Project-Based ERP Software
Percent-complete revenue, milestone billing, estimate-at-completion, and contract-level cost rollup — built for US shipbuilders, large-format fabricators, capital-equipment manufacturers, and infrastructure builders.
Project-based manufacturing breaks the assumptions every transactional ERP makes. There's no 'shippable unit' — there's a contract. Revenue isn't recognized at shipment — it's recognized as work progresses. Cost doesn't roll up to a SKU — it accumulates against a contract or work breakdown structure. Backlog isn't open sales orders — it's contract value remaining.
Volvsoft builds custom project-based ERP for US manufacturers whose business model is contracts, not SKUs. We model contract / WBS hierarchies, percent-complete revenue, milestone billing, estimate-at-completion, and earned value as first-class concepts — not awkward extensions of a make-to-stock platform.
What you get
Contract / WBS hierarchy
Multi-level work breakdown structure per contract. Cost, schedule, and scope managed at any level.
Percent-complete revenue (ASC 606 / IFRS 15)
Cost-to-cost or milestone-based percent-complete with automated revenue recognition entries to your GL.
Estimate-at-completion (EAC) & ETC
Live EAC and ETC calculated from earned value data. Variance reporting at any WBS level.
Milestone billing
Customer billing tied to milestone achievement, deliverable acceptance, or progress measurement.
Earned value management (EVM)
PV, EV, AC tracking with CPI and SPI. Aligned to ANSI/EIA 748 for DoD and federal contracts.
Contract change orders
Customer change orders priced, approved, and propagated through cost, schedule, and revenue forecast.
Industries we build project ERP for
Project-based ERP serves a specific group of manufacturing operations. We've built for each:
- Shipbuilding and naval contracts — multi-year, milestone-billed, often DoD
- Large-format fabrication — pressure vessels, transformers, turbines, generators
- Capital equipment — process machinery, packaging lines, custom industrial systems
- Infrastructure manufacturing — modular construction, prefab buildings, bridge components
- Defense systems — major DoD program work with EVM requirements
EVM and federal contract reporting
Federal manufacturing contracts often require ANSI/EIA 748 EVM compliance. The ERP has to produce the reports without a separate scheduling tool replicating the data.
- Cost / schedule / scope baseline at the WBS / control account level
- Performance measurement baseline (PMB) with variance analysis
- PV, EV, AC tracking with weekly or monthly performance reporting
- CPR / IPMR report generation in DoD-accepted formats
- Independent estimate at completion (IEAC) calculations and variance
Schedule integration
Project ERP that doesn't integrate with project scheduling becomes a separate system that operations works around. We integrate at the data layer.
- Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, Open Plan — schedule data sync
- WBS structure shared between schedule and cost
- Activity-level cost and earned value flowing to schedule
- Schedule variance feeds ETC recalculation
- Resource leveling between projects to maximize plant utilization
Frequently asked questions
How does this differ from project ERP like Deltek Costpoint or Unanet?
Deltek Costpoint and Unanet are strong DoD-government project ERP platforms. We're an alternative when the per-user pricing or implementation cost is unjustified for the operation, when manufacturing-specific functionality (BOM, MRP, shop floor) is needed alongside project accounting, or when the project pattern is too unique for the vendor templates.
Can this handle EVM for DoD contracts?
Yes — ANSI/EIA 748 32-criteria EVM with the reporting outputs DoD acquisition requires. Validation supports DCMA EVMS surveillance.
What about subcontractor management?
Subcontractor cost flows into the contract cost structure. Subcontractor performance tracked per their portion of the WBS. Major subs participate via supplier portal with their own progress reporting.
How does this integrate with our manufacturing operations?
WBS-aligned work orders flow to the shop floor; production data flows back to the WBS. Plant capacity is allocated by project rather than infinite. Engineering changes ripple through cost, schedule, and revenue forecast automatically.
Related solutions
Other Volvsoft platforms US manufacturers commonly pair with this one.
Industries we serve
Manufacturing verticals where Volvsoft has shipped production systems for US clients.
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