This presentation provides a brief overview of the project controls, procurement, reporting and construction management features of 4castplus

1. 4castplus
SMART SOLUTIONS FOR SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS

2. Most organizations that run
complex projects…

3. Experience a Similar Set of
Challenges…

4. Challenges such as:
1. Getting Good Project Visibility
2. Knowing Budget vs. Actual on any Day
3. Managing Project Changes
4. Ability to Forecast costs to complete on a Spend Timeline
5. Gaining Insight into Subcontractor Productivity & Performance
6. Getting Timely Costs & Activities from the Jobsite
7. Projects Going Over Budget – and not Knowing until it’s Too Late
8. Approving Vendor Invoices
9. Quickly creating Project Reports
10. Big Picture Reporting – Program and Business Intelligence Reports
… Just to name a few

5. At 4castplus, we provide solutions to
help you tackle those challenges,
and a lot more

6. Here’s What We Do …

7. Many Companies have Enterprise
Project Solutions that look a bit like
this:

8. Scheduling
They’ll often have a scheduling
tool like MS Project or P6 to
manage the project schedule

9. Scheduling
They’ll also rely on their
accounting/ERP for things like:
• Actual Costs
• PO generation
• Vendor Invoicing
• Coding
Accounting

10. Scheduling
And then, in the middle here,
what emerges is … a whole bunch
of spreadsheets.
Which look a bit like this:
Accounting

11. Scheduling Accounting

12. Look Familiar?

13. An Environment like that Causes a lot of
Problems:
1. Manual re-keying of data – lots of errors and duplicated work
2. Nothing’s connected – so you can’t go to one place to get a consolidated view
3. People work in silos – very little collaboration
4. Information gets lost
5. People have a very low amount of trust in the data
6. Information is delayed. Project teams can’t take corrective action because it’s too late
… Just to name a few

14. Here’s what we do at
4castplus

15. We enable you to eliminate most if
not ALL of those spreadsheets

16. With a Single Integrated Solution

17. That will Change your Life and Bring
you Hope

18. A system that fits into your
Enterprise Project Solutions.
A bit like this:

19. Scheduling Accounting

20. 4castplus is a multi-user, multi-
discipline, collaborative system

21. That’s Cloud-Based and very
easy to use

22. It has an Integrated Suite of Tools,
Including:
1. Project Management
2. Project Controls
3. Full Procurement Management – PO, RFQ, Contracts, Receiving, Invoicing, Expediting, Accruals Reporting
4. Project & Program Budgeting with Time-Phasing
5. Estimating – build ground-up estimates
6. Forecasting – quantity or lump-sum forecasts
7. Change Management – robust change order, budget transfer and contingency management
8. Earned Value Management – including comprehensive tools for progress measurements
9. Jobsite LEM Tracking – Full Field Data Capture system
10. Timesheet Tracking – labor timesheet & expenses with exports to payroll, AP, AR
11. Ad-hoc and Custom Reporting
… Just to name a few

23. Everything’s tightly
integrated…

24. So data flows smoothly, and
intelligently, between people and
processes

25. Team Collaboration
Data gets entered ONCE – and used & reused in many places.
You can do away with re-keying data in spreadsheets and sharing
documents through email.
4castplus brings together the multi-disciplines that make up your
project teams in a true collaborative platform.
Engineering
Construction
Procurement
Controls

26. Check out the Project
Dashboard:

28. And the Procurement
Dashboard:

30. The Change Order Log:

32. And a Project Spend Forecast:

34. Program Dashboard:

36. All this just works -
Out-of-the-Box …

37. To minimize the amount of
configuration you have to do

38. Of course, you still have to INPUT
the data. And the good news is …

39. 4castplus makes this very Easy,
Consolidated and Centralized

40. 4castplus has modules to input and
create Everything for your project:
1. Work Breakdown Structure and Schedule
2. Cost Breakdown Structure
3. Ground-up Estimates with Time-Phasing
4. Purchase Orders
5. Requests for Quote
6. Change Orders
7. Incurred Costs (Actuals): For Labor, Equipment, Materials, Vendor Charges, etc.
8. Vendor Receipts and Invoices
9. Full Field Data Capture (LEM Tracking)
10. Documents – into a document repository
11. You even can capture all your labor, equipment, materials & vendors into the 4castplus Resource Databases
… Just to name a few

41. But maybe you already have some
systems in place where you input
data. What then?

42. With 4castplus, You can also Import,
Sync or Integrate almost anything

43. Integrate, Import, Export or Sync stuff
like:
1. Import/Sync WBS & Schedule with MS Project, Excel or Primavera
2. Import/Sync Incurred Cost Transactions from other systems including Accounting
3. Import Estimates from Take Offs or Excel
4. Import/Sync Purchase Orders, RFQs, Expediting, PO Receipts, PO Invoicing, Vouchers
5. Import Change Orders
6. Import Timesheet Transactions
7. Import resources like your labor, equipment, materials databases
8. Import vendors, and customers
9. Import Rates Databases
10. Export/Sync Cost Transactions to AP, Payroll and Accounting
… Just to name a few

44. Regardless of how you get data INTO
the system, getting data OUT is
equally important

45. And, we don’t mean to brag, but…

46. The Reporting in 4castplus is Quite
Remarkable

47. Reporting is Flexible, Customizable, and
Available Everywhere:
4castplus has a very modern, Report-Driven interface where interactive, ad-hoc
reporting is available everywhere in the system.
Users are kept in-the-zone by having contextual reporting continuously at their
fingertips
It has been designed to enable users to quickly navigate around and access
reporting on all aspects of projects, programs, resources, vendors, changes,
contracts, documents, and much more.

48. There are Numerous Types of Reporting:
• Interactive Reporting
• Many canned reports built-in
• Timeline Reports like S-Curve, Spend Forecasts and Discipline Forecasts
• Custom Report Builder. You can design unlimited customized Report Templates to run
on-demand
• Dashboards and Drill-down Reports
• Business Intelligence Reporting – for corporate-level reporting
• Productivity Reporting – to evaluate vendor and project performance
• Earned Value Reports
• Status Reports
• Program Reporting
• Procurement Reports

49. All Reports can be Exported to Excel

50. Or Viewed On-Screen, Or as a PDF

51. The Intelligent
Jobsite

52. 4castplus Connects your
Office with the Jobsite

53. With its LEM Tracking System for
Field Data Capture

54. Field Personnel can Capture Daily Field
Data Such as:
1. Labor hours from Employees and/or Contractors
2. Labor expenses such as: LOA, Meals, Hotel, etc.
3. Equipment – either owned or vendor equipment
4. Materials – All consumed materials by owner or contractor
5. Field Receiving – for receipt of goods at site based on committed PO
6. 3rd Party Vendor Charges. Any ‘other’ vendor expenses
7. Progress. With 4castplus you can track unit progress for any deliverable
8. Documents. Any documents, reports, photos, maps, etc. can be uploaded and
attached
9. Daily log for capturing notes, observations, diary, etc. of the day’s events and activities

55. It’s Easy-to-use – Even for the most
un-technical:

57. Cost and Activity Data is
Immediately Registered on the
correct cost code, project and
resource

58. So that Project Managers and
Project Controls have Immediate
Visibility …

59. To make Critical Decisions Quickly
and Accurately

60. INDUSTRIES

61. 4castplus is a key Technology Provider for
Industries such as:
1. Oil & Gas
2. Environmental
3. Mining
4. Utilities
5. Infrastructure

62. So, what about Training
and Implementation?

63. 4castplus provides a full suite of
Professional Services for:
1. User Training
2. System Implementation and Configuration
3. Data Migration
4. Professional Consulting
5. Organizational Change Management

64. We are a Quality and Service-Driven
Organization

65. To Learn More or Contact Us:
• Visit our Website at: www.4castplus.com
• Sign-up for a Free Demo at: www.4castplus.com/freedemo
• Contact us by Phone: +1-403-450-7887
• Contact us by email at: info@4castplus.com