Document Management Solution (DMS)

Challenges:

Construction industry is not only capital intensive industry it is also document intensive. Managing various business documents (engineering drawings, contract documents, legal documents, pre-qualification documents, correspondence, etc.) and standard documents (taxation, legal, power-of-attorney, bank guarantees, court cases, employee documents, etc.) is a Herculean task.

Common challenges in this regard are as follows:

The filing system of physical documents is individual driven. In such cases retrieval of required documents also becomes challenging. Also the time required to search document is unproductive
Tracking ‘change history’ is a challenge for documents like contracts, engineering drawings
Document storage requires significant amount of storage space. Also the documents are susceptible to damage due to ageing

Solution and benefits:

Document management system (DMS) enables to store the documents electronically in a systematic standardized manner across the organization. The key features of DMS are as follows.

Document storage:

The files can be stored in standardized systematic manner across the organization. The documents may be in the form of scanned copies of paper documents, Word/ Excel/ Powerpoint/ AutoCAD files or any other digital format. These files will be stored in a central location (i.e. data-center computer storage).

Easy access and retrieval:

The documents are stored with a standard nomenclature with a well maintained index. Also along with the documents related keywords are stored. The retrieval of documents becomes easier and faster because of these systems as compared to physical documentation. The documents can be accessed from any location because of their digital nature.

Associating workflow with documents:

The progress of a document from one associate/ department to another can be defined in the system. At any point of time the status of the document will be available on the system.

Security of documents:

The access to various documents can be controlled by providing different kinds of authorizations to the users or documents.

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