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procurement works order, certi cate and Tell us of the role played by your so ware in bringing time cost and time overruns in
payment process, allowing the sharing of projects with examples from some projects?
full information between operations and Candy provides the industry’s most e ective link between Budgeted Cost and Time (using INTERACTION
finance. CCS systems address the daily interactive Estimating & Planning), Candy will produce a detailed Cost, Activity and
challenges of a construction business in a Time project model. e cost and time savings are a direct result of what we call “Upfront
unique way. control of costs”, i.e. control the costs before you spend not try a er you’ve already spent.
“ e Candy ‘shopping list’ changes business parameters and adds a whole new dimension,
What are the USP’s of your products giving the client complete control of what they purchase.
Vis-à-vis competition? e system restricts and red ags di erences between tender and actual requirements and
First and foremost, CCS products are once a full measure has been carried out a er the engineering phase of works has been
designed and developed from the bottom completed, there is little room for error when procuring materials and issuing allowable
up for the construction industry by amounts to the contract teams or sub-contractors. It has been well established that by
construction industry professionals. So, implementing and utilising both BuildSmart and Candy, it is possible to have systems that
from Construction Computer So ware’s control all of the processes from the estimation sheet to the nal deliverable. Because this
humble beginnings, our direction has Candy model is built up from the most basic resources, individual resources budgets can
always been to service the construction be sent directly to BuildSmart to allow resource procurement with complete accuracy and
industry needs with technology, rather than e ective control of both quantities and buying rates providing an UPSTREAM control
produce a generic so ware package. In other on the spend. Unless the control is in place at the procurement stage, the margin cannot
words, the company emphasis is on people be protected and this is where costs are controlled and money is saved.
and their tasks-at-hand, not technology for BuildSmart will then manage the complete Procure to Pay cycle and report ALL project
its own sake. costs in the same Cost and Activity matrix used in Candy to allow a one to one match
between budget and actual for all resources. Used together, BuildSmart Cost Management
Which are the important projects with and Candy Estimating and Project Control uniquely tie the nancial processes to the
which your so ware has been associated physical processes of your enterprise construction projects. is means that an accurate
with and name your major clients? and Real-time appraisal is presented of each construction project of your enterprise.
Some of our major client partnerships Candy and BuildSmart together provide the most powerful tool in the construction
in India include Tata Projects, ITD industry today to provide critical real-time management information to you to take timely
Cementation, AFCONS, L&T, Patel management actions to control your project cost and to increase your margins. Separately,
Engineering, Capacite Infraprojects, PSP these are available from a myriad of suppliers, but what sets CCS apart from them is the
Projects, URC, Brookfield Multiplex, interconnectedness of these modules…one company and solution for your entire contracting
CVCC, Marymatha Construction, business.
Marian Projects and many others. Premium
academic institutions such as NICMAR, cost control. is highly scalable system course of the construction phase of projects.
RICS & NAC have also included our seamlessly integrates all functions and stages We have produced so ware that uses the
so ware as part of their curriculum. of the construction processes and is entirely latest technology, is innovative and ‘leading
focused on and designed for construction – edge’ – not bleeding edge, makes use of an
Please provide details on your emphasis it is not a set of relational databases pressed unique process to identify cost information
on research, design and innovation. onto construction people. Because the from the original source documents and so
CCS Candy and BuildSmart together construction process is unique, complex and enables the organisation to produce timeous
include modules for estimating, planning, organic, and more crucially because CCS up to date and accurate information. It is
valuations, forecasting, cash flow, has developed and perfected this system for also able to schedule and forecast cost
procurement, accounting, wages, plant, over 35 years through a highly interactive information from a single product o ering.
yard and stock management and document and consultative process with the industry, Traditional systems cannot do this. For
control. Separately, these are available CCS manages the numerous links between the rst time, construction organisations
from a myriad of suppliers, but what all functions and all the people involved can view the status of their projects from
distinguishes CCS from all other so ware in the construction process in a systemic anywhere and any device using the web
o erings is the degree of interconnectedness way based on how these things were done interface and can transact from anywhere
of these modules. BuildSmart in unique manually. on the globe. Information critical to their
and sets itself apart from your typical business is available at the click of a mouse.
general accounting ERP systems in that Future outlook for the industry and from e management and sta of CCS are all
it is customised and designed to cater a company perspective. trained construction professionals that
for the unique demands of construction The distinguishing factor separating know and understand the issues around
where information is project based, needs the CCS system from others is the fact the construction process, so when required
to be tracked by activity as well as cost that the so ware has been produced by to consult to the industry the information
type, is being produced and processed in construction professionals, was written supplied is backed up by solid knowledge
many different locations, and is needed speci cally for the industry and addresses and experience. For more details visit:
by management in real-time for e ective all the budgeting and cost elements in the www.ccsasia.com

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