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Company Overview
Fuss and O'Neill provides the solutions that clients need for their specialized projects. We provide the same focus and expertise to small, straightforward, single-discipline projects as we do to large, complex, multi-discipline ones. Headquartered in Manchester, CT and founded in 1924, the company has grown to include ten regional offices, one LLC and over 320 employees. Our professional staff maintains licenses and certifications across a wide range of engineering, planning, landscape architecture, design build, scientific and manufacturing disciplines.
With 1,000 client invoices each month for project managers to review, engineering firm Fuss O’Neill was looking for a way to speed the review process. “We were sending paper drafts to project managers spread across our six offices,” said Joe Cardinale, staff accountant who oversees the outbound invoicing process. “PMs would mark-up the drafts and send them back, which took about a week and then we received them all at once. We needed a better way,” he said.
Why EleVia Software
The right product at the right time
When one of his colleagues came back from the Deltek Insight conference with information about EleVia Electronic Invoicing, Cardinale got excited. “EleVia’s add-on product for Deltek Vision® was exactly what we needed. It speeds billing by automating the invoice review process,” he said.
“Project managers like the product because they can drill down to A/R, cost and all the information they need to review invoices.”
Cardinale explained that now project managers get a notice when they have draft invoices to review. They simply log into Vision and can see the invoices and a grid with all their project data at once. “Project managers like it because they can drill down to A/R, cost and all the information they need to review invoices,” he said.
“Even the Project Directors have noticed that our PMs are happier since we implemented EleVia Electronic Invoicing.” Another benefit is that PMs can review one or two invoices at a time and accounting is automatically notified when the invoices are ready, vs. waiting to get all the reviewed invoices back at once.
The result? With EleVia Electronic Invoicing, invoices are reviewed two to four days faster, Cardinale said. And the firm has reduced paper usage and costs. “Now there are no client invoices to file because they’re all electronic.”
Tailored to their needs
During a three-month beta phase, Cardinale worked with EleVia to fine tune the product to match the firm’s needs and business processes. “We added some columns, stamps and stages so the product was more aligned with our processes,” he explained. “Each time we discovered a new item we wanted adjusted, EleVia was on top of it right away.”
Minimal training required
When Fuss & O’Neill rolled out EleVia Electronic Invoicing, Cardinale went on the road conducting training sessions at each of the firm’s offices. “I’d spend 30 minutes to an hour showing project managers the system and by the next week, they were using it,” he said. “Frankly, the system is so easy to use that anybody could figure it out without training.”
“EleVia knows how to make products work harmoniously with Vision.”
Cardinale credits the software’s intuitiveness to EleVia’s deep knowledge of Deltek Vision. “They know how to make products work harmoniously with Vision.
Fuss & O'Neill later purchased EleVia Payables Approval & Tracking to enhance their incoming invoice process.