"Projects completed on time and on budget. Planning, execution and integrated control of works."

Overview

Long, complex projects with a long list of materials make the Civil Construction and Public Works sector highly susceptible to delays and cost overruns.

Rigorous control over the execution time and costs is essential, without it, deadlines are pushed back, costs exceed budget and the company’s image suffers as a result.

There are so many factors that affect the Construction sector, but you can bring everything together with a rigorous plan and a good execution and control.

The PRIMAVERA Construction solution makes all the processes simpler and execution quicker. And you can control everything in real time. Give your business a boost with this solution:

  • Quickly assess tenders and submit bids
  • Present strict budgets and time periods that can be achieved without any margin for delays and cost overruns.
  • Reduce the management costs of materials and human resources
  • Do away with time-consuming processes
  • Get maximum financial control
  • Ensure speedy compliance with all tax and legal requirements
  • Monitor the work in real time

 

OPTIMISE THE AWARD PROCESS.

Award sub-works contracts rapidly by taking advantage of automatic proposal comparison mechanisms that allow you to take speedy decisions and always based on consolidated information.

Get rid of the administrative burden. The PRIMAVERA Construction Solution provides sound price analysis mechanisms which optimise proposal control and sub-works contracts' negotiation.

The Solutions

  • Overview
  • Negotiation
  • Budgeting
  • Tenders
  • Awarding of Contracts
  • Planning
  • Materials
  • Control
  • Price Revision
  • Mobility
  • Maintenance
  • Human Resources
  • Financial Management
  • Support for Decision-Making

Boost your results through an integrated management of the operating, administrative and financial processes.

The PRIMAVERA Construction solution optimises the management of the project, from the tender phase through to the end of the project and the evaluation of its profitability. All facets are integrated through automatic flows of information that simplify processes and accelerate operations – starting with the response to tenders, and including negotiation, contract award, budgeting, planning, execution and control, right up to the profitability analysis.

Increase the efficiency of your business and optimise project management with a solution that boosts results.

It’s easy to keep up with the negotiation processes, up to the final signing of the contract and the renegotiation of conditions.

The PRIMAVERA Construction solution simplifies the systematisation of information on the various phases of negotiation for each work, project or tender. Using the link to the CRM (Customer Relationship Management), you can quickly organise contacts, log the activities carried out, file documents, manage the value of the bids and analyse information on your competition.

Know your business portfolio in detail. Understand why you missed out on a project. Easily find the information that allows you to optimise marketing campaigns. With this solution, you can easily consult the estimated value of your business portfolio by project type, by customer or geographical area, etc. You also have access to various analysis on sales performance.

Easily structure the various resources that will be used on a job. Get a precise calculation of the costs of execution and speed up the request for quotes before streamlining the comparison of bids.

PRIMAVERA Construction simplifies the entire budgeting process. A simple and intuitive price structure (cost database) allows you to process prices by units or grouped into categories – Personnel, Equipment, Materials and Miscellaneous.

Get quantitative, qualitative and percentage analysis of the estimated resources for each project, through a flexible structure of Performance Files. Simplify the preparation of cost budgets, sales budgets and re-budgeting.

Be sure, too, of the feasibility of the budgets presented. This solution has automatic validation mechanisms that alert you to errors in budgeting. For example, abnormally high or low prices, prices that are below cost and missing quantities, along with other inaccuracies.

Speed up the management of bids for tenders. The PRIMAVERA Construction solution simplifies the management of tenders, both from the point of view of the project owner as well as from that of the contractor.

Prepare, receive and compare bids quickly. This solution simplifies the management of all the information related to tenders, whether from a perspective of creating bids, or from a perspective of their being received, compared and accepted.

Do away, too, with the time-consuming administrative processes associated with the management of tenders. PRIMAVERA Construction automates processes such as simultaneous requests for quotations from various suppliers, the reception of bids, the automatic comparison of prices and their acceptance, activating the corresponding subcontracting jobs or purchase documents in the area of Logistics.

If you have access to the competing bids, this solution allows you to easily compare your bid with that of your competitor. This helps you to identify areas for improvement and opens the way to successful bids in the future.

Enjoy more streamlined negotiation with suppliers. The mechanism for analysing prices gives you a set of analyses related to alterations in the cost of resources. By applying K factors or margins on your resources, you get data that allows you to optimise negotiations with suppliers and make the best business deals.

As an example, with this solution you quickly see the weight an alteration in the unit price of a resource would have on the overall budget. And you can just as simply see what the resulting gain would be from a percentage discount or what the consequences would be of an increase in the cost/hour for a category of personnel.

Do away with the administrative processes that hinder productivity. With PRIMAVERA Construction you can automatically award orders based on the quotations, and directly create subcontracted jobs from the project clauses or following calls for prices.

At the same time, speed up the administrative control of subcontracted jobs. The solution streamlines the management of documents and personnel management, by issuing alerts on the expiry dates of licences and employee time clocks, for example.

Missed deadlines are a constant concern in the Civil Construction and Public Works sector. But it doesn’t have to be that way! With strict planning, it is possible to present a timetable for the works that is feasible, realistic and executable.

The PRIMAVERA Construction solution also aids in the time management of projects. Thanks to the integration with specific planning tools (MS Project, Open Project and others), timetables and schedules are quick and easy to obtain.

From the financial point of view, planning and management control is optimised. Payment plans, financial schedules, resource plans, and loading charts for personnel and equipment are at your fingertips.

Make materials management more dynamic. The mechanisms for integration with the Logistics area ensure that you have a high level of control of stocks. They also guarantee increased productivity, because they do away with redundant administrative operations that are time consuming and highly susceptible to errors.

Speed up your procurement operations and issue calls for quotations to various suppliers, all at the same time. Easily compare the bids and quickly place your orders. The operations are integrated, eliminating redundancies and wasted time.

The supply processes are fast, whether you’re talking about an order to a supplier, an internal requisition or a transfer between warehouses.

Know exactly the amount of work already executed and its value, at all times. Control the execution of the work through records of physical measurements and reports of amounts to be invoiced.

Whether you are the project owner, the contractor or a subcontractor, PRIMAVERA Construction makes it easier to monitor the progress of the work. This solution helps you record and process the measurements of the awarded values already executed and the amounts to be invoiced, through the Measurement Reports.

Easily monitor progress with mechanisms that allow you to define values of execution and invoicing, according to the quantities, percentages and amounts of pre-established costs or contracted sales price.

Streamline the management of Extra Work or Less Work. Managing additional contracts for unforeseen work couldn’t be easier. Simplify the processing and calculation of the amounts of withholding and deductions that apply to the values in the Reports.

Speed up the Price Revision processes. Automatically access values for the revision and the corresponding adjustment coefficients from the Payment Plan, Measurement Reports, Advance Payments or other data.

You can also easily issue explanatory documents on the data taken into consideration for the calculation of the results.

Do away with all the time-consuming processes and quickly import the revision indices in digital format.

Important information follows you wherever you happen to be. On your computer, tablet or smartphone… access information anywhere.

All you need is internet access on the job site to be able to prepare Measurement Reports, add contracts, allocate more resources and log times, make internal requisitions and transfer materials between warehouses, return materials to the warehouse and reimburse suppliers. And these are just a few of the many operations available.

This is real-time management. Put an end to lost data and do away with inaccuracies. Streamline operations and take strict control over information, whilst speeding up productivity.

Boost the profitability of each piece of equipment with efficient maintenance management. Increase operational capacity through preventative maintenance, according to the manufacturer’s instructions, safeguarding the safety of the operators and respecting the international standards for equipment maintenance.

Quickly restore operational capacity in the case of a breakdown. Integration with the PRIMAVERA EAM solution means breakdowns and incidents are logged from anywhere, works orders are scheduled on the technical teams’ work charts, and maintenance costs are kept under control.

It’s easy to check the history of breakdowns, their causes and consequences, actions taken, the means involved, downtimes and the related costs. With this information, you can quickly see the profitability of the equipment.

Speed up the administrative process of personnel management and automate the processing of salaries. Streamline the management of contract and work ties and do away with redundant and unproductive administrative operations.

PRIMAVERA Construction integrates with the PRIMAVERA Human Resources management solution, offering automated features that do away with time-consuming processes, reduce costs and increase efficiency in the administrative management of human capital.

Streamline compliance with legal and tax obligations. The solution automatically fills in and sends the reports and official tax statements in effect in various markets.

And you don't have to worry about changes in legislation either. The PRIMAVERA solutions are continuously updated, so you can give your fullest attention to your business.

Access multidimensional analysis that gives you a thorough knowledge of each contract job. Even the most complex analysis scenarios are quickly dealt with in this solution, with the great advantage of your being able to detail in the project control summary panel the movements that gave rise to the values shown.

Simplify your company’s entire financial management – starting with cash flow management, banks, current accounts, cost centres, tax reports, consolidation of results and performance management – through integration with the Financial area of PRIMAVERA ERP.

Increase productivity through all the information automatically flowing between PRIMAVERA Construction and the ERP, doing away with repetitive operations.

A profitable, prosperous business with a future is not built on hunches.

Access reliable information to support strategic decisions. The PRIMAVERA Construction solution offers you countless charts and reports in real time, with a variety of analysis on the progress of the business.

Reduce operating costs by ensuring the supply process runs to maximum efficiency. The solution provides mechanisms that calculate needs and automatically compare bids, allowing you to make the best purchasing decisions.

Have detailed knowledge of your business portfolio too. Access project summary tables with analysis on the works in progress and their corresponding profitability, the costs for material, labour and effective margins. Get analysis of cash flow, statements of payments, account balances, personnel costs and all the information you need to ensure first-class financial management.

 

Benefits

Reduce the complexity that is inherent to the Civil Construction and Public Works sector. The PRIMAVERA Construction solution is the technology that enhances the profitability of companies in the sector, regardless of their size.

Get a fast response to all your needs. This is a flexible solution that can be moulded to the most specific processes of each organisation and that guarantees:

  • A global and integrated management of the work
  • Speed and security in the budgeting process
  • Speed in the management of tenders
  • Streamlined processes for the acceptance of bids and the management of subcontracted jobs
  • Greater efficiency in supplies - Rigour in the planning, execution and control of projects
  • Access to information from anywhere
  • Assertiveness in complying with legal and tax obligations
  • Simplicity in the management of human capital
  • Solid financial management
  • Information to support decision-making

Access

On-site

Obtain a perpetual usage licence for the solution and access your management solution on-site in your business.

With this method, you will have access to a perpetual software usage license.

You can also avoid unpredictable updating costs and high system maintenance costs with the Continuity Software Agreement (CSA). With the CSA, you are guaranteed to always benefit from new technological features and to follow up on legal and tax-related developments in various markets, at a controlled and competitive price.

Cloud

Pay only for what you use.

With the SaaS (software as a service) model, you do not need to acquire and install the software. Access is performed from an internet-connected device following the acquisition of a temporary usage license.

The use of this solution does not require an initial investment. Through payment of a monthly fee, you gain access to the software including its continuous maintenance and updates.

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