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Project manager
Nick understands that a project’s profitability sometimes depends on how
quickly he can make an informed decision.
Knowing how a job is performing comes
from experience, but experience is not
always enough to keep a project fully
under control. Nick can recognize what
a job’s status should be and whether or
not the project team is on track. He can
evaluate the state of the site and the
quality of the work, understand the team’s
capacity to finish what’s left, or keep on
top of the many daily reports. As a project
manager, he’s earned respect from his
employer and from his industry contacts.
But even the best project manager relies
on up-to-date project information to make
critical decisions fast, so an unexpected
event doesn’t undercut all the profits.

Real-time job status is the key.

Taking control made the difference.

Before implementing Sage 100
Contractor, Nick couldn’t see the current
job status picture. Too often, what he
needed was available too late. For
example, if productivity deteriorated, it
may not be caught for a week or more.
Taking time to pencil out financially where
things stood was difficult and definitely
could not be done on a daily basis.
Besides the lag in labor cost reporting,
Nick often found an invoice not coded to
the proper job, skewing the numbers. Or
a missing change order not approved in
time, slowing down the project. Worse,
the guys on the site would choose to go
ahead with an unapproved change order
to keep production moving, but doing so
would put billable work at risk.

On the first new project using Sage 100
Contractor, Nick found he was really in
control in a way he’d never experienced.
He could view job progress reports by
easily clicking on a screen, and, if any costs
looked questionable, he could drill down for
more details. With everyone working within
one system fitted to their construction
processes, the office is now able to keep
up with quickly inputting change orders,
paying new invoices, managing payroll,
tracking labor costs, and entering other jobrelated costs in real time. The result: greater
confidence in knowing exactly where the
project stands at any given moment. Now,
Nick has the visibility h