We are a company in the steel industry (cold rolling mill) and are looking for a project management software with the following requirements:
General requirements:
- Can be run under Microsoft in a client server environment
- Cloud solution only if the data is stored in Germany
- A total of 40 users (at least 5 users who can manage projects completely, 35 users who can at least view project plans and enter actual resource data)
- Price max. 20T€
- Synchronization with Microsoft programs (Outlook) – optional
- Multilingual – at least English
Resource analyses:
- Display the capacity utilization of resources in target and actual (overload and underload) – also across all projects
- Resources can be combined into groups that can be used in evaluations (e.g. total of all case workers in a department)
- Integrated cost evaluation with hourly rates and investment costs
- Compare the project status from the past with the current project status and display the deviations in terms of deadlines and resources
Handling for daily work (front end):
- Personalizable user interface (by the user or a power user) with, for example, display of the current work steps
- Saving multiple documents (office documents, PDFs) at a project step
- Displaying and capturing project steps in network planning / mind mapping
Multi-project management:
- Temporary merging of projects
- Viewing resource utilization and separating the merged projects
Reporting:
- Tool that can be used by users or “power users” to generate their own reports for the projects
- Statistics