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For More Profitable Projects, Give your Project Managers the Right Tools

For a project manager, knowledge truly is power. To keep a project on time and on budget requires that a project manager have ready access to a wide variety of information from a wide variety of sources. Sage Timberline Office Project Management brings all the information the project manager needs together in one location and displays it in a straightforward, easy-to-use interface. Let’s take a closer look.

Integration and Centralization
The key to the power of Sage Timberline Office Project Management is the centralized database. Because in Sage Timberline Office the accounting, estimating, and purchasing systems are fully integrated, project managers have full access to and control over prime contracts, subcontracts, plans and drawings, change orders, purchase orders, meeting minutes, requests for information (RFIs), and other project-related information. As new information is entered by accounting or operations, updates automatically appear in Project Management.

Real-Time Information
Centralization of information gives project managers a complete picture of every project. For example, the job overview inquiry displays every aspect of a project at once, including contract status, profit, billings, costs, cash, RFIs, and submittals. There is no need to manually synchronize accounting and project management software—it is automatic.

Full Control of Project Documents
Project managers can create, track, and review all documents associated with a project. What are some of the advantages to you? Review all unapproved RFIs to quickly understand the impact on project schedules and costs. Query across logs and jobs for a clear view of remaining tasks to ensure that nothing falls through the cracks.

To maintain a complete log of correspondence between project participants, you can use the correspondence log to add Microsoft Outlook e-mail, Word, and Excel documents to the Project Management database on-the-fly. Issues or questions can be tracked and resolved without skipping a beat.

Dig Into Details
Job inquiry gives project managers fast access to current accounting information. You can delve into details, such as the payment status of an invoice, while on the telephone with the client. And you can opt to include unposted costs in your inquiries.

Smooth Change Order Workflow
Change orders can make or break the profitability of many jobs. With Project Management, change orders can be quickly identified, and quotes and prices requested automatically. A familiar pricing worksheet grid allows you to record all the details, including when quotes are due and from whom. Then, pending change request and/or commitment change orders can be approved and sent on to accounting in one easy step.

Robust Reporting
Over 100 standard reports come with Project Management. These are just a few of the standard reports and inquiries:

• Job status overview report, combining accounting and project management detail
• Purchase orders and subcontracts showing accounts payable invoices and checks
• RFI overdue and unanswered logs and summaries.

Field Reports - New In Version 9.5
Field report enhancements in version 9.5 allow the tracking of job site conditions as they happen. Information is entered in the field and sent directly to the office for review. With field reports you can track weather conditions, labor, equipment and material usage, events such as accidents or safety violations, visitor and subcontract activity, and more. Field reports can be printed at any time for the project manager or anybody else who may be researching project information or heading out to the job site.

Easy To Use
Project Management workflow has been designed to follow the typical workflow used by project managers. The software is easy to learn because electronic documents mirror the many paper documents used by project managers. The many defaults preset in Project Manager help you to complete work quickly.

Sage Timberline Office Project Management is packed with all these and a lot more easy-to-use yet powerful features. Call Integrated Computer Systems Support at 425-820-6120 for more information on how your business can get the most mileage from this great tool.