Your company’s vision and mission statements are steady beacons that guide your business. The ever-shifting conditions of the government marketplace are another story, requiring ongoing adjustments to your company’s needs, priorities, and requirements. Optimizing your Unanet system is one strategy to adapt to changes in your internal and external landscape in ways that keep you compliant and profitable.
When was the last time you explored the newest Unanet features and offerings?
Gain Enterprise-Wide Efficiencies and Insights
Unanet designs enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) software for government contractors (GovCons) to continuously deliver efficiencies and ROI. That means your Unanet system likely offers more optimization opportunities today than when it was originally configured. When fully optimized, Unanet can maximize workflow, including time and expense automation and built-in Defense Contract Audit Agency compliance. Your company’s leadership, capture teams, project managers, and key shared services can get the insights they need to perform at their highest level.
The following questions, with examples of key features, can get you started on a review of your Unanet software to ensure it is optimized for your GovCon’s specific needs:
Is your company making maximum use of all Unanet modules?
Customer feedback is a main driver of Unanet updates, so it pays to check in regularly for product enhancements. If your company delivers made-to-order products to federal agencies, for example, Unanet has added advanced capabilities to manage materials, inventory, assets, and the manufacturing process, all synchronized with accounting and project management features. Other recent upgrades include mobile enhancements for expense and timekeeping, new analytical reports, and improved user experience features, all designed to free your team to create winning strategies, not struggle with data collection and display.
Do you use the module for contract management? Project planning?
If you have not yet populated Unanet’s contract management module, consider its advantages over storing contract information under project profiles. One example is Contract Briefs, an Incurred Cost Submission (ICS) requirement that the contract module stores with all associated details. Other examples are the ability to record individual contract modification details, including changes in language and period of performance, attach contract-related documents, and activate custom reporting by contract. The module provides access to necessary contract data and visibility into overall contractual value, funding, and expenditures.
Unanet’s project portfolio forecasting module can help address a top concern of GovCon project managers (PMs)—resource allocation. PMs can input resource plans to track, adjust, and allocate resources for every project and task to identify areas of overspending, prepare competitive bids, and enable better workforce management. Interactive Gannt charts track cost accumulation, revenue, profitability, and utilization across a matrix of people, projects, and accounts. Synchronized data can instantly match actual utilization, performance, and project forecasts in one system.
Do you need help forecasting? Do you need help getting started with implementing the full use of Unanet Project Portfolio Forecasting?
You may have recently implemented Unanet but still need to get started on utilizing the Project Portfolio Forecasting functionality. Are your Project Managers too busy to enter their plans or come up to speed on the tool? CAVU has a team of implementers and system users who are experts in this area and can support your needs. We have even developed acceleration tools to kick-start this process for companies. We have the ability to complete this work for you or work to train your team.
CAVU’s GovCon experts can ensure that your Unanet system is optimized for your firm’s current and future needs with the latest ERP and CRM updates, as well as unique and custom solutions. Feel free to contact us today for more information.