 | Overview The Project Control System helps a globally operating logistics company to monitor and control its worldwide projects, including those subcontracted to suppliers. With this system, the corporation executes its financial controlling, and obtains detailed report data for all of its worldwide projects. The client has over 200,000 employees in 220 countries. Description The Project Control System is a multi-client, multi-language and multi-currency solution, and interfaces with the companies’ core ERP system from SAP. |
The system reflects the organizational structure of the corporation, consisting of about 100 legally independent subsidiaries with over 400 departments, and their suppliers.
Users may have any combination of trans-departmental, -subsidiary –cost center and -project roles, with different assignments, rights and duties in any of their roles.
Project accounting is carried out by registration of budgets, contracts, work orders, invoices, receipts, payments, progress and acceptance reports, and their allocation to individual projects.
With a detailed reporting package, management and financial controllers keep an overview of project status.
Project accounting is carried out by registration of budgets, contracts, work orders, invoices, receipts, payments, progress and acceptance reports, and their allocation to individual projects.
With a detailed reporting package, management and financial controllers keep an overview of project status.
Features
- combines departmental projects to corporate projects
- manages long-term projects over several fiscal years
- controls debtor /creditor accounts
- reports detailed statistical and analytical information for year/month with monthly split by project, cost center, order, invoice etc.;
- automated messaging informs about important events
- manages reference data
- manages a flexible system of rights and permissions
Technologies used
- DBMS: Oracle Database 11g
- Programming language: Java
- Application server: JBoss Application Server 5.0
- J2EE – component model application,
- EJB 3 (Hibernate) – for DB access
- JSP, Struts 2, Tiles, JavaScript – for UI
- Quartz –for implementation of scheduled tasks
- JUnit – for modular automatic tests
Project organization
Scope of work: about 9,000 man-hours, fixed price contract.
The project was implemented under contract from NearShore Solutions GmbH.
The development term was 7 months.
Clients’ responsibility was overall Project Management, Architecture and some Design tasks.
SRS, most of the designs, part of the architecture, development and automated test were our responsibilities.
The project was implemented under contract from NearShore Solutions GmbH.
The development term was 7 months.
Clients’ responsibility was overall Project Management, Architecture and some Design tasks.
SRS, most of the designs, part of the architecture, development and automated test were our responsibilities.
