characteristic that is highly appreciated by the 110,000 Microsoft Dynamics NAV customers.

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Thorough Maintenance

Along with the ‘normal’ project module, 4PS has a special module for Management and Maintenance. We offer the right software for both long-term maintenance contracts (preventive) and ad hoc breakdown calls (corrective).

The entire process is automated, from the customer’s call to the invoice to the customer. With this module, the call is processed more quickly and you save time and costs as the risk of errors is reduced and not all details need to be copied manually. Additionally, the intuitive service planning of 4PS ensures you always send the right person to do the right job.

By using the 4PS Collaboration model, you benefit from functionality for all processes in a Service and Maintenance company.

Supplementary to the software for maintenance companies, the following has been developed by 4PS:

Mobile apps for service calls from consumers or for recording change maintenance;
Portals for maintenance work calls by housing associations or location managers;
Mobile or digital worksheet so that the mechanic has a fully fledged service application at his/her disposal.

4PS software for maintenance companies is user-friendly software from Microsoft already used by many companies.

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Good Tools...

A project cannot be completed if the proper plant items are not available. These can be found at any construction site or project location. The plant department in your company always faces several challenges:

Where are my plant items?
What do my plant items cost?
What is the revenue of my plant items?
Do they comply with the industry standards?

The software for plant management is an integral part of the 4PS modules and has been designed specifically to manage and run your plant and tools. With this software it is easy to register plant items and charge them to projects, maintain your inspection administration, and process the depreciation of your plant.

In the plant module, the logistic aspects (rental orders, locations, planning, transport, issue etc.) and the financial consequences (costs and revenues) are thoroughly supported.

Integrations with well-known test equipment, such as Secutester and PAT, are available as standard. Via your software you can monitor if your plant meets the safety standards.

The 4PS software for plant management is suitable for companies with their own plant administration, but large plant rental companies also already work with the extensive functionality for plant exploitation.

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Flexible, Interactive and Transparent

Flexible, interactive and transparent are features of the reporting functionality available in the 4PS Products as standard. 4PS Construct comes with a standard set of reporting options, dashboards and reports, which enables you to get an excellent idea of the state of affairs of your projects and service contracts.

Thorough management reporting is indispensable for any company in the construction, civil engineering or installation technology sector. It is the key controlling tool of your organisation. For additional reporting functionality that is required beyond the standard reports, 4PS and Microsoft provide easily accessible applications, which enable you to create your own reports without the assistance of 4PS Consultants.

Real-time Insight into the Status of Work in Progress

Do not allow your organisation to be managed on the basis of outdated data. After all, projects are subject to change by definition. With the 4PS reporting dashboards you have the availability of real-time insight (directly via the database) into the state of affairs of your projects. As a result, you can keep a close eye on things and take immediate action if necessary.

Additionally, 4PS can be integrated with PowerBI, PowerPivot and PowerView. Via standard queries, the data generated in 4PS Construct can be used in Excel reporting, giving you extensive possibilities to create the dashboards you need.

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A solid foundation

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