Caliber is a leader in the building industry, specifically in the fields of quantity surveying, project management, construction management and development facilitation. The company has vast experience in the planning, design and construction phases of projects and approached leading enterprise project management (EPM) solution provider, Fulcrum Business Solutions, to provide it with a superior, industry relevant, project management solution.
The solution proposed, draws on the industry expertise of Caliber, integrating this with Fulcrum`s recently launched EPM in a Box, a packaged EPM solution designed to meet the core project management requirements of an organisation.
It is based on generic processes and best practices and is pivotal in providing an organisation with a quick solution to manage current and forthcoming projects with greater control. It allows an organisation to maximise its bottom line impact on project delivery without making a large initial investment in costly requirements.
Fulcrum`s EPM in a Box promises to enhance Caliber`s capabilities and project successes as well as its resource utilisation, overall productivity and collaboration through enhancing the project management teams` ability to manage projects while on-site and away from the central hub.
Jaco Pienaar, Professional Project Manager for Caliber, states: "We initially had 28 projects that we wanted to run within the guidelines of EPM in a Box, and with this number constantly growing, our main objective is to manage projects as a unit and establish synergy between all departments."
With the EPM in a Box solution, Caliber will gain a dashboard overview of projects, enabling better communication internally and with contractors, as well as better collaboration with parties involved in projects. Caliber has recognised the capabilities of EPM in a Box as a collaboration tool to minimise meeting times, thus freeing up valuable time to be spent on managing projects and focusing on their core business.
In terms of the back-office and administrative functions, the company plans to standardise documentation and project schedule templates and house this in one central document repository ensuring easy access to new templates and document history.
In addition, the EPM solution will facilitate a feedback loop that enables better communication between contractors, within each project and with each project manager, allowing for the recognition of problems or challenges before they affect the budget or completion date of projects, as well as the ability to share information that in turn leads to conflict resolution.
In a highly competitive marketplace, Caliber`s strength lies in the extent to which it can provide its clients with value-added services, from the conceptualisation phase right up to the delivery of the final product. The EPM in a Box solution delivered by Fulcrum make this more possible.
Maritz Laubscher, Sales Executive for Fulcrum, claims: "We`ve started with the basics, the EPM in a Box solution, and now together we can expand as Caliber`s business grows and matures."
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