Abergeldie group of companies was established to provide complex civil infrastructure and building contracts throughout eastern Australia. Since then it has developed an impressive track record of projects across a range of infrastructure including dams, bridges and marine, rail, electrical, process and mining.
Abergeldie was using a popular small business financial package and a mix of office productivity applications. Project managers created spreadsheets and databases to manage costs, billing and invoice data relating to each project. Purchase orders were issued manually and later matched to invoices that would first be received at Abergeldie’s head office before being forwarded via mail to the project site for project manager approval.
With anywhere between 30 and 50 projects being undertaken at any given time, Abergeldie’s systems were contributing to an increasing administrative overhead. Management could see that the more the company grew, the less efficient the systems would become. To circumvent problems it was decided to deploy a new enterprise wide system capable of supporting Abergeldie’s anticipated growth; one that would facilitate the introduction of – and adherence to – standardised processes; and which offered a way of achieving operational and process efficiencies. Abergeldie selected a solution designed by Professional Advantage involving Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and WennSoft job costing, project management and equipment management software.
