Project management software for the automotive industry
More drive in your projects - Projektron BCS as project management software for automotive and automotive industry
New technological trends and drive technologies such as connectivity, sustainability, autonomous driving, decarbonization, mobility-as-a-service and electrification are leading to a profound change in the automotive industry that affects all production areas and the entire supplier industry. With Projektron BCS, you can plan and control the diverse and demanding projects in the automotive environment according to Automotive SPICE and other methods and use the diverse ERP functions to optimize your business processes. Projektron GmbH follows the information security questionnaire of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA ISA). The audit was carried out by the TISAX audit service provider TÜV SÜD Management Service GmbH.
What if your project management software...
➤ flexibly adapts to your methods and PM guide?
➤ creates clear structures and clarity in complex multi-project management?
➤ enables you to react to resource bottlenecks at an early stage?
➤ actively supports you in scheduling and personnel resource planning?
➤ enabled you to make continuous process improvements?
➤ provides you with reliable target/actual analyses and real-time project data at the push of a button?
➤ centralizes your entire project communication on one platform?
➤ manages all your employees, resources, inventory items, suppliers, and customers?
➤ made collaboration with your customers more transparent and effective?
➤ lets you design your own controlling evaluations and reports?
➤ map the entire order process from quotation to invoicing?
➤ helps you to ensure your process and quality standards on a data basis?
"Depending on the project and customer requirements, we develop according to the V-model, Scrum or a mixture of both. Without Projektron BCS as a powerful and open-method project management software, the current project flow would not be feasible. Internally, we also maintain a project management manual as a guideline for our project management activities. We have already been able to automate very many of the processes recorded there thanks to BCS."
Jörg Klenke
Project Management & PMO, Systemtechnik LEBER GmbH & Co. KG, Schwaig
"For the development of our software products, we rely on agile project management according to Scrum. Since we also do classic project management in other areas, we were looking for a tool that helps us manage our projects and supports both approaches. We also wanted to link our customer data, including a ticket system for our customer support, to the projects. The simultaneous use of Projektron BCS for development and commercial processes offers us specific advantages for Model Engineering Solutions."
Dr. Hartmut Pohlheim
Managing Director, Model Engineering Solutions GmbH, Berlin
Projektron BCS - Project management software for the automotive industry
Projektron BCS has won several awards as ERP system of the year and also received the Process Solution Award. The awards not only recognized the diverse and open-method project management functions, but also the focus on process automation. BCS supports companies in the automotive industry in the digitalization and automation of internal and external business processes. Projektron GmbH follows the information security questionnaire of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA ISA). The assessment was conducted by a TISAX audit provider.
Meeting deadlines, reducing costs, creating synergies, achieving project and company goals - with Projektron BCS in the automotive and automotive industry.
Open methods, flexible and adaptable
PRINCE2®, Waterfall, Scrum, Automotive SPICE®, V-Model etc
Supports hybrid project management methods
Mapping of your project management guideline and role concept
Fine-grained rights concept according to your organizational structure
Customizable: highly adaptable to your own requirements
Freely designable templates, Reports and evaluations
Individual dashboards with personal task overviews
Seamless integration into your existing software environment
Various interfaces (e.g. Jira, SAP, DATEV, Exchange)
Efficiency and quality: processes optimally supported
Freely definable workflows and processes according to BPMN 2.0
Quality assurance: Templates, checklists, quality gates
Processes and workflows for verification & validation of your products
Processes for planned, standard-compliant development execution
Quotation and invoice generator with dispatch directly from BCS
Document storage: store design data centrally and securely
Contract management and inventory management
CRM: contacts & communication (customers, suppliers, service prvd.)
Qualitative & quantitative evaluation measures for goals freely definable
Project management and resource planning: Achieving goals
Wizard-supported project planning according to various methods
Project planning according to the critical path method
Visual time and Resource planning in the interactive Gantt chart
Forward-looking resource and personnel planning
Project preparation with risk management and target definition
Multi-project- and portfolio management for full overview
Project controlling: graph. analyses, earned value analysis, forecasts
Vacation management: resource planning takes absence into account
Time recording: task, customer, project related recording of efforts
Ticket system - teamwork, task assignment, communication
Web-based software: location-independent collaboration
Worldwide collaboration (multi-language & multi-currency)
Reduces coordination and organization effort with external parties
Effort recording directly on the ticket with task & project assignment
Documented processing and communication history
Ticket view in Kanban board with drag-and-drop operation
Linkable with Scrum elementes: customer ticket becomes user story
Internal tickets: task allocation, change requests and much more
Guarantee service quality: Transparent service and response times
You would like to get to know BCS as software for the automotive industry better? Take part in our free demo presentation now and start your non-binding test!
Why is BCS the ideal software for the automotive industry?
Projektron BCS is the ultimate project management software for companies in the automotive and automotive industry including automotive suppliers of any kind:
Drive Technology Exterior equipment/design Sealing technology Electrics
Chassis Interior equipment/design Vehicle construction (cars, trucks, buses, other commercial vehicles)
Bodywork Engines Multimedia (navigation, consumer electronics, telecommunications)
Safety Control units Component supply
What was important to the managers of these companies in the automotive industry when selecting project management software, how do they effectively use Projektron BCS to improve their project management and business processes, and why do they still rely on the web-based project management and business coordination software today?
"If you are not only looking for a powerful project management tool, but also an integrated solution for a wide range of company departments and use cases, you are really in good hands with Projektron BCS. The holistic view in company processes and solutions is commendable, thus isolated solutions are avoided. This positive aspect is complemented by a high level of customizing."
Thomas Hackenbuchner
Head of Finance & Administration, MicroNova AG, Vierkirchen
"We use Projektron BCS software throughout the entire project lifecycle, starting with the pre-project phase, followed by bidding and project processing, and ending with invoicing. In project processing, we use different tools in BCS depending on the project complexity. In any case, time or activity recording is a central component in every project. Therefore, we use BCS consistently in all our projects."
Franz Essl
IT Administrator, Bitter GmbH, Sierning, Austria
"Projektron BCS covers our wide spectrum. Since we have been implementing our project work with BCS, project management is perceived differently in our company. Scheduling, hourly billing, task assignment and team scheduling are just a few important functions that make working together more transparent. In the weekly project manager meeting, BCS has become the measure of all things."
Mirko Wittek
Senior Manager Business Applications and Processes, Leadec Automation & Engineering GmbH, Hoyerswerda
"Thanks to the effort tracking, BCS is an excellent tool for our PMO to budget both external and internal tasks. It also gives an overview at any time of how much effort goes into which tasks. During the course of the project, employees regularly compare the actual and remaining effort with the planned effort. In this way, any need for action is identified at an early stage and those responsible can seek discussions with the customer to identify the causes of any additional effort and take appropriate countermeasures accordingly."
Jörg Klenke
Project Management & PMO, Systemtechnik LEBER GmbH & Co. KG, Schwaig
First-hand experience:
User reports from companies in the automotive industry that have been successful with Projektron BCS for years
The advantages of Projektron BCS as software in the automotive industry
All information centrally available
"We were particularly impressed by the software's ergonomics, which we hoped would lead to high user acceptance, and by the browser-based approach, thanks to which local installation at individual workstations is no longer necessary. The options for individual customizing also weighed heavily in our decision, because BCS allows us to map our own organization without having to make any compromises."
Christian Schmelzing
Senior Manager Production and Assembly, ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Schweinfurt
"Projektron BCS supports the standardized project processes at our company, for example in project planning in our product development. Particularly important to us are the automatic numbering and project name compilation as well as standardized templates. Among other things, this ensures quality in recurring projects. We also successfully rely on Projektron BCS in project portfolio management and budget and resource planning."
Normen Schlauer
Project Manager, Matzen & Timm GmbH, Norderstedt
Think and plan projects holistically
Projektron BCS supports you in all phases of the project lifecycle - no matter which method or standard you use to plan and implement your projects. In addition to classic methods such as PRINCE2, GPM/IPMA or PMI and agile methods such as Scrum, BCS also offers all the necessary tools, functions and wizards to apply hybrid project management methods and industry-specific standards such as Automotive SPICE. Thanks to its high flexibility and maximum customizability, you can also have appropriate configurations made to meet your own project management requirements. With BCS, you can thus map your individual project management guide.
With informative overviews of timelines and deployment plans, you can efficiently handle research and development projects as well as investment projects in the automotive industry in Projektron BCS. Projektron BCS supports project managers right from the initiation and planning of the project through to controlling and completion.
With the lean project portfolio management (PPM) of Projektron BCS, you generate project proposals from project ideas and compare them. With the PPM tool in Projektron BCS, you also compile portfolios for different focal points and decide which projects you actually want to implement.
In multi-project controlling, BCS helps you with the multi-project board to keep a constant eye on all projects with their current status and resource utilization. With Projektron BCS, managers have an overview of all the projects relevant to them, their most important key figures, and any missed deadlines. Thus, the cross-project evaluations not only show planned and actual values, but also the remaining effort estimated by the individual project teams.
All efforts are documented by the project team on an ongoing basis and directly on the project and are available for invoicing at any time.
"Thanks to the effort tracking, BCS is an excellent tool for our PMO to budget both external and internal tasks. It also gives an overview at any time of how much effort goes into which tasks. During the course of the project, employees regularly compare the actual and remaining effort with the planned effort. In this way, any need for action is identified at an early stage and those responsible can seek discussions with the customer to identify the causes of any additional effort and take appropriate countermeasures accordingly."
Jörg Klenke
Project Management & PMO, Systemtechnik LEBER GmbH & Co. KG, Schwaig
"We develop and produce software, hardware and mechanics according to automotive standards and norms such as IATF or Automotive SPICE. In addition to the standard views in Projektron BCS, some views were created at our request."
Nicole Baumann
Project Management Excellence, Kendrion Automotive Group
Product management with BCS
You manage products in a hierarchical structure of product structure elements in the Products workspace in Projektron BCS. The hierarchical structure can be as deep as you like. The graphical network diagram in Projektron BCS provides an overview of related products, with blue arrows symbolizing a predecessor-successor relationship and gray arrows representing the hierarchy. In addition, it is possible to display your own relations. By clicking on a product, it can be viewed in more detail. The predecessor-successor relationship is displayed even more clearly.
"Projektron BCS supports us in every step of the product development process. From quotation costing to invoicing, as well as in our personnel management."
Karl Helmut Landgraf
Managing Partner, Bitter GmbH, Sierning, Österreich
Transparent performance: Reports
When collaborating with external stakeholders, your automotive company benefits from the customizable reports you can create in Projektron BCS: A project preparation report, for example, creates a common project understanding, while effort reports on projects and tickets increase transparency and ensure the trust of all project participants and stakeholders.
Want reports tailored exactly to your organization? Thanks to the interface to the open source report designer BIRT, you can design completely individual reports. Do you want to provide regular reports to different stakeholders? You can do this efficiently using report orders with an integrated e-mail function: In the ergonomic wizard, you create all the necessary information about the report, output interval and recipient once, and Projektron BCS takes care of everything else for you automatically.
"Projektron BCS covers our wide spectrum. Since we have been implementing our project work with BCS, project management is perceived differently in our company. Scheduling, hourly billing, task assignment and team scheduling are just a few important functions that make working together more transparent. In the weekly project manager meeting, BCS has become the measure of all things."
Mirko Wittek
Senior Manager Business Applications and Processes, Leadec Automation & Engineering GmbH, Hoyerswerda
Processes for more efficiency and quality
Runs by itself and always better: Automate and optimize processes
With the BPMN process designer, Projektron BCS offers your automotive company the possibility to model your individual sales processes, consulting processes and any other business processes. As an internationally recognized notation standard, BPMN is a central component of business process management and enables you to visualize and optimize your business processes and workflows. Furthermore, it creates more transparency within your company in the automotive industry and towards potential customers.
BPMN processes enable you to assign tasks in a transparent and clearly defined manner in teamwork and in collaboration across departmental boundaries, hierarchical levels and locations.
Typical application cases and use cases for BPMN processes are:
complex verification processes
invoicing workflows
procurement processes/purchasing processes
approval processes with approval workflow (vacation request, request for business trip, home office, time off compensation, expense reimbursement, etc.)
The BPMN Designer enables you not only to design and model processes within Projektron BCS, but also to execute, monitor, document, evaluate and optimize them. Projektron BCS thus supports your business process management and automates the execution of frequently repeated business processes and workflows. Every employee knows immediately when and by when they have to do exactly what and to which goal they are contributing.
"We have strongly standardized the procedure for creating our offers and often work with our own project templates. Program managers create the master data as a project in request status and assign a project manager. The customer then receives an e-mail generated from BCS as a request confirmation. The project manager creates and sends a quote via BCS. When the customer orders the project, effort and structure planning begins with a fixed end date.
The project manager plans tasks and deadlines bottom-up and documents the progress in BCS during the project. Checklists help to comply with quality assurance requirements. After project completion, the findings flow into the templates as lessons learned and complete them with the effect of becoming increasingly error-proof."
Christian Schmelzing
Senior Manager Production and Assembly, ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Schweinfurt
Quality management: sources of error dry up
Projektron BCS supports you in checking your quality management measures with a wide range of evaluation options. If you use the ticket system from Projektron BCS, you can easily gain important information for your quality management - for example, about frequent product errors.
Thought of everything? With standardized checklists, you map known error sources and support your employees in efficiently improving quality. Projects, tasks, workflow steps and milestones: In Projektron BCS, you benefit from the proven testing method at numerous points.
Whether in tasks, workflows or projects - you can save your valuable experience quickly and easily in the appropriate comments fields for future work. The course of the project can be efficiently documented in Projektron BCS. This allows you to contribute to well-founded process analyses already during the project work and to promote continuous quality improvement.
"BCS also supports MicroNova in the processes around quality and information security management. In the former area, the company uses BCS to determine quality metrics through the use of raw data. These include compliance with process specifications, budgets and deadlines as well as measuring customer satisfaction, as well as obtaining defined quality gates."
Thomas Hackenbuchner
Head of Finance & Administration, MicroNova AG, Vierkirchen
Collabortion without limits
With the web-based project management software Projektron BCS, your development or production teams can work together efficiently at different locations. Thanks to integrated collaboration tools and central access to projects and documents, you unite all project participants on one platform. Projektron BCS is also ideally equipped for international collaboration. The system supports multiple languages and currencies, so your German site can work in German and bill in euros, while your development service provider in Budapest can use the Hungarian user interface and currency. Even your supplier in China can communicate in Chinese and bill in Chinese Yuan, which is automatically converted by BCS. A total of ten different language versions are available in Projektron BCS.
Your employees can easily access Projektron BCS from anywhere via a web browser. However, not only your internal teams, but also your customers and external project staff can be actively involved thanks to browser-based access, a suitable license structure and detailed rights management. Project participants with the appropriate rights can access the same central database regardless of their location and keep track of tasks, deadlines and dates.
By integrating your customers, you create transparency. Your customers are not only informed about the current status of the project work, but also about resources, efforts and costs. Approval processes can be accelerated through direct communication via BCS. Trustful teamwork as well as time and cost savings have a positive effect on all parties involved.
"Not only during project execution and for internal project controlling BCS provides more transparency, but already during the planning phase towards the customer: Even the first rough planning can be shared with the customer via BCS. In this way, the entire procedure and also the estimated efforts and budgets become more comprehensible for our customers. If a customer also wants regular insight into the status of project progress and bookings during project implementation, this is no problem at all. Particularly with regard to this transparency towards the customer, I can expressly recommend Projektron BCS to other companies in our industry for project management."
Jörg Klenke
Project Management & PMO, Systemtechnik LEBER GmbH & Co. KG, Schwaig
"Looking back, we can say that choosing Projektron BCS was the right decision for our company. For us as a project-oriented technical service provider, BCS is the optimal tool to successfully implement demanding design and development projects for or together with our customers. Our internal activities and processes are optimally supported and our company's further growth is facilitated."
Franz Essl
IT Administrator, Bitter GmbH, Sierning, Austria
"For change management, we have used the ticket system to define a workflow that covers various process steps from the change analysis to the decision to the implementation of the change. The functionalities of the ticket system are very helpful in ensuring a smooth and complete process flow."
Nicole Baumann
Project Management Excellence, Kendrion Automotive Group
Tickets for Scrum
If you work with the ticket system from Projektron BCS, you can easily transfer internal inquiries and customer requests for your products into your Scrum projects.
For example, if a customer requests a new function via ticket, you can create the associated user story in the Scrum software with just a few clicks and add it to a product backlog. The ticket description can be easily adopted for user stories and activities. Projektron BCS links the new user story to the original ticket, making it easy to trace the background of its creation, for example when prioritizing the product backlog.
In addition, tickets can be linked to existing user stories, epics or partial requirements.
"Initially, we introduced Projektron BCS in July 2012 with a focus on software development according to Scrum. We focused on a pilot project and were advised by Projektron support on the initial setup of a Scrum project. In the role of the product owner, one is supported by an intuitive wizard when planning the sprints, such as team planning, effort distribution and setting meetings. The product backlog in BCS allows us to manage and prioritize the epics, user stories and acceptance tests in a very clear and structured way. This means that the current project status can be viewed centrally and transparently and forms the basis for discussions with stakeholders as well as estimation meetings with the team."
Dr. Hartmut Pohlheim
Managing Director, Model Engineering Solutions GmbH, Berlin
TISAX® result: highest safety standards
The ENX Association supports with TISAX (Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange) on behalf of VDA the common acceptance of Information Security Assessments in the automotive industry. The TISAX Assessments are conducted by accredited audit providers that demonstrate their qualification at regular intervals. TISAX and TISAX results are not intended for general public.
For Projektron GmbH confidentiality, availability and integrity of information have great value. We have taken extensive measures on protection of sensitive and confidential information. Therefore, we follow the question catalogue of information security of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA ISA). The Assessment was conducted by an audit provider, in this case the TISAX audit provider TÜV SÜD Management Service GmbH. The result is exclusively retrievable over the ENX Portal.
BCS in a license purchase or SaaS model - the choice is yours!
Projektron BCS is the central tool for your automotive company that supports all important work processes from offer to invoice. BCS is not only focused on pure project work, but is optimized as business coordination software for the development and optimization of your entire business processes. BCS is individually scalable and can be easily adapted to your requirements thanks to versatile customizing options.
The modular structure of Projektron BCS allows you to put together your individual ERP system for your company in the automotive industry step by step. You only pay for the functions that you really need and use. Your system always remains updateable and flexible, so that you can map expansions quickly and easily.
You have the free choice between the on-premise and der SaaS (Cloud) variants of BCS. Projektron BCS has been developed by Projektron GmbH in Berlin since 2001. With four new releases per year, you will always be up to date. As a German provider, we host your data in Germany according to the highest data protection and security standards. Start now with Projektron BCS in automotive and automotive industry and achieve your project and business goals around car, vehicle and single component!
"BCS was able to convince us with its focus on projects, the best coverage of our requirements, the good price-performance ratio and the modern web interface. After the decision, we planned the implementation together with Projektron. Several joint workshops were held to define the configuration, specify necessary adjustments and plan the transfer of inventory data. Here, we had a competent and committed technical account manager from Projektron at our side, who helped us to set up BCS in the best possible way for our requirements."
Franz Essl
IT Administrator, Bitter GmbH, Sierning, Austria
"In the BIRT report designer, our project management team - after appropriate training by Projektron - also designed its own project profile and project status report. Furthermore, Systemtechnik LEBER has had additional controlling evaluations programmed by Projektron - for evaluating the rate of paid hours of our employees. In addition, our project management team has created various checklists for the area of occupational safety as well as for the various quality gates in the projects."
Jörg Klenke
Project Management & PMO, Systemtechnik LEBER GmbH & Co. KG, Schwaig
"Before deciding on project management software, we compared various solutions. Projektron BCS proved to be the one that best met our requirements - and offered a very attractive price-performance ratio."
Dr. Sven Kleiner
Management Board, :em engineering methods AG, Darmstadt
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Learn more about software selection and software implementation
If your automotive company is about to select project management software, you probably don't know where to start looking for the right PM tool for you. The jungle of international and national providers, software and tools may seem deep and impenetrable at first. This guide paves your way phase by phase through the project management software market, provides managers and project managers with a plan and accompanies you in nine steps to the right decision for a project management software that suits your company in the automotive industry.
Get an overview in a simple way: We compare 13 of the most popular and best project management software solutions. Are you looking for a project management software for your requirements in the automotive industry, a functional giant for your project management method or a project management software well suited for various tasks in multi-project management? Start here on site, discover the market and compare BCS with factro, Wrike, Openproject, awork, InLoox, Trello, Asana, Jira, Monday and other PM tools.
Implementing enterprise software in the automotive industry is a complex task for managers and team alike. The purpose of a software rollout is to successfully implement a new software, such as a project management tool, to improve business results, increase efficiency and productivity. What are the implementation strategies? Which strategy is suitable for which situation and for which purpose? What factors influence which strategy is the right one? With this knowledge, you as the person responsible for project management in the automotive industry will lead your software project to success.
