Testimonial CE-N

Efficient time recording and invoicing with SAP Business One® and MARIProject

CE-N is based in Bochum, Germany and develops structural engineering concepts to realize the designs of project planners. The planning office with an interdisciplinary team has been offering consulting and design services in the fields of building physics, safety engineering and fire protection, construction management and IT for over 30 years. The volume of the projects, some of which are international, ranges from a few hundred to several million euros with a duration of a few weeks to many years. CE-N has been using SAP Business One with MARIProject since 2021.

Before: Inefficient project management

  • Until 2020, CE-N used Microsoft Navision, MS Project and an in-house development, which over the years proved to be too time-consuming to maintain. The company was looking for a reliable, integrated solution.
  • At the start of the project, the challenge was to migrate and archive the project data from around 20 years, while at the same time correctly invoicing and posting the contractually agreed services in the current projects and systematically filing documents (contracts, design drawings, etc.).

Why SAP Business One and MARIProject

  • The integrated project software MARIProject has a reliable time recording system that is so efficiently linked to project accounting that recorded times can be processed in SAP Business One accounting without additional entries.
  • CE-N also needed software developers who could understand and implement specific commercial project planning and project management tasks.

After: Optimized processes in the processing and billing of projects plus new ideas

  • MARIProject generates authentic activity records combined with contract-related, correct invoicing.
  • The processing of the sometimes highly variable project workflows has been accelerated, among other things through access to the now digitized old and new project documents in SharePoint.
  • MARINGO is currently working with CE-N to optimize order acceptance, including a detailed project description (issue management). In addition, the processing of A/P invoices is being automated and the idea of automatically storing documents as goods in the ERP system will soon be realized.

 

 

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At a glance

Industry Engineering
Employees 60
Location Bochum, Germany
Website https://www.ce-n.com/
Solution MARIProject, SAP Business ONe