How detailed should project structures be?

Detailed enough for meaningful cost control, no more. Excessive task breakdown makes time capture burdensome and reporting noisy.

Why does late timesheet entry matter?

Because project cost visibility depends on it. Overruns discovered after completion cannot be managed; weekly capture makes intervention possible.

How does a project management engagement start?

With a short discovery conversation and a written view of scope, risk and the decisions to be made. That view is useful to you whether or not the work continues.

How is a project management engagement priced?

Scope and, where relevant, rules of engagement are agreed in writing before any work begins, and the engagement is a fixed fee for that scope or phased with a cost envelope per phase — so you know the cost and the boundaries up front. Larger pieces of work are broken into phases with findings delivered early rather than a single invoice at the end.

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Project Management

We design ERP project management so project cost and revenue are visible while the work is still in progress and something can be done about them. That rests on a project and task structure detailed enough for meaningful control but no more, since excessive breakdown makes time capture a chore and reporting noise. Time and cost capture are made quick and close to when work happens, because cost visibility is only as current as the last timesheet. Progress measurement, revenue recognition and billing are configured consistently, so margin is reported honestly throughout rather than revealed at the end.

In short

ERP project management tracks project structure, budgets, costs, billing and revenue recognition. Its value is in making cost and revenue visible during delivery, when there is still time to act, rather than at completion when an overrun is only a finding.

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What we do

The work inside project management.

Project structure and budgeting

We design project and task structures with budgets held at a level that supports real cost control without drowning in detail. The right granularity is what makes variance meaningful while keeping capture and reporting manageable.

Time and cost capture

We make time and cost capture quick and close to when the work happens, so the cost position is current rather than weeks stale. Timely capture is the difference between managing an overrun as it forms and discovering it once it is already fixed.

Progress and revenue recognition

We configure progress measurement and revenue recognition on a consistent basis, so reported margin reflects the state of the work. Consistency here is what keeps revenue honest across projects and periods and clean for audit.

Billing and profitability

We design milestone and time-based billing to track delivery closely and report profitability by project. Billing that keeps pace with the work protects cash flow and surfaces the projects quietly losing money while there is still time to respond.

What you receive

Deliverables, in writing.

Documented output your teams keep and can act on without us in the room.

Project structure and budgeting design
Time and cost capture configuration
Progress and revenue recognition configuration
Billing process and profitability reporting

When this work helps

You may be facing this.

Project overruns are discovered at completion
Timesheets are entered weeks late
Billing lags delivery

How an engagement runs

Discover, assess, design, deliver.

01
Discover
Understand the business drivers, decision rights, existing systems, and what the programme must genuinely change. We separate the outcomes that justify the investment from features that only sound useful, so the programme has a purpose to steer by.
02
Assess
Review process, data, integration, controls, governance, and change readiness against the plan. We report plainly where the plan holds and where it depends on assumptions that need evidence before commitment.
03
Design
Set out target processes, control requirements, data approach, integration model, and adoption plan. Each is documented well enough to build to and to hold a delivery partner accountable against.
04
Deliver
Support configuration, testing, cutover, and stabilisation, with independent oversight throughout. We hold the line on scope, data readiness, and controls, and surface drift while there is still time to correct it.

Where we work

Delhi, India — and wherever the work is.

Fidova provides ERP consulting from Delhi, India, and supports multi-entity and multi-country ERP programmes internationally, including businesses with different statutory and reporting requirements per region.

Engagements run in English, are scheduled around your time zone, and can be delivered remotely end to end, with on-site time planned where a phase genuinely benefits from being in the room.

Related services

Often needed alongside this.

Asset Management

ERP asset management tracks fixed assets, depreciation, maintenance and disposal across their life. A register that cannot be tied back to the physical assets it claims to represent eventually fails audit, however tidy it looks on screen.

Quality Management

ERP quality management handles inspection, non-conformance, corrective action and traceability. The test of a design is a recall question: whether you can trace an affected batch through to the customers shipped in minutes, or only after days of manual investigation.

Vendor Management

ERP vendor management holds supplier records, terms, performance data and compliance documentation. It is also where a specific fraud lives: payment diversion almost always exploits a weak bank-detail change process rather than anything more exotic.

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