Large Project-Based Manufacturers Suffer from Disjointed Data Utilization, Causing Lack of Visibility and Control

Summary

Project business executives typically have very little visibility into the current real-time status of their projects and therefore the business as a whole. Under their current fragmented application landscape, they may receive weekly status updates and monthly overviews. Sadly, this information is already outdated by the time they receive it, due to the time required to consolidate the data and generate reports. As a result, issues and risks go unnoticed until they have grown into drastic production crises which risk the entire project. Decision-making becomes extremely difficult for large manufacturers of project business operations with limited, outdated and inaccurate information.

Typical application landscape for project-based large manufacturers

To compensate for the lack of support from traditional ERPs, a large project manufacturer typically employs between 10 and 15 systems and applications to manage its business processes.



The mix of applications used invariably includes massive amounts of spreadsheets. To manage this limitation, most large manufacturers employ controllers and data processors to export, import, and consolidate data from these different systems. They manipulate the data to create reports for executives attempting to manage the business with this information. It is a deeply flawed and antiquated methodology for large project-based manufacturers in 2021.
 
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The result of this disparate application landscape is a lack of control over the operations. Since work and information flows are not connected, trying to standardize or insert a mechanism of control over such a landscape is impossible. The lack of visibility and control leads to poor business performance. Project timelines and budgets slip, margins erode, and cash flow dissipates.
 

The PBA solution

Adeaca built the first Project Business Automation system, providing an all-in-one business management solution for project-based companies. Expertise in project-based industries, together with Microsoft’s enterprise platform, Dynamics 365 Finance, delivers a comprehensive solution.

The solution to a non-integrated mode of operation is to integrate. That is precisely the function of the new PBA category. It standardizes, integrates, and systemizes all project business processes data for large manufacturers.