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Easily generate professional proposals from your Excel estimate worksheets (a how-to webinar)

Spectrum CRM helps commercial contractors win more jobs quickly by combining construction specific CRM with lead management, bid tracking, proposal generation, follow-up plans, drip marketing campaigns, and newsletter email marketing. This is an all-in-one integrated, easy-to-use, and affordable web-based solution.

A majority of companies manually create proposals on the fly, and these proposals lack consistency in format because proposals are created by different people. Spectrum CRM makes it easy to design, build, send, and track your proposals in a consistent manner to produce professional grade proposals every time. Proposal templates utilize industry best practices that include your company’s proposal language and graphics that will set you apart from your competition.

Join us for a brief overview of how to create proposals in Spectrum CRM to see how it can help you automate your sales and marketing efforts.

This webinar will cover how to:

Planning & Progressing Coordination Work in a P6 Schedule

CDP is an Oracle Gold Partner, providing project management solutions in the mid-Atlantic region.Have you had a need to capture cost for coordination and oversight work in a P6 schedule? Would you like this cost to be decreased as work progresses on the project?

This webinar will provide a specific example of setting up a coordination & oversight activity in a P6 schedule. The example will review how a WBS Summary activity with assignments is initially planned. It will then review an option to maintain the cost of the assignments or to adjust the assignments automatically as the schedule changes.

What you will learn:

  • Describe the WBS Summary activity type
  • Review the duration types 'Fixed Duration & Units' and 'Fixed Duration & Units/Time'
  • Compare duration type impact in planning a schedule
  • Compare duration type impact on an in progress activity

 

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How is the Critical Path Calculated

Please join us for this dynamic, fast-paced webinar and earn a free PDH after attending. During the webinar Michael M. Hughes, PE will illustrate how the Critical Path Method (CPM) calculates project schedules from the list of activities and their relationships. The Critical Path is the sequence of project network activities that determines the longest overall project duration. CPM identifies those activities and calculates the Project Completion Date.

The Learning Objectives for the webinar are:

  1. Describe the Critical Path Method for Scheduling
  2. Learn the Methodology of Calculating the Forward and Backward Pass
  3. Learn to Calculate a Schedule and Total Float
  4. Understand How Activities that do not have a Predecessor or Successor (Open Ends) are treated in the CPM Calculation

CDP Senior Consultant, Michael M. Hughes, PE has over 35 years industry experience including consulting engineering, land development, construction, project management, and municipal services. Immediately prior to joining CDP, Michael served as the Assistant Engineer Manager, City of Durham Department of Public Works. In that capacity, he was a leader and visionary and led the effort to automate the Project Management delivery system.

HardDollar Scheduling Integration: Keep Budgets and Schedules in Sync

In this online event, Hard Dollar and CDP will demonstrate how the HD real-time integration with Primavera allows you to make changes that instantly update budgets and schedules, saving calculation time and increasing project accuracy. See how HardDollar + Primavera P6:

  • Create detailed, accurate, cost-loaded schedules
  • React to schedule changes immediately
  • Easily move tasks from estimate to schedule

What you'll learn:

  • How to bring detailed cost, scope, and time together
  • Impact of real-time cost implications of schedule on cash flow
  • Creation of 'what if' scenarios to mitigate cost impact of labor or resource scheduling changes

Who should attend:

  • CFOs, CIOs
  • VPs of Project Controls, Finance, or Procurement
  • Senior Estimators
  • Planners, Schedulers

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