Dynamics 365 Project Operations is a powerful and highly respected service and product, which helps organizations modernize project management experiences and improve operational efficiency. Simply put, Dynamics 365 Project Operations is a fully equipped bundled offering of tools and features to fit your industry curriculums and/or project needs.
Dynamics 365 Project Operations Use Cases
1. Professional Services Organizations:
Resource Management: Achieve real-time control of resource management based on availability, competencies/skills, and load.
Time and Expenses: Track actual time on the project and associated expenses for accurate billing and profitability.
Portfolio Management: Evaluate defined project portfolios under the company’s strategic directions and return on investment.
Customer Account Management: Establish relationships with customers engineering production of real-time updates of their project and provision of quality services.
2. Building Contractors:
Cost Control: Document project cost and budgets and actual results, monitor this and inform stakeholders when cost overruns are likely to happen.
Schedule Control: Assess project delivery- in terms of milestones and deliverables- compared to what is planned to be finished.
Inventory Tracking: The availability of equipment, projects, and maintenance schedules can be tracked.
Subcontractor Management: This will help to communicate with the subcontractors from the organization and introduction of time tracking.
3. For Engineering and Manufacturing Concerns:
Product Lifecycle Management: This functionality of PLM can be extent to project management to ensure continuity within Product design.
Bill of Material Management: Updates to and management of normally complicated BOM calculations for costing to procure required material.
Quality Assurance: Includes quality assurance practices to provide the confidence that products meet customer satisfaction.
Production Planning: Ability to plan for production capability based on demand and available resources.
4. Non-Profit Organizations
Grant Management: Track grant funding from application submission to final report on grant expenditures.
Volunteer Management: Management of all coordinating volunteer schedules, capacity, and training.
Program Evaluation: Evaluation of program delivery effectiveness and program impacts.
Donor Management: Management and relationship with donors specific to their contributions, their purpose, and dollars specified.
5. Government:
Compliance Management: Adapt to regulation as well as staying ahead of the required compliance.
Public Works Projects: Include project management as it pertains to public works project planning, budget, and construct quality.
Grant Management: Management of federal and state grant program disbursement and reporting of them.
Public engagement: This will include public engagement in the form of their comments and feedback on the same.
Conclusion
By unleashing Dynamics 365 Project Operations, an organization would better understand and be in a position to manage its opportunities vis-à-vis Project Efficacy and Effectiveness. The much-needed capabilities for this are provided by Dynamics 365 Project Operations, along with added flexibility for any organization-be it a professional services firm, construction company, engineering firm, not-for-profit organization, or government agency.
