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A practitioner’s view of your costs, your cash and your tools

Management control, public contracts, cash, ERP and AI projects: we work with construction, transport, asphalt plant and industrial companies. We start from your figures as they actually are, and leave your teams methods, file templates and procedures they can apply on their own.

  • Management control
  • Public contracts and price revision
  • Cash and working capital
  • ERP and AI projects
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Ways of working

From a one-off review to ongoing support

  1. Short diagnostic

    One specific issue

    An outside view on a focused question: your reporting, your budgeting process, your cost price, your price revisions or your cash plan. You come away with a written assessment and clear priorities.

  2. Project

    Defined scope and deliverables

    A piece of work defined from the outset: setting up a budgeting method, redesigning a reporting pack, preparing an ERP project and migrating data. Deliverables and timetable are agreed before we start.

  3. Monthly support

    Ongoing

    Regular support for your finance director or management control team: monthly reporting, variance review, cash follow-up, preparation for management committee meetings and, for contractors, monitoring of price revisions and guarantees.

Scope, timetable and terms agreed together after a first conversation, on a quotation basis.

Areas of expertise

Six subjects we know from the inside

For managing directors, finance directors, management controllers, operations managers and contracts teams in construction, transport, asphalt plants, industry and services. Each subject can be handled as a diagnostic, a project or ongoing support.

The industries we work with

  • Management control

    In construction, a budgeting method that runs from the schedule of rates to monitoring work on site. In transport, profitability per truck and fuel against standards. In a plant or workshop, cost per tonne and material control. Everywhere: indicators, allocation keys, monthly reporting, budget and variance analysis.

  • Reporting audit and redesign

    A review of an existing Power BI dashboard or Excel reporting pack: report catalogue, duplicate or conflicting indicators, navigation, slow refreshes. Mock-ups of the new pages, an estimate of the Power BI licences needed and, where it makes sense, a web reporting app as an alternative.

  • Public contracts and price revision

    For contractors: a practical reading of the special conditions (CPS) and the general conditions for works (CCAG-Travaux), interim and final payment certificates, retention, revision formulas, indices and K coefficients, bid and performance guarantees through to release, payment terms and late-payment interest.

  • Cash and working capital

    Cash plan by site, business line and company, outstanding customer and supplier invoices, work done not yet invoiced and stock, early sight of the cash low point, and scenarios compared for the management committee.

  • ERP projects and data migration

    Before an ERP is chosen or goes live: process mapping, coding of items, sites or trucks, data cleansing, user profiles and approval workflows. When migrating your Excel workbooks, our method is simple: every migrated file is reconciled with its source down to the last centime before it is loaded, and every gap is explained.

  • AI adoption strategy and governance

    Choosing the use cases worth pursuing, data access rules (read-only, human approval, activity log), what can be entrusted to an online AI service and what should not, then supporting teams through their first uses.

Approach

A practitioner alongside you, not another report

Our consulting draws on hands-on experience of management control, public contracts and reporting, in construction as well as in transport and production. Four principles guide every engagement.

  1. Start from your real figures

    Your files, contracts and site or operations reports, as they are kept today. Figures are reconciled across departments before any conclusion is drawn.

  2. Leave tools, not just advice

    Every recommendation comes with the method, file or procedure needed to apply it, in the formats your teams already use.

  3. Stay software-neutral

    We make software, but a consulting engagement is not a sales pitch. If your current tool is good enough, we will tell you.

  4. Flag what is missing

    Missing data stays missing; an unexplained gap is flagged. An incomplete but accurate finding is worth more than a massaged figure.

Method

From scoping to implementation

Four stages, each signed off with you before moving on. A short diagnostic stops at the recommendations; a project can go through to implementation.

  1. Understand

    Scoping

    A first conversation to understand your organisation, the question at hand and your constraints. We agree the scope, the people involved, the documents needed and the way of working.

    • Written scope and objectives
    • List of documents and access needed
    • Agreed format and timetable

  2. Analyse

    Diagnostic

    Interviews with senior management, the management control team, operations, site teams or the contracts department, and a review of your files, contracts and reports. Figures are reconciled before any conclusion is drawn.

    • Written findings, backed by figures
    • Gaps and risks ranked
    • Priorities agreed with management

  3. Propose

    Recommendations and tools

    For each priority, a concrete recommendation and the tool that makes it workable: a method, a file template, a dashboard or a procedure.

    • Action plan by priority
    • Methods and file templates
    • Presentation to management

  4. Hand over

    Implementation and handover

    We put what has been agreed in place with your teams, on your own data, then hand everything over to them. Monthly support can follow.

    • Tools running on your data
    • Procedures and documentation
    • Handover to your teams

Deliverables

What you get

Documents and files your teams can pick up and keep running without us, not a slide deck that ends up in a drawer.

  • Findings and an action plan

    What works, what is holding things up and why, backed by figures. Actions are ranked by priority, with a suggested owner for each.

    For example

    • Findings note
    • Prioritised action plan
    • Presentation deck

  • Documented methods

    Calculation and operating rules are written down, so results no longer depend on a single person.

    For example

    • Budgeting method
    • Indicator dictionary
    • Reconciliation rules
    • Data migration rules

  • Files and spreadsheets you can use

    Ready-to-use templates, built on your own data and checked with you before handover.

    For example

    • Site or business-line budget
    • Cash plan and scenarios
    • Cost per tonne
    • Profitability per truck
    • Price revision calculation
    • Guarantee tracker

  • Procedures

    Who does what, when and with which check: short procedures fitted to your organisation and approval workflows.

    For example

    • Monthly reporting calendar
    • Budget approval workflow
    • Control checklists

Delivered in your formats

  • Excel
  • Power BI
  • Word
  • PowerPoint
  • PDF

FAQ

Before you get in touch

Three: a short diagnostic on a specific question, a project with a defined scope and deliverables, or monthly support for your finance director or management control team. We choose the format together during scoping. A diagnostic can lead to a project, but it does not have to.

Yes. Management control, cash, reporting and ERP projects matter just as much in transport and logistics, asphalt and materials plants, industry, distribution and services. The indicators change (margin per site, profitability per truck, cost per tonne, margin per job); the method stays the same. Only public contracts and price revision are specific to contractors.

On a quotation basis, after a first conversation. The price depends on the scope, the deliverables expected and the time needed on your premises. The quotation, issued before any work starts, sets out what is included.

We only ask for the documents relevant to the question at hand, and we work on copies without modifying your source files. Sensitive data (bank accounts, employees’ personal data, passwords) stays out of the deliverables. A confidentiality agreement can be signed before any documents are exchanged.

Both. Interviews, workshops and the final presentation are best held on your premises; file analysis and follow-up can be done remotely. We are based in Rabat and agree any travel during scoping.

No. A consulting engagement starts from the tools you already use: Excel, your business software, your ERP or Power BI. If one of our products meets a need we have identified, such as Rivena Projects for costing and execution budgets, or Rivena Equipment for cost per truck, we will show it to you. The choice is yours.

No. We provide a practical reading of your contracts: the CPS, the CCAG-Travaux, Decree No. 2-22-431, and the rules on price revision and on payment terms. The aim: to know what you are owed, by when, and how to claim it. A dispute or a question of interpretation is a matter for your lawyer; we can prepare the figures for them.

We prepare the project: requirements, coding, data cleansing and migration, approval workflows. Configuration and go-live are the responsibility of the chosen vendor or integrator: Rivena if you choose Rivena ERP, another provider otherwise. Either way, before go-live we check with you that the migrated data is complete and reconciled with your original files.

Going further

From advice to tools

When a recommendation calls for a dashboard, a piece of software or an assistant, we can build or supply that too.

Let’s talk about how you work.

Tell us about your business, how your organisation runs and what you want to improve. We’ll then suggest a concrete next step — a demo, a call or a scoping session — with no obligation.

Tell us what you need

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