Contractors & Engineering Firms
Project cost, purchasing and documents
controlled while the work is in progress
Contractors and engineering firms carry the risk of every project in its budget, its subcontracts and its schedule of payments. InterCloud implements and operates the project control, finance, procurement and document platform that shows where each project stands before the month-end report is written.
Challenges
Challenges in Construction and Engineering
Cost against budget
Each project has its own budget by work package. When commitments, site purchases and labor are recorded in separate files, an overrun becomes visible only after the money has been spent.
Subcontractors and suppliers
A project depends on many subcontractors and suppliers, each with a contract, deliveries and invoices. Matching them by hand delays payment and weakens the firm's position in a dispute.
Drawings, contracts and approvals
Drawings, variations, site instructions and contracts change throughout a project. Teams on site and in the office require the current version and a record of who approved it.
Billing and cash flow
Revenue arrives in instalments tied to progress, while materials and labor are paid earlier. Finance requires a forecast by project in order to plan funding.
How We Help
Know Where Every Project Stands Before the Month End
Enterprise platform
GlowScale
See committed and actual cost against budget for each project while there is still time to act. The Construction pack adds construction project control to GlowScale, alongside project management and billing, purchasing and inventory, the Vendor Portal for subcontractors and suppliers, document management with e-signature, and finance with budgeting and costing. GlowScale is available in the cloud, in a private cloud or on-premise.
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Digital experience
Orbio
Present completed work, capabilities and contact points on a website your own team maintains. Orbio runs the corporate site and the sites of subsidiaries or projects on one platform, in multiple languages.
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Monitoring
SnowTrack
Keep site and office teams working without interruption. SnowTrack monitors the project platform, portals, integrations and infrastructure, with uptime checks and alerts to your IT team.
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PDPA consent & privacy
TrustFlow
Keep the personal data of employees, subcontractor staff and buyers under one PDPA consent record. TrustFlow stores who agreed to what and when, apart from the ERP's main database, and produces a report when an audit or a dispute needs it.
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AI
InterCloud AI
Project staff find contract clauses, procedures and earlier correspondence in the document archive with the help of an assistant, and managers receive summaries of long documents.
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Our Approach
One Record per Project for Site, Office and Finance
Every purchase order, subcontract, expense claim and invoice is recorded against a project and a budget line. Project managers and finance read the same figures, and approvals follow limits set by the firm.
Documents are stored with versions, approvals and e-signature in the same platform, so the contract, the variation and the invoice that follows it remain linked. Subcontractors and suppliers work with your purchasing and finance teams through the Vendor Portal.
InterCloud configures the platform to the cost structure of the firm, migrates open projects and balances, trains site and office teams, and remains responsible for operation and support.
- Committed and actual cost against budget by project
- Purchasing and subcontracts under one approval workflow
- Document management with versions and e-signature
- Project billing connected to receivables and the ledger
Outcomes
What a Project Is Designed to Deliver
A project for a contractor or engineering firm is planned around the following outcomes.
- Committed and actual cost visible against budget for every project
- Purchase orders and subcontracts approved within set limits
- Supplier and subcontractor invoices matched to orders before payment
- Current drawings and contracts available to site and office teams
- Billing by project connected to receivables and cash flow planning
- Equipment recorded as fixed assets, with depreciation calculated by the system
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Can subcontractors and suppliers work with us online?
Yes. The GlowScale Vendor Portal gives subcontractors and suppliers a place to work with your purchasing and finance teams online, under access rights you control.
Can the platform run in our own data center?
Yes. GlowScale is offered in the cloud operated by InterCloud, in a private cloud as a dedicated environment, or on-premise in your own data center.
Discuss your projects with our team
Describe the kind of projects you carry out, your cost structure and your current systems. Our team will explain how the platform would be set up for them and what the project involves.