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Be-terna Utilities and infrastructure management (UIM)

by BE-terna

Designed for companies where assets, their construction, and maintenance represent the core business

Utilities and infrastructure management (UIM) is a powerful vertical solution designed on the D365FSCM platform. It is specifically tailored for asset-intensive industries where construction, operation, and maintenance of assets form the backbone of business operations. The solution integrates industry-specific functionalities to address key operational needs, ensuring efficient workflows and greater productivity.

UIM's key features are:
  • Investment management: supports project hierarchies, financing types, technical asset tracking, automated item requirements processing, and capitalizing work-in-progress costs into fixed assets. It includes integration layers to enable seamless data exchange with external systems, ensuring investment project transactions, item consumption, and progress tracking can be efficiently managed and updated.
  • Fixed asset management: tracks physical asset locations, facilitates mass asset lending, disposal document with partial disposal, and low-value asset handling, and provides robust asset insurance management.
  • Inventory management: introduces the project allocation tracking dimension for precise project-specific inventory tracking, automates reservations and shipments, optimizes shipping workflows, and includes advanced item configurator functionality for efficient creation of new items using procurement categories and attribute values.
  • Loan and deposit management: registers and calculates loans and deposits, providing accurate accruals for better financial oversight.
  • Public procurement and procurement enhancements: facilitates tender and agreement processes with multi-case management, automated output document generation, and legal compliance.
  • Document classification and management: enables document tagging, classification, and transfer across procurement, projects, and fixed assets modules. Enhances workflows and reporting by ensuring consistent classification and accessibility.
  • Document management system connector: offers an advanced integration solution for external document management systems, facilitating automated vendor invoice creation, integrated document workflows, and document archiving framework.

The UIM solution is ideal for organizations operating in industries that require robust asset and project management, such as:
  • Companies in the utilities sector, including energy, water, and telecommunications.
  • Construction firms involved in large-scale infrastructure projects.
  • Infrastructure development companies focusing on asset creation and maintenance.
  • Public sector organizations managing public works and infrastructure networks.
  • Asset-intensive enterprises requiring integrated project and asset management solutions.

UIM addresses the following customer needs:
  • Simplifying complex project management: improves oversight of project hierarchies, financing, and asset tracking, providing better control and visibility.
  • Enhancing asset utilization: streamlines fixed asset processes, including mass lending, partial disposal, and low-value asset management, to reduce inefficiencies and operational costs.
  • Ensuring procurement compliance: ensures compliance with legal standards through automation of output document generation and improved tender and agreement processes.
  • Improving inventory management: prevents stock misallocations and shortages with project-specific inventory tracking using the project allocation dimension.
  • Streamlining document management: automates tagging, classification, and archiving of procurement, project, and fixed asset documents.
  • Reducing integration gaps: integrates D365FSCM with external document management systems to enable centralized document storage, approval workflows, and seamless process automation.
  • Managing financial complexities: simplifies loans, deposits, and accrual calculations, ensuring financial transparency and accuracy.

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