IT-Box: Research and Development project management

The solution based on Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 is intended for automation of project activity in the project organizations and on the knowledge-intensive productions. A system allows to keep account of the difficult projects executed by parent organization and the enterprises – subcontractors, and includes wide functionality on project accounting, project logistics and the reporting.

Main functional units of the solution: "Contract activities", "Project planning", "Project accounting and reporting" and "Logistics and accounting of Inventories". Use of the automated control system for project activity helps the organization to increase the speed of approval of the project documentation, to increase work planning accuracy within projects, to conduct all change history of project documents, to perform the plan-fact analysis, to organize an inventory control by project activity.

The solution is based on the Microsoft Dynamics AX platform and is intended for automation of project activity of the federal state unitary enterprises, research institutes and laboratories working in the field of instrument making, the space and aircraft industry executing difficult projects for the defense industry and also conducting developments in the field of biotechnologies, power and other critical technologies.

The industry solution combines power and flexibility of basic functionality with automation of specific functions of project planning and project accounting. In a system the interrelation of project accounting with activity of financial and logistic services, maintaining contract activities and control of subcontractors within structure of projects, automation of reconciliation procedure of agreements and accounting documents and also reporting for the guide to control of the project budget and labor input of the carried-out tasks is implemented.

Distinctive feature of the solution of IT-Box company is that on the functionality it not only supports all procedures of management of difficult knowledge-intensive projects with involvement of subcontract organizations, but also allows to prepare the necessary reporting for higher organizations. Thanks to this solution there is a decrease in time of approval of the project documentation, work planning accuracy increases, all change history of project documents in planning process and execution of works remains, the operational plan-fact analysis is made.