Case Study: Lerch Bates Inc. achieves higher project profitability and accurate timekeeping with Deltek Vision

International consulting firm increases project profitability with Deltek Vision

Lerch Bates Inc., an international architecture/engineering/construction consulting firm with 25 field offices and multiple business lines and subsidiaries, faced fragmented systems that prevented accurate timekeeping, project-level profitability measurement, multi-office collaboration and consistent reporting. Maintaining separate general ledger and project accounting applications, limited mobility and ad hoc reporting left the firm unable to reliably track contracts, risks and reimbursable expenses.

After evaluating six ERP solutions, Lerch Bates implemented Deltek Vision to integrate project accounting and general ledger, centralize time and expense capture, and enable role-based, multi-currency reporting and workflows. The implementation delivered vastly improved timekeeping and real-time profitability insights, stronger contract controls, flexible business intelligence through user-defined fields, and better resource visibility and project performance across offices.

Lerch Bates Inc.

John Arther

Chief Financial Officer