Transform time reporting and inventory management
How many different price lists are you managing today? One for each client and perhaps even project-specific price lists? Keeping price lists correctly updated is often a cumbersome and extensive task. With Next, you manage an item in one place and set various customer-, project-, or framework agreement prices based on this.
Time reporting directly via mobile
Log work hours quickly out in the field via your phone. The data is instantly sent to the payroll system and recorded as a project cost in real time, providing transparency in financial tracking and project performance.
Streamlined documentation with photos and documents
Improve your project’s compliance and quality of delivery through effective documentation. Save diary entries, photos, checklists, drawings, and documents, reducing the risk of disputes.
Integrated invoice and payroll management
Gain a comprehensive overview of time and materials reported by field personnel. This information is crucial for accurate invoice and payroll generation, with the capability to send reminders and follow up on forecasts within a single system.
Construction inventory tracking
Efficiently manage and track materials, travel, and equipment hire costs. Next’s inventory tracking allows for the monitoring of resource usage per job and offers tailored discounts for your best customers.
Real-time project report submission
Ensure all hours are appropriately allocated to the correct project in real-time. Monitor project progress and control hours against estimates without the hassle of traditional timesheet chasing.
Comprehensive reporting for improved project margins
Enhance your project’s financial margins with detailed reporting features, including tracking of working hours, overtime, AAW, travel, and usage of company resources
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Get real-time insight into the project’s finances
The aim of the Next planning module is not to replace MS Project or Powerproject for large contracts – Next focuses on simplicity instead. This is true for both resource planning and project planning (Gantt), both of which are aimed at replacing the whiteboard or Excel sheet often used today.
Comprehensive real-time overview
Get a real-time overview of project economics to understand your company’s health and direction.
Comprehensive approach to project economics
Centralise all quarterly data in Next for comparison, analysis, and extracting key insights. This includes monitoring projects daily, generating automatic after-calculation on all assignments, and establishing flexible project budgets.
Project-level or overall view
In Next’s project overview, quickly find and follow up on the projects of your choice, whether at an individual project level or an overarching company level.
Rapid identification of risk projects
With all economic data in Next, swiftly identify projects where time and costs are escalating, allowing for timely intervention and management.
Comprehensive basis for progressive profit calculation
Next provides a complete foundation for progressive profit calculation, enhancing financial accuracy and control over profitability.
Fact-based economic management
Next compiles critical data such as hours, materials, machinery, and financial transactions in one place for a fact-based overview of each project.
Key questions addressed
Next helps in answering critical questions about project status, profitability sources, areas for improvement, prioritisation for profitability, and actions to increase profitability.
Real-time economic key figures
Access real-time economic key figures such as invoiced amounts, earned value, TB, and TG% in Next, providing a clear and current financial picture.
Flexible project budgeting
Create project budgets at various levels depending on the project’s scope – overall, per construction part/subproject, or in detail (account level), offering versatile budgeting options.
Everything you need for your construction projects
Manage your entire construction process, from start to finish, with Next’s fully cloud-based tools.
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Streamlining construction industry invoicing
Are you often late with your invoicing? Do you end up having to work evenings and weekends to catch up? Are you sometimes unsure whether you have actually included everything on the invoice? The Next invoice module is the most advanced module of them all – you will not find a better tool to support the company’s most important administrative task, i.e. ensuring that you charge for the services you deliver.
Centralised billing management
Consolidate all billing aspects, including hours, machinery, and materials, in one place, allowing for efficient invoice creation and management.
Invoice specification validation
Ensures the accuracy and completeness of each invoice by checking and adjusting the invoice specification before finalisation.
Deduction calculations
Automatically calculates deductions for repairs, conversions, extensions, cleaning, maintenance, and laundry.
Diverse invoice distribution choices
Choose how to issue invoices – via regular post, email, or EDI – directly from the Next platform.
Factoring service connection
Connect to a factoring service to quickly get funds into your account, enhancing cash flow management.
Automated invoice item import
Automatically import all chargeable items to the invoice specification, streamlining the invoice preparation process.
Flexible invoicing options
Facilitates easy invoicing for both small maintenance orders and AAW, accommodating diverse invoicing needs.
One-click document attachment
Attach invoice documents such as supplier invoices, photos, and other documents effortlessly with a single click.
Seamless accounting integration
Automatically transfers invoice data to the accounting system for efficient subledger and bookkeeping management.
Everything you need for your construction projects
Manage your entire construction process, from start to finish, with Next’s fully cloud-based tools.
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Master financial scheduling in construction
Eliminate manual spreadsheet work and gain comprehensive control over your construction project payments. The Next payment plan module integrates seamlessly with your project management, offering detailed insights and simplifying communication with clients.
Integrated version control
Experience precision in tracking changes to your payment plan. Each revision is distinctively marked, providing a detailed record of adjustments and their corresponding dates. This aids in meticulous monitoring of your plan’s evolution.
Simplicity in setup
Initiate a new payment plan with ease by setting periods and amounts. Importing pre-existing plans from Excel is straightforward, enhancing the efficiency of the setup process.
Flexible payment plan configuration
Tailor your payment plan to fit the specific needs of your project. The module accommodates both flat-rate and performance-based arrangements, providing versatility to meet diverse project demands.
Seamless integration with the project overview
Merge your payment planning with the project overview for a unified management approach. Gain a holistic view of accumulated values, aligning with the Next’s standard for consistent project tracking.
Continuous oversight
Keep a comprehensive view of all financials, including invoiced, pending, and remaining amounts. Essential for larger projects, it offers a broad perspective, linking seamlessly with the project overview to track accumulated value.
Efficient client communication
Directly communicate updated and original payment plans to clients through the module. The integration of email templates simplifies and streamlines this process, ensuring clarity and consistency in client interactions.
Comprehensive financial overview
Develop a deep understanding of your project’s financial status. This feature offers a clear depiction of all transactions, both invoiced and pending, along with a detailed per-transaction breakdown and an aggregated total for full financial clarity.
Everything you need for your construction projects
Manage your entire construction process, from start to finish, with Next’s fully cloud-based tools.
Our team is here to assist you
Book an unconditional demo to gain further insight about our offering.
Optimise project outcomes with strategic financial planning
Are you forced to perform manual preparatory work when producing the basis for reconciliation and forecasting? Perhaps you pull numbers from the finance system and create your forecast in Excel? If you use Next instead, the import possibilities from the estimating software combined with the complete integration with the finance system mean that the manual registration work disappears, while also allowing you to monitor project finances in real time.
Import of account-based budgets
Enhance your budgeting efficiency with the ability to directly import detailed, account-based budgets from leading estimating tools like BidCon, MAP, or Wikells.
Advanced AAW module
Streamline the management of AAW orders. Generate detailed AAW documentation and maintain ongoing records for accurate tendering and precise invoicing to clients. Ensure that all additional works are tracked and billed correctly, maintaining financial integrity.
Versatile forecasting tools
Adapt to the ever-changing landscape of construction projects managing multiple forecasts. This feature supports various versions and periods, enabling you to plan for short-term adjustments and long-term projections, ensuring financial readiness for any scenario.
Support for quantity-related contracts
Efficiently manage contracts based on quantity, allowing you to monitor both revenue (executed quantities) and costs (resources). Gain insights into your project’s financial performance, ensuring you have a clear understanding of both income and expenditures.
Detailed tracking of working hours
Monitor work hours by account or various modes/activities for a comprehensive view of labour costs. It includes the tracking of alterations and additional work (AAW), giving a more granular understanding of labour expenses and their impact on the overall budget.
Dynamic budget and forecasting module
Stay ahead of the curve with a budget and forecasting feature that dynamically updates in line with any alterations or additional work. This real-time adjustment ensures that your budget always reflects the current state of your project, allowing for more accurate forecasting and financial planning.
Project overview for financial insight
Gain a bird’s eye view of your project’s financial health with Next’s project overview feature. Track finances across different sub projects or AAWs, and analyse data at a general level, like project type.
Everything you need for your construction projects
Manage your entire construction process, from start to finish, with Next’s fully cloud-based tools.
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Efficient management of alterations and additional work
In the construction industry, managing alterations and additional work demands precise documentation and accurate accounting. With Next, you can document all alterations and additions in real time, using both text and photos, ensuring that you are compensated accurately for the work performed.
Real-time mobile documentation on site
Document alterations and additions directly at the job site. Record hours, costs, and documents for a specific AAW using your mobile device, tablet, or laptop. This feature enables you to earmark resources and link photos and diary entries to each AAW, ensuring detailed and accurate recording of all alterations and additional work.
Comprehensive information collection
Good documentation reduces the risk of disputes for your AAWs. Ensure your cases contain all necessary information, including images, email conversations, orders, approvals, invoices, etc. Next supports comprehensive AAW journals and specifications for reporting to the client, enhancing transparency and accountability.
Streamlined client reporting
Efficiently report all AAWs in the customer portal of Next, whether it be structural alterations, layout changes, or other work. This feature provides you with timely updates and detailed insights into the AAWs, fostering trust and clear communication throughout the project lifecycle.
Centralised AAW management
Next consolidates all AAWs work in a central, easily navigable view, providing a clear overview of all ongoing alterations, including their current status – whether approved, pending approval, etc. – for each project. This centralised management system facilitates separate reporting of all alterations and additional work during invoicing, making it easier to track and bill additional work accurately.
Enhanced budgeting and forecasting-
With automatic updates of budgets and forecasts, Next ensures that all AAWs are reflected in your financial planning. This feature helps maintain accurate projections, keeping your budget aligned with the actual on-site work and expenses.
Everything you need for your construction projects
Manage your entire construction process, from start to finish, with Next’s fully cloud-based tools.
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FAQs
What is AAW?
AAW stands for “alteration and additional work.” It refers to any extra work required that is not included in the original scope of work specified and agreed upon in the contract.
What is a variation order?
A variation order is a document issued during a construction project that authorises changes to the original contract. These changes can involve alterations to the scope of work, materials, specifications, or timelines.
What are structural alterations?
Structural alterations refer to changes made to the core components of a building, such as beams, columns, walls, and foundations. These alterations typically involve modifications that affect the structural integrity or load-bearing aspects of the building.
What are common examples of addition & alteration work?
Examples include extending a building with a new room, updating electrical and plumbing systems, improving accessibility features, and reconfiguring internal layouts.
Streamline bid, quotation, and contract management
Do you manage tenders, quotations and agreements in Word or Excel templates? Do you sometimes get errors when you copy from one quote to another? Next digitizes your handling of tenders, offers and contracts and can be adapted to your business and can be used for everything from small projects for private individuals to large projects.
Automatic quotation generation
A professional quotation is a key sales document. Automatically generate a PDF with all the project information and the correct contract texts to send to the client.
Standard templates for bids and quotations
Create standard templates for bids and quotations in construction, groundworks, and contracting. These customisable templates can be reused for different clients, projects, or tasks, tailored to your specific business needs. Next consolidates all project information and attachments, ensuring that all relevant terms are included.
Centralised project information
Gather all project information in one place and use it as a basis for your bids and contracts, so you avoid duplicating the information in multiple places.
Automatically attach annexes-
Annexes such as drawings or photos taken on-site can be automatically attached to the quotation.
Everything you need for your construction projects
Manage your entire construction process, from start to finish, with Next’s fully cloud-based tools.
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Gain full overview of inspections across all projects
Elevate your HSEQ management with the Next platform. We’ve revolutionised reporting and inspection processes through standardised digital checklists, ensuring safety and compliance in all your projects. From streamlined project management and efficient data collection to effective task delegation and rigorous quality assurance, our system offers a complete overview of inspections, enhancing performance while reducing risks.
Checklists
Streamline your project management with Next’s checklists. Easily create or choose from standard templates, and automatically integrate notes and photos directly into the checklist. Each entry is also mapped to the construction site location for easy reference.
Delegation of tasks
Easily delegate tasks, complete with photos, documentation, and notes for clear guidance. Track progress on each task and access comprehensive reports post-inspection, available via link or PDF, to ensure efficient task management and follow-up.
HSE
Ideal for HSE inspections, our software ensures compliance with building regulations and enhances on-site safety standards. It provides inspectors with tools to identify and document safety concerns, ensuring all safety protocols are followed for a safer, compliant work environment.
Collect important data
Efficiently gather and organise essential project data with our platform. Collate detailed notes, upload photos, and document changes and tasks. The system tracks locations and responsible parties for each point, enhancing your project’s management and communication.
Quality assurance-
Enhance quality assurance in your projects. Our platform helps identify potential issues early, saving costs and time. Use your smartphone or tablet to collect data, delegate tasks on-site, and access detailed inspection reports. It ensures thorough follow-up on each inspection point, maintaining project quality and consistency.
Everything you need for your construction projects
Manage your entire construction process, from start to finish, with Next’s fully cloud-based tools.
Our team is here to assist you
Book an unconditional demo to gain further insight about our offering.
Elevate your procurement strategy
Next Project’s procurement module supports structured procurement activities with a strong focus on planning and to create a comprehensive overview where you can see the real-time status of all purchases to be made within your project. The goal is, of course, for all purchases to be well thought out, thus avoiding rushed panic buying, which ultimately should lead to a better financial outcome.
Flexible procurement plan
Create procurement entries manually, from the chart of accounts, your account-set calculation, or directly from Wikells for a customised and detailed procurement plan.
Document and email templates
Use predefined document and email templates for efficient and smooth communication with suppliers.
Simple handling of attachments
Easily attach annexes to enquiries and contracts when sending emails, simplifying the document flow.
Supplier statistics
Gain an overview of past interactions with suppliers including response rates and accepted tenders for better insight and relationships.
Full traceability of invoices
Track incoming invoices with full transparency and link them to reconciliation and forecasting for meticulous financial control.
Overview of critical dates
Easily keep track of all important dates in the procurement process, ensuring that no critical deadlines are missed.
Centralised procurement documentation
Save enquiries, contracts, and all other procurement documentation directly under the respective procurement entries for organised document management.
Comprehensive supplier assessment
Evaluate suppliers with criteria such as HSE (Health, Safety, Environment), financial health, collective agreements, and more, for thorough assessment.
Financial project overview
Get a clear picture of procurement goals, contract sums, and procurement gains, presented for each procurement entry and in a summarised overview.
Everything you need for your construction projects
Manage your entire construction process, from start to finish, with Next’s fully cloud-based tools.
Our team is here to assist you
Book an unconditional demo to gain further insight about our offering.
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