IT solutions for railway industry

In recent years, the Polish railway sector started to develop. Railway management sees the need to invest not only in new railway compositions, but also in infrastructure - its expansion, renovation and modernization. It is the perfect time for companies providing construction services for the railway sector, but also the moment of truth if these companies are prepared to handle new challenges?

Enterprises conduct extremely complex activities: building and modernization of railway tracks, building railway stations and other facilities of the railway services, building security platforms and unburden protections for the needs of the construction of tunnels or overpasses , surface diagnostics and a range of specialist works concerning telecommunications, electricity and sanitary installations. All these activities have quite different peculiarities, that is why companies that have such a wide range of services, need special support in the planning of activities , proper realization of various projects and managing in all areas of the company in such way that the organization could be developed harmoniously and could strengthen its market position.
 
Solutions
An excellent support for companies working in the railway construction sector is Microsoft Dynamics AX. The secret of its effectiveness lies in the complexity of action. As companies offer their customers a "full-service" the system reaches most areas of the company functionality:
 
  • easier preparation of the tender bid , project management, settlements, materials ordering, coordination of work;
  • optimizes the use of machines and workers work time, as well as many other activities;
  • software includes analytical applications, thanks to which basing on archival data from the previous realizations it can be assessed how much time the realization of particular projects will take, and what their cost will be , how many people must be recruited and what amount of materials should be ordered;
  • if several different orders are received simultaneously, the system identifies and compares their profitability, so the company can quickly prioritize actions and choose only the most profitable tasks.