There often appear to be tensions between these two services.

Your consultants ask you what on earth the salesperson has sold this time and how they're going to manage to stay within the budget! The salesperson doesn't understand what the project team is moaning about while he's working his socks off to get the contracts in!

Obviously, the company needs all its human resources to succeed. These two services are at worst doomed to work together and at best to enrich each other.

The service sector is the one that is most affected by the differences between production and invoicing. Although the manufacturing of goods involves a more direct link, a more immediate and concrete correlation between production and invoicing, the service sector requires more complex financial management. Some work phases resulting in the production of a service do not give rise to production that is immediate or directly quantifiable.

In order to take back the control of the management of your company, it's essentiel to tackle the required digital and organisational transformations involved. There is bound to be a "business" management software package to meet your needs. Here are the rules to follow for a successful project:

We all have major events that are unmissable in our professions. In our case, we were delighted to participate in a go-to annual event: the FORUM DIMO which was held at the Congress Centre in Lyon on 5 April 2016. It's a chance to discuss and share experience on good management practices and organisation in business, and to participate in conferences and themed workshops. The discussion this year, more than ever, was centred around the "digital company".

An Analysis

Along with the product, a technical documentation should be delivered with technical instructions, installation guides, user manuals, online helps, etc. But this is not always the case today.

It's hard being an ERP these days, all sorts of things are said about them, so are they justified, or not. Budget in overload, deadlines overrun, rigidity... Is that still the case? Among these preconceived ideas, let's take a look at non-compliance with schedules.

Faced with the current economic environment, CFOs are placing management planning at the centre of their preoccupations. In most companies, the indicators that enable future planning are much in demand and deeply analysed. Let's look at these new best practices which more and more CFOs have adopted.

Reforecasting (or budget flexing) and rolling forecasts (or continuous budgets) are much used in service companies and are modern tools that update financial management and introduce agility into the traditional budgeting cycle. Let's take a look at these advanced and indispensable forecasting techniques in management by project.

Dashboards, those essential tools for financial management, no longer offer static views and offer a whole in-depth array of analyses.

Choosing an ERP is a crucial exercise for any company. It will be the axis around which all the company's activities revolve. So, for groups with subsidiaries, the search is bound to be for so-called "multi-company" ERP systems. However, behind this name lurk very different realities that may complicate rather than facilitate the work of employees.