When margins are tight and chaos looms, construction leaders can’t afford sleepless nights

What’s keeping construction leaders up at night – and how to take back control

Deadlines are slipping. Budgets are under pressure. Teams are stretched thin. If you’re leading a construction business today, chances are something is keeping you awake. Materials arrive late. Skilled workers are hard to find. Critical updates are missed. All the while, you’re expected to deliver projects on time, within budget, and without compromising on safety or quality.

At Platned, we work closely with organisations across the construction industry. We understand the pressures of managing multiple priorities, ensuring compliance with regulations, and keeping every construction project moving forward. Our role is to help you regain control through strong project management, construction-ready IFS Cloud™ solutions, and ongoing support that continues long after go-live.

Keep construction projects on track even when plans change

Delays often creep in through small issues. A missed update, unclear communication, or a forgotten task can knock the entire work schedule off course. Platned helps bring clarity and structure to construction management by implementing IFS Cloud™, giving you full visibility over timelines, responsibilities, risks, and progress in one place.

With access to real-time information, your teams align faster. Managers can step in early. Timely decision-making becomes easier and more confident. When everyone is working from the same up-to-date source, project scope and planning becomes more accurate and execution more efficient.

Take control of your budget with live cost visibility

Costs in construction can escalate quickly. Shifts in material prices, labour availability, and changes in scope all impact the bottom line. Platned helps you gain real-time visibility into expenses using IFS Cloud™, with live tracking across procurement, workforce deployment, and contractor costs.

Accurate budgeting means you can identify issues early and make smarter decisions to protect your margins. This is not just about reducing spend. It’s about gaining control before costs spiral and ensuring the financial stability of every project.

Maximise your team’s output with better resource planning

The shrinking pool of skilled labour is a challenge across the construction industry. Stretching limited workers across multiple projects puts everyone under pressure. Platned helps you get more from the people you already have by reducing admin, improving job handovers, and streamlining scheduling.

We also help you reduce the risk of knowledge loss. As experienced construction contractors retire, critical insights often disappear. By embedding standardised processes and structured documentation into IFS Cloud™, Platned helps preserve knowledge across your teams. Every site benefits from consistent ways of working, regardless of who is available.

Plan a realistic timeline and avoid cash flow disruption

Even a healthy project can run into trouble if cash flow is unstable. Payment delays and lack of visibility can stall progress. Platned’s financial planning tools within IFS Cloud™ give you greater control over inflows and outflows, with real-time dashboards and forecasting.

Your finance team can predict shortfalls, act early, and support every phase of the project. Financial decisions become clearer and better informed. With greater visibility, your projects move forward without last-minute funding issues.

Prioritise safety and maintain regulatory compliance

Health and safety on construction sites is critical. One overlooked risk or a gap in compliance can lead to serious consequences. Platned helps you embed safety into every process using IFS Cloud™. Mobile inspections, real-time alerts, and automated compliance tracking make safety a daily habit, not an occasional task.

This proactive approach reduces risk, ensures you meet regulations, and protects your workforce and reputation. Safety becomes part of the culture, not just a checklist.

Adapt to changes without risking disruption

Introducing changes to systems can create uncertainty. Even minor updates can disrupt critical workflows if not properly tested. That’s why Platned offers Mahara, our automated testing platform for IFS Cloud™.

Mahara captures your unique construction management processes and runs repeatable test scenarios in the background whenever changes are made. It identifies problems before they reach your live environment. Whether you are rolling out new features or applying patches, you gain the confidence that operations will continue without interruption.

Streamline invoicing with automation and control

Construction projects involve high volumes of invoices from suppliers, subcontractors, and internal teams. Manual processing causes delays and creates bottlenecks. ParsaAI, Platned’s intelligent document automation platform, solves this.

Fully integrated with IFS Cloud™, ParsaAI captures, verifies, and routes invoices for approval automatically. Your finance team gains speed, accuracy, and oversight. Suppliers get paid on time, errors are reduced, and project budgets remain under control.

Get flexible support that grows with your business

Construction project management doesn’t stop once your system is live. Your business evolves, and your systems need to adapt. Platned’s Gateway support model gives you flexible access to expert help when you need it, without tying you into rigid contracts.

Using a token-based approach, you can request support for reporting, training, feature rollouts, and more. With Platned, your IFS Cloud™ environment continues to support your business needs, with guidance from a team that understands construction inside and out.

Build smarter, plan better, sleep easier

From construction design to final handover, Platned helps you balance cost, quality, compliance, and timelines. With strong project management, real-time insight, and industry-specific tools, you gain control over every part of the process. Whether the challenge is workforce management, scope creep, or risk mitigation, we help you build with greater confidence.

Let’s talk about what’s keeping you up at night.

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