Meridian Capabilities
Asset Management
Identify, track, locate and analyze your corporate assets—including both location and equipment asset types.
Billing and Invoice Management
Complex contracts have complex invoicing conditions that must be managed and controlled. Everything from flexible schedules of values, retention rules, lien releases, etc. is critical to manage. You can also streamline the approval of multiple invoices into packages, and even track actual payments for every invoice.
Budget Management
Managing budgets and comparing costs is essential to financially successful programs and projects, starting with managing the funding document process on how capital projects get estimated and approved. Stay current with profit and loss projections by linking all cost transactions and comparing them against established budgets. Use powerful and flexible hierarchical coding systems to match your organization’s coding system; interactively view and summarize budgets from many perspectives.
Cash Flow Management
Forecast individual project cash flows, as well as rolled-up cash flows across multiple program and projects via the Internet. Quickly change the forecasted cash flows by fiscal year, by quarter, and by month allowing financial managers to oversee an organization's cash needs for all its capital projects.
Change Management
Changes on projects and programs cause devastating budget overruns and schedule delays. Track cost events from the source document that initiated the change, to sending out requests for quotes and instructions, to managing the incoming actual quotes. Roll up quotes into actual change orders to existing contracts, and instantly link to your overall budget to accurately control budget and cost increases.
Contract Management
Create and manage all of your contracts, including professional service contracts, major capital contracts, purchase orders, and unit price contracts. Manage everything from multi-million dollar complicated contracts to simple open-ended purchase orders.
Collaborative Scheduling
Use the Internet to centrally manage all company project schedules in one location, with interactive collaboration of schedule information accessible to clients, vendors, suppliers, etc. Provide senior executives with valuable business intelligence with a dashboard summary view of multiple projects. Allow project managers to collaboratively manage the critical path with multiple internal departments, as well as external partners.
Correspondence Management
Stay on top of the massive amounts of correspondence for all programs and projects including requests for information, transmittals, and meeting minutes. Easily maintain critical audit trails of important decisions made on a project.
Demand Maintenance
Control work order processes for corrective asset maintenance.
Drawing Management
Manage design drawings, submittal drawings, space planning drawings, etc. that involve approvals by multiple people, with different approval cycles and sequences. Easily maintain revision histories as these drawings change; increase your understanding of design lifecycles and the associate impacts of any changes.
Enterprise Resource Management
Successfully manage your company's most important assets by evaluating how well resources are deployed across your programs and projects. Service-oriented organizations can easily forecast resources in order to make hiring decisions, or reallocate existing resources and skills. Understand the profitability and utilization rates of people, roles, and departments across multiple geographical locations.
File Management
Manage unstructured data files, such as Microsoft™ Office documents, digital photos, CAD files, and Adobe™ PDFs, etc. Centralize documents in one location across an organization and for a collection of programs and projects. Security permissions help create a valuable knowledge base that anybody can access from any location.
Labor and Timesheet Management
Capture actual labor information with easy to use web-based timesheets that are allocated against schedule and resource plans. Once these costs have been captured, the system can provide comparison between forecasts and actuals.
Maintenance Management
Get one universal view of all maintenance issues, problems, resolutions and maintenance procedures.
Multi-currency Management
Conduct transactions in different global currencies, and reconcile these transactions against base project currencies. Setup an unlimited amount of currencies in any project. Create budgets and contract transactions in different currencies. Document actual exchange rates on the date of cash payments. Run analysis on currencies' gains and losses throughout your projects.
Program Management
Managing multiple projects as a unique set is important functionality for large enterprises with small projects. Proliance manages multiple budget development cycles that fund an overall program, provides detailed financial analysis on individual projects, and instantly rolls up financials for the entire program. In addition, you can contract for material and services across one or more projects within the program, as well as provide program level changes and billings.
Predictive Maintenance
Control work order processes for corrective meter-based maintenance.
Preventative Maintenance
Create a maintenance plan for scheduling groups of assets for preventive maintenance procedures, and track total maintenance costs.
Project Management Planning
Implement best practices from multiple source documents and tailor them to different kinds of projects. Throughout your projects, ensure the completion of documents like profit projections, safety programs, operational guidelines, approval stages, etc. Save regular information snapshots in order to track trends over time.
Purchasing Management
Procure goods and services on a timely and accurate basis to ensure successful projects. Identify all scopes of work and services that must be purchased, process requests and invitations, and perform bid analysis across a program or project.
Safety & Quality Management
Implementing and maintaining a project safety plan is an import part of creating a safety conscious project team. Enforcing and policing your safety plan creates an environment with less accidents, which ultimately reduces your company's insurance costs. Building a quality facility with the right materials and workmanship requires a careful eye on quality. Manage the quality of the facility through detailed inspections, testing of equipment, and corrective notices for improperly installed or incorrect material.
Service Request
With a simple user web interface, users can quickly and easily submit and check the status of existing service requests. After requests are completed, users can submit a satisfaction survey. Take your level of service to the next by providing users customer service bulletins, frequently asked questions and more.
Site Management
Maintain detailed historical records of ongoing daily activities for valuable project reviews. Help managers spot trends in the daily progress of projects. Manage overall project quality through use of daily diaries, inspections, safety policy enforcement, punch lists, etc.
Tax Management
Government jurisdictions are imposing a myriad of taxes that affect your contracts and invoices. Automate these processes with a flexible system that can handle the different state and country taxes, including GST and other committing and non-committing taxes.
Vendor Management
Maintain a preferred list of clients, vendors and suppliers to ensure successful relationships. Verify preferred vendors through an annual qualification process. Maintain information changes such as addresses, contact information, bonding limits, insurance certification, previous bid histories and previous contract histories.
View and Redlining
Collaborate across departments and business units within your organization, and with outside vendors and suppliers. Easily view, redline, and mark-up many files stored in the file management system, like photos, drawings, design files, etc.
Work Order Management
Process work orders from request through closure with user-defined workflow. Group work orders into packages for cost accumulation and reporting. You can also track material and labor costs against work orders.
