The exact timekeeping of their employees and the corresponding allocation to the respective projects is an essential part of the internal organization for all consulting agencies and engineering firms. Which customer has to be charged with how many hours and additional costs? What is the degree of workload for each individual employee? Which project and which employee contributes to which extent to the company’s economic prosperity? These are only a couple of those questions the management of a consulting business has to cope with. The weyer-group has developed special software allowing a clear and reproducible presentation of the project administration, the timekeeping and the budget tracing. Our software pro-gram PAKO has been developed by consultants for consultants and has been delivering an optimal performance in practice for years. It is not your operational sequences that have to subordinate to the program, but it is the program PAKO that adapts to the structures of your business.

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2. The key area of our program is the project
administration. All important data of
your project, from the tender preparation
through the assignment to the account-
ing procedure, will here be collected.
Each project receives an explicit project
number, budget data and further essen-
tial specifications and will be allocated to
a specific client.
The exact timekeeping of their employees and the corresponding allocation to the respective projects is an essential part
of the internal organization for all consulting agencies and engineering firms. Which customer has to be charged with
how many hours and additional costs? What is the degree of workload for each individual employee? Which project and
which employee contributes to which extent to the company’s economic prosperity? These are only a couple of those
questions the management of a consulting business has to cope with.
The weyer-group has developed special software allowing a clear and reproducible presentation of the project adminis-
tration, the timekeeping and the budget tracing. Our software pro-gram PAKO has been developed by consultants for
consultants and has been delivering an optimal performance in practice for years. It is not your operational sequences
that have to subordinate to the program, but it is the program PAKO that adapts to the structures of your business.
What we offer:
À Project handling and
allocation
À Capacity and project
planning
À Time account
À List of references
1 Project handling and
allocation
The basic module of PAKO serves as a tool
for the administration of the tender data
and the project data, the time recording
and the accounting. In detail, the program
consists of the following main components:
• Tender and project management
• Time recording
• Travel and additional expenses
management
• Accounting management
• Personnel data maintenance
• Permissions management
• Collection of basic data
(e.g. clients roster, business sectors)
• Reports
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3. tion of specific user rights to individual
employees. By means of the report func-
tion you can process and print out all es-
sential data stored in PAKO in a clearly ar-
ranged way.
2 Capacity and project
planning
The module Capacity Planning will enable
you to forecast and optimize the workload
of your staff. Thus, bottlenecks as well as
capacity gaps can be recognized well in
advance and avoided early enough.
The module Project Planning is particularly
useful when you have to deal with larger
projects. It will put you in the position to
recognize at an early phase of your project
whether the allowed budget as well as the
stipulated deadlines can be observed. This
enables you to resort to suitable counter-
measures in due time.
For more complex projects, specific seg-
ments can be defined and displayed in a
well-arranged tree structure.
All employees of your business enter their
accrued hours of work into PAKO. By way
of the corresponding project number,
these hours will be allocated to the re-
spective project.
By means of the lodged hourly rates, these
hours of work can be instantly charged
with the project budget. Hence, by bal-
ancing the budget with the actual costs,
the current financial state of a project is
available at any time.
Your employees can likewise conduct
their travel expense accounting with
PAKO. The accrued expenses will directly
be allocated to the relevant projects.
Apart from the actual hours of project
work, inactive periods due to sick leave or
holiday as well as certain working hours
which cannot be directly allocated to spe-
cific projects can also be accrued. Thus
you will obtain a comprehensive overview
of both your employees’ efficiency and
that of your entire business. The permis-
sions management tool allows the alloca-
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3 Time account
Quite a lot of organisations make use of
time accounts for their employees in order
to cope flexibly with fluctuations in orders.
PAKO enables you to contemplate a variety
of working- hour schemes.
Just one click will give you a concise over-
view of the current status of the time
account for each employee.
4 List of references
When a project has been successfully com-
pleted, it ought to be added to the consul-
tancy firm’s list of references so that it can
be used as a source of information for the
acquisition of new projects. In the course of
years these lists of references might become
quite long, obsolete and confusing.
By means of this module you can, at the
push of a button, generate a list of referenc-
es that is exactly in line with the require-
ments of your offer.
Your benefits:
À Clearly arranged budget control and
project planning
À High level of transparency of your in-
plant processes
À Reduction of administrative work
À Improved management of additional
demands
À Optimization of your accounting
À Improved external communications
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The weyer group is a group-independent corporate association of engineering and con-
sulting companies in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland and the Netherlands.
Since its establishment over 30 years ago, the weyer group has developed a wide range of
expertise which has always been based on the expectations and wishes of our clients.