Project management software in the electrical industry

To ensure that all components are available at the right time in tightly timed product development cycles and the dynamic development of the entire electrical industry, it is not only the internal organization that is crucial, but above all the complex network of relationships with a network of different suppliers and customers. With Projektron BCS, you make all information available centrally and up-to-date for all stakeholders by creating a perfect image of your internal organization and your external relationships and making any information available at the right place.

	You plan your projects in Projektron BCS according to your individual project management guidelines. BCS supports agile and hybrid methods in addition to classic project management standards (waterfall model, GPM/IPMA, PMI, V model PRINCE2). Once you have created a project, you can save it as a template and use it as a standard for future planning.
	You map your processes in BCS with integrated workflows and checklists or with the BPMN module for business process modeling. You can flexibly define and automate processes for all your project and business activities, for example complex inspection processes, production processes, invoice works, procurement and purchasing processes or even release processes for vacation requests, etc. BCS informs each person responsible for a process step what they have to do and by when.
	You manage your customers, suppliers, service providers and contacts centrally with the CRM function of Projektron BCS. Once created, the communication history for each stakeholder is stored here, and contracts, offers, invoices, documents, data on joint projects and appointments are linked to the respective person or higher-level organization and made centrally accessible.
	Your internal organization is completely mirrored in BCS, both the organizational structure of your company with all locations and the project organization. Employee information is stored in digital personnel files with function, skills, areas of responsibility, departmental affiliation, working time model, payroll information and vacation management and made available for resource planning.
	Your assets, means of production, machines and other inventory items are also recorded in BCS, linked to associated contracts and documents and can thus be scheduled as material resources in projects.
	You centralize your communication with BCS. You can import and record any task in BCS using the mail import and CTI interfaces. With project tickets, you can assign specific tasks and collaborate across locations worldwide thanks to the multi-language capability. All communication of ticket agents and representatives as well as the recording of working hours on tickets flow into the superordinate project. You can use the full functionality of tasks, tickets, workflows with checklists and deadlines in BCS to support the planning of your external project communication. This allows you to plan project communication as an integral part of the entire project from the very beginning. Through the guest licenses, which can be flexibly defined by means of detailed rights assignment, you can include external stakeholders and give them a direct insight into the project progress or even grant them a say regarding certain views and aspects.
	You upload your documents directly to tasks or appointments. Documents are stored in a uniform filing structure so that they can be found again. Authorized employees always have access to relevant information from anywhere. Team collaboration is facilitated because all members have access to the latest document version and changes are traceable. There are no more duplicates or outdated versions of documents. Search and filter functions facilitate knowledge transfer and research.
	Not only do you organize and manage your contracts in BCS, but you get a powerful tool for your entire contract lifecycle management (CLM). Link your contracts to people, organizations, tasks, workflows, project groups, projects, items in your inventory, offers, invoices or other contracts, or integrate them easily into work and approval processes. Use the integrated contract generator to create new contracts according to your individual requirements.
	Projektron BCS can meet your individual requirements in terms of functional scope, mapping of your business logic and corporate language, right through to corporate design, by means of high-level customizing options.

Efficient communication processes and the immediate availability of all relevant information and materials are the keys to keeping development and production costs as low as possible in your company in the electronics industry and reliably meeting deadlines in your product development cycles. Projektron BCS is your central platform on which all this information flows together and is intelligently networked.

Projektron BCS is a tool that supports you throughout the entire project lifecycle, regardless of the method or standard used. BCS not only offers support for classic methods such as PRINCE2, GPM/IPMA or PMI as well as agile methods such as Scrum, but also all the necessary tools, functions and wizards to apply hybrid project management methods and industry-specific standards such as V-Scrum. BCS supports you with high flexibility and maximum customizability to map your individual project management requirements.

With the help of BCS you can get informative schedule and deployment plan overviews for research, development, investment projects in the electrical industry. BCS supports project managers in all phases of the project, from initiation and planning to controlling and closing. You can generate project proposals from ideas, compare them, and use BCS' PPM tool to compile project portfolios on different focus areas to decide which projects to implement.

BCS' multi-project controlling helps you keep track of all projects with their current status and resource utilization. With project-specific and cross-project evaluations, you can analyze not only planned and actual values, but also the remaining effort estimated by the individual project teams. The project team documents all efforts continuously and directly on the project and makes them available for invoicing at any time.

Projektron BCS is a web-based project management software that enables your company's development or production teams in the electrical engineering and electronics industry to collaborate efficiently, regardless of location. Through integrated collaboration tools and central access to projects and documents, the software enables seamless connection of all project participants on one platform.

This collaboration is internationally barrier-free, as the system supports multiple languages and currencies. This allows teams in different countries to use their preferred language and currency; for example, your German site can work in German and bill in euros, while your development service provider in Budapest uses the Hungarian user interface and currency. Projektron BCS offers a total of ten different language versions.

Using a simple web browser, your employees can access Projektron BCS from anywhere. Thanks to browser-based access, a suitable license structure and detailed rights management, not only internal teams from different development and production locations, but also customers and external project staff can be actively involved in project work. Project participants with the appropriate rights can access the same central database regardless of location and keep track of tasks, deadlines and schedules.

The integration of your customers creates transparency and informs them about the current status of the project work as well as resources, efforts and costs. Direct communication via BCS can accelerate approval processes and lead to trusting teamwork, which in turn saves time and money for everyone involved.

Ticket system in BCS - Versatile for task assignment and external communication

The ticket system in Projektron BCS opens up several options at once:

	Customer communication and communication with external service providers and project participants
	Internal task allocation and work organization within the scope of project tasks and line activities (Kanban board)
	Flexible task- and project-related effort recording for precise billing
	Exchange and documentation of communication within the scope of collaboration (also across locations)
	Change managementvia open items and tickets in which you escalate releases and changes directly to the steering committee.

Not only can you document your entire communication process on a ticket and attach documents required for processing a task, but you can also directly record the processing effort.

Quality management: sources of error dry up

With Projektron BCS, you can easily check your quality management through a variety of evaluation options and the use of the ticket system and gain important information, such as identifying frequently occurring product errors. Standardized checklists enable you to map known error sources and efficiently support your employees in improving quality. Projektron BCS offers proven inspection methods at numerous points, such as in projects, tasks, workflow steps and milestones.

Quality management plays an important role, especially for ISO 9001 certified companies, for which Projektron BCS templates, checklists and workflows provide efficient support. The program can be flexibly adapted to your company's processes and workflows.

By documenting the course of the project in Projektron BCS, you can easily and quickly save valuable experiences in the appropriate remark fields. In this way, you can already contribute to well-founded process analyses during project work and promote continuous quality improvement.

Product management with BCS

In the "Products" workspace of Projektron BCS, you can organize your products in a hierarchical structure of product structure elements. This hierarchy can be as deep as you like and is visualized by a graphical network diagram. The hierarchy includes related products by predecessor-successor relationships and represents them by hierarchies. In addition, custom relations can be represented. If you click on a product, you can open a detailed view in which the predecessor-successor relationships are even more clearly visible.

When collaborating with external business partners, your company in the electrical industry 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 secure the trust of your clients and customers.

Would you like reports that are precisely tailored to your company? Thanks to the interface to the open source report designer BIRT, you can design completely individual reports. You want to provide your customers with regular reports? You can create project status reports with statements on the current production status, the stability and quality of the project results, risk assessment and deviations from the original planning at the push of a button using the reporting function in BCS. You can do this efficiently using report orders with an integrated e-mail function: In the ergonomic wizard, you create all the required information on the report, output interval and recipient once, and Projektron BCS takes care of everything else for you automatically.

Projektron BCS offers your company in the electrical industry the opportunity to model your individual production, sales and business processes with the BPMN process designer. 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 about the processes within your company 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 use cases for BPMN processes are:

complex verification processes

invoice workflows

procurement processes/purchasing processes

approval processes with approval workflow (vacation request, request for business trip, home office, time off compensation, expense reimbursement, etc.)

Projektron BCS supports business process management with the BPMN Designer, with which you can design, model, execute, monitor, document, evaluate and optimize processes. In the process, often repetitive business processes and workflows can be automated. The BPMN Designer enables every employee to keep track of when they need to complete which task and how they contribute to the overall goal.