COINS Gives Georgiou Group Project Management Edge
Georgiou Group is a national civil building and construction company with offices in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth, providing a diverse range of construction services to government and private clients across Australia.
The team at Georgiou credits COINS ERP+ with transforming the company’s project management processes.
Challenge
Georgiou’s Project Controls Manager, Craig Dovey, was looking for one software system to manage the company’s project management processes.
Before the introduction of COINS, Georgiou had numerous software programs for procurement, payroll, invoicing, forecasting and asset management.
Project reporting was difficult as information wasn’t accurate and didn’t sync across systems, resulting in monthly reviews constantly being delayed.
Dovey said it wasn’t uncommon to call off reviews five minutes into the meeting because the numbers didn’t add up.
Project managers were spending a lot of time on admin, trying to work out if costs and forecasts were accurate.
Craig Dovey, Project Controls Manager, Georgiou
Solution
The nation-wide business introduced COINS’ comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software system, and it’s completely changed the way the company conducts project reviews.
Implementing COINS, Georgiou was able to combine all elements of its project management systems into one single platform, saving time, money and frustrations come end-of-month reporting.
COINS helps Georgiou’s teams on site to see how the whole project is tracking and what their daily costs are, in real time.
When choosing software solutions, we weren’t looking for what worked best for the accountants, but what would be best for projects, and the construction people on site.
Craig Dovey, Project Controls Manager, Georgiou
“It just made sense to have everything in one system like COINS, it made such a huge difference to the day-to-day business,” Dovey said.
“With COINS being very construction specific, and having such a modern user interface, it was the obvious choice for us.”
Key Benefits
Georgiou uses COINS ERP+ on a daily basis in many areas of the business to streamline project management and access reliable data in real-time, including invoicing, asset management, forecasting, procurement and payroll.
Project managers have complete control of how their projects are progressing. They can easily jump into the system and see what areas of a project are performing well and what areas aren’t. They have all the information they require to monitor projects at their fingertips.
COINS has totally changed our monthly project reviews because we know the numbers are accurate.
Craig Dovey, Project Controls Manager, Georgiou
“We’re able to just dive into areas that need our attention, and not spend time wondering if the data is correct,” Dovey said.
Georgiou’s senior managers are relying on data from COINS to monitor performance and cash flow, and feed into business-wide forecasting.
COINS provides Georgiou with the certainty for management to makes decisions on tendering for major projects with confidence, knowing the system can handle the project management and reporting requirements.
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