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Project Management

Project Management
Project Management is the art of creating the illusion that any
outcome is the result of a series of predetermined, deliberate acts
when, in fact, it was dumb luck. Harold Kerzner

Project Management
The statement in the previous
slide was given by the father of
project management.
According to a survey 80
percent of the projects fail
worldwide in terms of meeting
the allotted budget and time.

NFRA

A successful project (on the basis of project management and not

revenue generation) is still a dream of majority of companies and this
dream can be made into reality with the help of NFRA.
Project planning is a essential and demanding activity in the
management and execution of construction projects. Project Planning
Scheduling and Management is in-build tool in eresource nfra. Before
the Project planning is generated, eresource allows you to create
your project calendar by inputting complete information of client and
their requirement. You can also set the start and end date.
This project management module of NFRA allows you to keep a
record of all the activities being undertaken in the project along with
the cost and time.

START UP
This page provides user with the
overview of all the portals that
can be handled by project
management module of NFRA.
The 3 main sub sections of this
module are:
Project Management
Budgeting
PMC Report

Project creation
This section of module
provides with the general
details of the project.
Project name, expected start
and end date with details of
site in charge and warehouse
location
Name and address of the client
is also entered to keep him
updated of any situation or
newsletter.
Attachment tab allows one to
upload any relevant information
which one might need to refer
during project.
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Project calendar
Calendar keeps the record of start and end date (actual) of the project
and activities, along with time and working hours of the week.
Project Calendar : While Project automatically provides you with default
calendar settings (Monday through Friday, 8AM to 5PM), those defaults
might not be the right fit for your projects. Therefore, it is vital for
Project Calendar to enter things like holidays, typical working hours of
the project, or other organization-wide calendar items. When you enter
a holiday or a change to working times in a base calendar, those
changes are automatically reflected in all other calendars that use that
base calendar to create Project calendar..
Exception handling can also be easily through this so that the delays
can be managed properly.
It allows one to keep a list of holidays so that one can manage
accordingly.
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Project calendar

Plan creation
Creating a plan comes handy with NFRA, one can import the activities

from an existing plan or from an excel sheet. Project Planning: It is

universal law in the Project business that the critical factors for project
success is having a well-developed project plan. Project Plan allows you
to select Project Calendar and create Work Break-down activity of the
project, define Predecessors, start date, end-date of the activity. You
can also add Resources and associated information, like BOQ Items,
staffing requirements, machineries/equipment/tools.
Once the task are there planned, projected and actual date for dates

can be entered. Nfra also provides the checklist of materials against the
task being undertaken.

Plan Creation

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Onsite activity - Project progress

eresource is tightly
integrated with the SITE
ACTIVITIES. The site
engineers can update the
progress of the Project
against each Work Break
down activity.
Eresource NFRA gives the
project Team complete
visibility of the Project status
at the real time.

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Project configuration

This portal of the module helps user to easily keep a check on his Funds,
along with Bills, MRV and Indent.
In fund control one can define his CAPEX and a reserved amount against
the CAPEX, so whenever the reserved amount is reached user will get
the alerts and he\she can also configure the alerts in 4 different ways.

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Project configuration(contd.)
User can also view all of his bills through this portal and can decide
on basis of which area he wants the bill like om the basis of BOQ,
Design, Resources, etc.
The bills one wish to view can be on the basis of supply & installation
charges in one, or

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Material take off

Material take off(MTO) is a term used in engineering and construction,
and refers to a list ofmaterialswith quantities and types (such as
specific grades of steel) that are required to build a designed structure
or item.
It allows one to keep record of the new material required one, the
replaced one and even the removed one so that there is no data loss for
material.

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Material take off (contd.)

If any activity of the project is divided into different Work Areas, one
can add those areas from here and then the MTO is can be defined for
the concerned WA.
BOQ description, name, quantity, item name with provision of adding,
deleting or replacing any material is also provided.
User can also view the history of MTO for the concerned WA.

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Variation to contract
In between the execution
of project, there can be a
change in scope from the
user end or due to the
need of situation.
So to manage these
changes, variation to
contract comes handy for
the user.
One can import an BOQ
and make changes or can
do them manually too.

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Variation to contract(approval)
After the necessary changes
are made, it is sent to the
customer for approval with
the changes in no. of
quantities required with the
prices for the same.
Apart from adding
attachments required for the
changes, one can also select
different currencies(in case of
suppliers from different
region) with conversion rates,
to save any monetary losses.

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Work in progress report

The work in progress report provides all the information about any
project, with regard to its value. Value of project, expected budget of
project, gross profit, expenses, WIP and many mores.

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Project dashboard
This dashboard provides user
with the overall health of any
project.
On selection of any project, the
user can check wether the
project is on schedule, within
budget, WIP or all the
resources are available or not.
It provides one with the
percent completion of the
project and actual start and
end dates.

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Reports produced
Order vs Dispatch
Material Balanced Sheet
Project Health Card Report
Project Analysis Report
WIP Report
Project Dashboard
Many More

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Conclusion
There are many project management techniques like Prince2, PMI,
Agile and many more which are followed by the project managers.
But taking the best points of each management technique and
easing out the work for the owner in managing the project along
with the help of project manager, NFRA by eresource is the solution.
Without taking classes of project management, NFRA allows you to
be a professional, efficient and effective project manager.
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