How can one commercial enterprises group with an enormously extensive portfolio of services manage its entire construction cost controlling centrally and transparently?

CITTI Handelsgesellschaft mbh & Co. KG is the owner and operator of six shopping centers, the CITTI-PARKs, in addition to five other Cash & Carry CITTI markets and as a nationwide grocery delivery wholesaler. In addition, CITTI is active as a general ship supplier for the shipping industry.

CITTI relies on conjectCM to continue to expand as well as to manage all construction costs. All responsibilities in budgeting as well as control of costs and revenues are thus brought together under one roof. 

"Our goal is to bring about both procedural as well as IT integration of construction projects in order to minimize processing costs and to ensure transparency of costs," explains Christoph Franke, construction cost controller at CITTI. "conjectCM supports these efforts with its detailed rights system and with a mass allocation of role rights," according to Bernd Amelsberg consultant responsible for the construction process at ATOS, who is supporting the integration of conjectCM in conjunction with the software house and CITTI. Not the least of which because conjectCM speaks the language of "the users in the construction industry."

Currently, conjectCM is integrated into the in-house document management system. At the push of a button, employees now receive access through conjectCM to the corresponding documents pertaining to the process currently in progress, such as invoice processing, based on their personal rights matrix. Time-consuming searches for paper receipts are a thing of the past.

"But conjectCM also makes all payment-relevant information available across departments," according to Axel Viehrig, project manager at conject. "In order to simplify the workflows, the release for payment is created at the push of a button and automatically assigned a barcode through conjectCM. This then only needs to be scanned in the following steps and finally in financial accounting - the worker instantly receives the current process with all relevant information displayed on his PC."

 Axel Viehrig will be happy to answer your questions.

Did you know that ...

...that in the next release of conjectPM you can open projects in Windows Explorer?

conject makes it possible to access documents in conjectPM directly from Windows Explorer as well as from your Office application.

What does this mean for you?

Through a web folder, you can access all project documentation directly from Windows Explorer, directly edit it from there or copy it to the desired target folder using "drag & drop." You can also save and open project documents directly from MS Office. Files can thus be saved to the Project Space or opened from MS Office.

As a result, you can integrate the Project Space effectively into your daily work - it is no longer necessary to also store documents locally.

...a mass allocation of role rights is possible in conjectCM?

Would you like to spend the least possible time on administrative tasks? No problem. The current conjectCM release now contains the option of mass allocation of role rights. This means that, in addition to user types (global rights), user roles (project-related limitation or extension of the user-type rights) can also be used.

You can now quickly and easily:

> assign one employee the same role in several projects,

> bequeath an employee role from one project to another using a reference assignment,

> transfer project/role allocation of a reference employee to another employee, or

> remove role allocations to projects again using a mass removal.

...a graphical object selection is possible in conjectFM?

If you need a selection of various rooms as quickly and easily as possible, you can select them with the graphic object selection function. In this way, you can select areas which, for example, are to be combined into a single area. At the same time, you receive an overview of the overall area marked. You can switch directly from the graphic object selection into the global data maintenance.

And this is how it works:

1) In any module, load a navigation graphic for the floor you want to edit and select the option "Graphic selection" in the context menu.

2) Now click on rooms that should be combined into an area. The overall area of the marked rooms is displayed in the window "Graphic selection" so that an examination can now be carried out (e.g. if an area may not exceed a certain size).

3) Click on OK to transfer the rooms marked into the global data maintenance.

Since a recruiting fair at the Technical University of Munich was fully booked, conject parked a truck right at the front door and opened its own mobile HR offices on the spot. In addition to pretzels and sausages, students also received infos first hand on open positions in the development, sales and customer service divisions. The response was thoroughly positive.

Stiff competition is the reason behind these promotions. Because: the search for qualified employees in the real estate industry has also shifted from construction sites to the universities. "Positively stand out among the crowd" - that was the motto of this unusual approach to recruiting. But the results were worth it because conject has already received a dozen applications.

Applicants are becoming more selective - there are currently more vacancies than there are qualified workers. On the other hand, increasingly higher qualifications are required of the applicants, as well. As a result, a "supply gap" is emerging which companies, like conject, are trying to fill through such high-profile promotions.

But the advantages talked about must also be put into practice. The highly-praised working atmosphere or the fulfillment of independent working methods - isn't this too often just a subject for the glossy brochures? Not at conject. Here, we are also breaking new ground. Now an interdisciplinary team from various divisions is running HR marketing and in the campaign "I'm already here! When are you coming"? is working on creative approaches to finding new qualified colleagues. Jan Philip Heim, active at conject for over ¾ of a year as a consultant, appreciates the measures. "I like to think out of the box. It's great that I am able to help bring new colleagues on board and I know that I am really able to make things happen!"

You will find all open positions at conject here.

Elke Tonscheidt

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