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Worries of Managing a Project:

How to Maintain and Analyze Project Profitability?
Will
Project Come Under Budget?
How
to Gain Total Control On Time and Costs by Analyzing Real
Time Information?
How
to Maintain Project Cash Flow?
Flexible Application Integration
and User-Friendly Interface
Arcotect? Project Cost
Management (Arcotect? PCM) is highly suitable for project-based
enterprises including main contractor and sub-contractors
of construction firms, engineering firms as well as professional
firms. Arcotect? PCM enables you to manage, organize and
monitor a number of decentralized operations and achieve
the best performance at minimal resources.
Arcotect? PCM communicates with users through user-friendly
web browser interface that greatly shorten user learning
cycle. You will be able to familiarize with the system within
a short period of time.
The development of Arcotect?
PCM is based on XML technology that standardizes document
structure of all XML-compliant applications, enabling the
convenient exchange of information among Arcotect? PCM,
your legacy systems and other applications.
Arcotect? PCM could be flexibly integrated with other enterprise
applications such as Human Capital Management System (HCM),
Document Management System (DMS), Distribution Resource
Planning System (DRP), Customer Relationship Management
System (CRM), Enterprise Information Portal (EIP), Financial
Management System, Storefront, and Digital Network Alert
(DNA), etc. The integrations minimize redundant data entry,
facilitate data interchange among applications, enable real
time analysis on data across various enterprise applications,
maximize enterprise productivity and efficiency, and empower
you to manage project and collaborate with your colleagues
effectively.
System Design
Arcotect? PCM is designed
to provide project managers and management executives with
comprehensive functions such that they will gain full control
of project spending and improve project cost management
with sophisticated cost tracking analysis. It also provides
an easy-to-use and efficient method to create and manage
project budgets at various levels of details. To receive
an alert before your project falls out of bounds, maintain
cash flow, simplify labor and expense collections, and manage
projects proactively with substantial multi-dimensional
analysis, Arcotect? PCM is the right tool for you.
As a professional enterprise in construction, engineering,
manufacturing and professional service organizations in
Hong Kong and Southern China, you definitely need Arcotect?
PCM, an intelligent and professional business software package,
to fulfill your specific requirements.
With Arcotect? PCM, you
can obtain various intelligent analysis reports based on
real time and accurate information that facilitates quality
management decision making.
Total Budgetary Control:
Margins, Billing Issues and Costs
Various modules of Arcotect?
PCM facilitate proactive management of margins, costs, budgets,
billing issues, labor and expense collections. With its
flexibility to integrate with enterprise applications and
legacy systems, Arcotect? PCM ensures data integrity and
high efficiency of the whole project management and payment
processes.

Master
File Maintenance
Project Maintenance (Flexible Project Phases and Sub-phases)
Contract (with Sub-contract) Maintenance
Customer Maintenance
Vendor Maintenance
Site Maintenance
Equipment/Resources Maintenance
Account Interface Maintenance
Costing Period Setup
Multi-Company/Currency
Budgetary
control
Budget Commitment Group
Project Budget Application
Budget Review and Approval
Application for Extra Budget by Change of Order
Project
Control
Project Profile and Configuration
Project Percentage of Complete and Profit Taken Setup
Project Commitment Status
Inquiry of Project Commitment Details
Project Summary and Transaction Details
Project Analysis
Closing Project with Various Handling Options
Billing
and Purchase Processes
Billing Quantity Item List
Billing System with Various Options
Purchase Requisition
Purchase Approval
PO Issuance
Suppliers Invoices Management
Application for Payment
Certification of Payment and Cost
Project Set up and
Integration
Project Initiation with Various Options
User-defined Transaction Cost Types and Codes
Time Sheet Management
Integration with Human Capital Management System
Integration with Document Management System
Comprehensive Standard Report formats and Flexible Reporting
Tool
Integration with General Ledger and Inventory Control
Integration with Purchase Order and Invoice Management
Cost Allocation by Project
Major System Flow of
Arcotect? PCM
Arcotect? PCM facilitates
you to manage and divide project into various phases and
sub-phases (tasks). You can link up every individual phase
or sub-phase of a project by defining their relationships
to form a multi-level tree structure. Consequently, you
could monitor the W.I.P. (work-in-progress) status of any
level by target start and end dates, or by project phases
or sub-phases. Arcotect? PCM maintains comprehensive individual
record of every level of phases and sub-phases including
their descriptions, values, related contracts and percentage
to project/phase completion.

Contract Maintenance
Arcotect? PCM¡¦s Contract
Maintenance is one of the major master files to keep track
of all information regarding every individual contract signed
with the customers and sub-contractors. Multiple contracts
for individual project or phase are supported. Users could
classify and run analysis on each contract conveniently
by indicating contracts with various types such as ¡§Tendering¡¨,
¡§Main¡¨ or ¡§Sub-contract¡¨. Contracts could also be classified
by the differentiation of various terms and conditions.
Project Maintenance
Project Maintenance allows
users to manage projects by project ID (supporting total
of 10 digits), and review total number of project contracts,
budget and retention amounts. Project type indicates whether
the project status is tendering, at the developer, main
or sub-contractor position. Status flag including ¡§active¡¨,
¡§completed¡¨ and ¡§work-in-progress¡¨ clearly indicates
project progress. Furthermore, Project Maintenance supports
management of multiple projects. Besides, it is a prime
module for setting up billing information, project ID and
integrating with Financial Management System (interface
with account code).

Sub-Contract Maintenance
Sub-contract maintenance
is especially designed for managing sub-contractors. Its
versatile functions and various report formats including
joint payee, re-opening of closed sub-contract, report list
and inquiry of sub-contracts are available. Arcotect? PCM
supports as many as 10 digits for both Contract & Sub-contract
ID Number.
Project Analysis
Quality management decision
demands thorough analysis based on real time information
from multiple dimensions. Arcotect? PCM¡¦s intelligent analysis
tool enables you to monitor project net profit and W.I.P.
net profit, compare budgeted with actual figures at different
level of percentage of project, phase or sub-phase completion.
Users could define the specific range of project, phase
or sub-phase to be studied such that either full or partial
project cost picture could be observed.
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ArcotectTM
PCM
ArcotectTM Project
Cost Management
v.1.1.01
System Requirements
Platform: Unix operating
system, Linux operating system or Windows NT/2000
Memory: 256M (Minimum)
Database: Oracle 8i, MS SQL
Java VM: Sun JDK 1.3 or JRE 1.3
Application Server: JBoss, Tomcat, Oracle 9i, Web
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