Boess Ingenieure

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«Vertec’s ability for customization convinced us.»

Andreas Fiechter, Head of back office, Boess Ingenieure (until May 2023)

Field of activity: Consulting, planning and client support for electrical engineering in the area of roads and railways, as well as electrical planning in building and civil engineering
Locations: Bern, Zurich, Basel, Lucerne, Lausanne, Thun

Challenges

• Multiple locations and home office
• High demands on project controlling
• Automated evaluations for Management Team
• Several variants for invoicing

Benefits

• Automated controlling
• Phases no longer need to be redefined for each project  
• Flexible invoicing meets complex customer requirements

Vertec Services & CRM incl. all apps, Budget & Phases, Purchase

100-250 Vertec User

The specialists at Boess Ingenieure, plan and implement large electrical projects of new constructions and conversions. Embedded in a complex company structure and with several locations in Switzerland, precise controlling is particularly important to them.

The Importance of Project Controlling

Electrical and electronic installations and systems are the lifelines of buildings and infrastructure. In road tunnels, schools, hospitals or IT centers, power supplies and electronics must not fail even in the event of a power loss, fire or other incidents.

«The monthly project controlling of our project leaders is completely digitalized.»

For Boess Ingenieure, mature project controlling is just as important – especially since large-scale projects tend to run over several years. The offered in-house services, purchases and the working hours already spent must always be monitored. This happens on a monthly basis and, if necessary, forecasts need to be amended.

From customization to completely digital controlling

Boess Ingenieure rely on the almost unlimited customization options of Vertec and the know-how of the sales partner Spektra Netcom AG . The company’s controlling was put into operation in two stages. When Vertec was introduced in 2014, the project controlling, which until now had been created in Excel, was mapped in Vertec. A semi-automated Word report could be exported from it, which had to be edited manually.
With the update to Vertec 6.0, the initial situation to customize pages was created to digitize the controlling. This was implemented in 2016 and can be accessed online at any time.

Offer – Service entry – Controlling

Boess Ingenieure also place great importance on efficiency, reliability and future viability in their own companies. That is why, after taking stock of a project, the necessary phases (e.g. according to SIA) are saved in Vertec. After offer quotations have been created, all employees involved in the project meticulously enter their services on the correct phase. And external services can also be assigned to the projects. In the case of (partial) invoicing, a completed phase is charged. The amounts are automatically transferred to the accounting software.

«Online recording has significantly improved the discipline of service entry.»

This ensures that the project leader has an up-to-date project controlling and even consolidation in the complex corporate structure is possible at the push of a button.