Contract to cash.
Project to profit.
Athena Project Management is a project and contract management software for construction and engineering. Work breakdown structures, budgets, project purchase orders, milestone invoicing and time booking — with agentic AI predicting cost and schedule drift before it reaches the margin line.
6 integrated modules · Contract-to-cash · One system of record
0.92
Schedule index
▼ 0.08 vs plan
0.94
Cost index
▼ 0.06 vs plan
62%
Physical progress
▲ on plan at P6
Agent activity stream
- AGENT
Schedule Guardian detected MEP on the critical path slipping 6 days; recovery plan drafted.
- AGENT
Procurement raised PO-4471 from task 1.4.2.3 against long-lead riser lead time.
- AGENT
Margin Watch flagged MS-04 invoiced below earned value — 1.2% margin leak.
- READY
Cost Analyst re-forecast EAC to +1.2M over contract value; brief ready for sign-off.
- Integrated modules from contract to cash collection
- 6Integrated modules from contract to cash collection
- Manual re-keying between the project office and finance
- ~0%Manual re-keying between the project office and finance
- System of record for contract, cost, time and delivery
- 1System of record for contract, cost, time and delivery
- Schedule and cost drift detection, always on
- 24/7Schedule and cost drift detection, always on
Overview
The project, the contract and the cost were never the same conversation
Athena links the contract, the plan and work breakdown structure, the estimate, the purchase orders raised against tasks, the time and materials consumed, the milestones invoiced and the budget position — so contract revenue and profit are always visible rather than reconstructed at month end.
One integrated flow, contract to cash
Contract, plan, procurement, time, milestone and ledger on the same record.
Improve accuracy
Cost lands on the work package that planned it, not on a cost code chosen afterwards.
Assess risks
Float, dependency and resource conflicts are calculated rather than guessed.
Complete estimates
Repeatable templates ensure cost is not overlooked at any stage.
The contract-to-cash flow
How the six Athena modules chain together on a single project record
The problem
Four ways projects lose money quietly
None of these show up as a line item until the contract is closed and the margin is fixed. By then every recovery option has been spent.
Disconnection
The plan and the cost are separate systems
Progress is reported from the site and cost is reported from the ledger, in different vocabularies, weeks apart. Nobody reconciles them until the month is closed.
~10 days to close the month
Scope creep
Variations are verbal until it is too late
Additional work is instructed on site and recorded later, if at all. The cost is real; the entitlement is not documented.
Unbilled variations
Late signals
Slippage is discovered at the milestone
By the time a milestone moves, the float that would have absorbed the delay is already consumed and the recovery options are priced out.
Recovery options exhausted
Admin load
The project office is a data-entry department
The people who should be managing risk are transcribing timesheets and re-keying progress reports.
Hours lost to administration
Modules
6 integrated modules. One connected workflow.
Every module below posts to the same data model, and each carries agents that act on it.
Contract Management
- Define contracts
- Contract revenue and profits
- Scope, terms & rate schedule
Project Management
- Projects with WBS
- Estimated materials & resources
- Dependencies, float & duration
Customer Invoicing
- Customer invoices from milestones
- Manual & automated
- Unbilled value visibility
Project Purchase
- Create PO from project tasks
- Record expenses on tasks
- Cost lands on the WBS it belongs to
Budgets & Costs
- Track milestones & deliverables
- Budgets and cost
- Cost variance by work package
Reports
- Customizable reports
- Contract revenue and profits
- Configurable to your own KPIs
“AMC Athena ERP Suite has comprehensive functionalities to execute the contracted projects efficiently and effectively.”
Key features
Capabilities that make the operation actually work
Time Booking (mobile app)
Book time by scanning a barcode, on any Android phone, and distribute the hours across the work orders you are logged into.
Part Movement (mobile app)
Pick, drop and issue to work orders using bar or QR codes. Works in forklifts and trucks, and movements are GPS-tracked.
Agentic AI
From a system of record to a delivery autopilot
Sovereign by design — the agentic layer runs inside your own deployment (on-premise, private cloud or sovereign cloud), against your own operational data, under your own permission model. Your records never leave your jurisdiction.
The project delivery agent loop
Every Athena delivery agent runs this cycle continuously against live project data — never once, always on
The agent roster
Six agents, six modules, one project office that never sleeps
Schedule Guardian
Critical Path Watch
Reads WBS, dependencies, float, actual progress, look-ahead
Reasons Which task drives completion and how much float is left
Acts Re-sequences, re-baselines, raises a recovery plan for approval
Cost Analyst
Earned Value & Forecast
Reads Cost postings, time bookings, commitments, progress claims
Reasons CPI, SPI, EAC, burn rate and where the variance concentrates
Acts Re-forecasts EAC, flags budget breaches, drafts the cost brief
Scope & Change
Variation & Entitlement
Reads Task budget vs actual, contract scope, change history
Reasons Systemic vs one-off overrun; contractual entitlement; time impact
Acts Drafts and prices a change request, routes it for approval
Procurement
Buy & Expedite
Reads Task requirements, MRP position, supplier lead times, PO status
Reasons What must be ordered now; what will arrive late and what it blocks
Acts Raises POs from tasks, expedites, flags or substitutes alternatives
Resources
Capacity & Conflict
Reads Resource bookings, skills, availability, planned look-ahead
Reasons Over-allocations, missing skills, idle plant, cross-project trade-offs
Acts Levels resources, re-sequences tasks, flags overtime and hire needs
Margin Watch
Revenue & Billing
Reads Milestone status, variations, claims, contract value
Reasons Billing lag, margin leakage, unclaimed entitlement, EAC
Acts Prepares milestone invoices, raises claims, briefs revenue and profit
The same project, reviewed the same way — before and after
Manual process
- Site team emails a progress narrative; the project manager re-keys it into a spreadsheet
- Schedule slippage discovered at the monthly meeting — float already consumed
- Variation works get absorbed into the task; no priced change, no entitlement record
- Purchase orders written manually, three weeks after the need was identified on the plan
- Cost reconciliation with finance takes days, and only after period close
- Unbilled milestones surface at final account, when recovery is not possible
- Cycle: 4–6 weeks between a problem occurring and anyone being able to act on it
Athena + delivery agents
- Progress captured on site by barcode; the WBS, cost and revenue position update themselves
- Schedule Guardian flags the driving task and drafts a recovery while float still exists
- Scope & Change agent detects the overrun and raises a priced change request the same day
- Procurement agent raises the PO from the task requirement, sized against real lead times
- Budget versus cost is live by WBS package — no reconciliation step with finance
- Margin Watch chases unbilled milestones continuously, not at final account
- Cycle: minutes from signal to an approved, logged, executed action
Agentic delivery analytics
Ask your project data a question. Get a governed, cited answer.
Athena pairs the project record with an agentic analytics layer that reasons across every WBS package, commitment, timesheet, delivery note, milestone and invoice. Ask it in natural language and it writes the query, runs it, charts it, explains it, and cites the exact records behind the answer — so a number in a board pack is always traceable to its source.
Paired with LucidA — Agentic Analytics, the same capability extends across finance, supply chain and workforce, so project performance is read in the context of the whole enterprise.
Natural-language querying
No report builder — ask in the language the project office already uses.
Predictive forecasting
Projects EAC, slippage and variation volume before they land in the actuals.
Automated progress briefs
Agents write the weekly report: what moved, why, what is at risk, what needs a decision.
Portfolio-wide view
Every project, contract and commitment ranked by exposure in one list.
Which package is losing us money, and is the overrun on the critical path?
Agent answered · 1.1s · 5 sources cited
- MEP installation is the single worst package: CPI 0.81, having consumed 112% of its budget at 64% physical progress.
- It is on the critical path — the riser long-lead order was raised 19 days after the task required it.
- Of the overrun, 71% traces to rework on riser penetrations logged against task 3.4.1.2 across 6 bookings.
- 4 milestones now at risk (MS-05 to MS-08) and MS-04 invoiced below earned value by 1.2%.
- Recommended: expedite the remaining riser batch, raise a variation for the rework, and re-sequence commissioning to recover 11 of the 14 lost days.
Agent-scored delivery risk
Probability against impact, re-scored continuously from cost, schedule and change history
Full action audit trail
Every agent decision records its inputs, reasoning and the action taken.
Commercial approval gates
Variations, re-baselines and milestone invoices pass a named human gate.
Sovereign data residency
Contract values and cost build-ups never leave your jurisdiction.
Adjustable autonomy
Advise-only, then draft, then autonomous — change it without redeploying.
Analytics
Know the true position, not the last one
Earned value analysis, schedule performance and cost performance, available by task, work package, project and contract.
Earned value analysis
Cumulative value through the project to date
Schedule performance
EV / PV
Cost performance
EV / AC
Milestone billing status
Billed vs earned, by milestone
Contract revenue & profit
Live position
Portfolio delivery scorecard
Configurable across the project portfolio — management review, client reporting or bid/no-bid analysis
- Milestones completed on programme78%
- Tasks booked to the correct WBS package97%
- Purchase orders raised from task requirement88%
- Progress claims submitted within 30 days94%
- Variations priced before execution61%
- Material issued by barcode, not paperwork99%
- Projects with CPI at or above 1.072%
- Contract margin within approved tolerance86%
ERP suite
Project Management sits inside the ERP, not beside it
A project task can raise a purchase order that flows to purchasing and accounts payable; approved time feeds payroll and costing; contract revenue and profit post to the general ledger. No parallel reporting, no re-keying.
SCM
Supply Chain — requisitions, POs, receipting and supplier management.
FIN
Finance — GL, AR, AP, cash and configurable tax.
HR
HRMS — payroll, leave, time and attendance.
EAM
Asset Management — plant and equipment, maintenance, calibration.
MFG
Manufacturing — fabrication and assembly against the project.
PM
Project Management — the WBS, the plan, the budget and the estimate.
QA
Quality Assurance — audits, non-conformities and corrective action.
P&S
Planning & Scheduling — demand, MPS and material requirements.
PLT
Plant Management — production, despatch and site logistics.
Where it applies
Anywhere work is delivered against a contract
Construction and engineering are the primary fit, but the requirement is simpler: a contract, a budget and a completion date.
Implementation
Live in weeks, not quarters
A pilot in eight to twelve weeks, then scale by site, function and route.
Discovery
Contract structures, estimating method, WBS standards and billing rules.
Configure
Templates, cost codes, milestone rules, approval paths and KPIs.
Integrate
Finance, payroll, procurement and any legacy project data.
Pilot
One project, live from estimate to first milestone invoice.
Go live
Extend project by project, then portfolio by portfolio.
Any device, anywhere
Site time booking and part movement on the handset in your pocket.
Live cost, not month-end
Variance by work package while the work is still open.
Sovereign & secure
On-premise, private cloud or sovereign cloud in your region.
Outcomes
What changes in the first project year
↓ 70%
Month-end reconciliation
↑ 3×
Earlier risk detection
100%
Variations priced before execution
Indicative outcomes from typical deployments. Actual results depend on scope, data quality and process maturity.
FAQ
Project & Contract Management — frequently asked questions
The questions procurement, security and engineering ask before the first call.
What is project and contract management software?
It is one integrated system that manages the commercial and delivery life of a project, from contract signature to cash collection. It links the contract, the project plan and work breakdown structure, the estimate of materials and resources, the purchase orders raised against project tasks, the time and materials actually consumed, the milestones used to invoice the customer, and the budget and cost position — so that contract revenue and profit are always visible rather than reconstructed at month end.
Which modules does Athena Project Management include?
Six integrated modules. Contract Management defines contracts and tracks contract revenue and profit. Project Management builds projects with a work breakdown structure and estimated materials and resources. Customer Invoicing raises invoices from milestones, manually or automatically. Project Purchase creates purchase orders from project tasks and records expenses against those tasks. Budgets and Costs track milestones, deliverables, budgets and cost. Reports delivers customisable reports on contract revenue and profit. Field execution is supported by mobile time booking and part movement applications.
Can Athena build a project with a work breakdown structure?
Yes. Projects are created with a work breakdown structure so that deliverables, activities, materials and resources are decomposed to the level of detail your estimating and reporting require. Dependencies, durations and resources are held against the structure, which is what allows schedule performance, float and resource conflicts to be calculated rather than guessed. Standard and repeatable templates ensure costs are not overlooked at any stage.
How do you raise a purchase order from a project task?
Purchase orders are created directly from project tasks, so a requirement identified on the plan becomes a committed order without re-keying. Expenses are then recorded against the same tasks, which means the cost of the project accumulates at the level of the work breakdown structure that planned it — and budget versus actual is always available by task, work package, project and contract.
How does milestone billing work in Athena?
Customer invoices are raised from milestones on the project, either manually or automatically. Milestones, deliverables and their progress are tracked in the same module that tracks budget and cost, so the billed amount, the earned value and the recognised contract revenue stay consistent. Unbilled milestone value is visible on the dashboard, which matters because unbilled value and unpriced variations are two of the most common causes of margin leakage on construction projects.
Does Athena support earned value management?
Yes. Because time booking, part movement, purchasing and invoicing all post into the same project structure, Athena can calculate planned value, earned value and actual cost, and from them the schedule performance index, the cost performance index and the estimate at completion. Variance is available by task, work package, project and contract, and the cost analyst agent re-forecasts the estimate at completion continuously as new cost and progress data arrives.
How do the mobile time booking and part movement apps work?
The time booking mobile app lets operatives book time by scanning a barcode, works on any Android phone, and distributes the hours worked across the work orders they are logged into. The part movement app supports picking, dropping and issuing items to work orders, moving items between locations and picking for shipments, using barcodes or QR codes. Devices can be used in forklifts and trucks and movements tracked through GPS — so a material discrepancy becomes a traceable movement record rather than an unexplained variance.
How does agentic AI automate project delivery?
Athena deploys goal-driven agents that run a continuous sense, reason, plan, act and learn cycle over live project data. They sense slippage, erosion and unbilled value on the critical path, budget and contract; reason about the real driver — float, lead time, rework, scope growth or a resource conflict; plan recovery options and choose the cheapest path that protects the date; and act inside the workflow your project office already uses, by re-baselining tasks, raising POs from task requirements, revising budgets, routing priced change requests, re-allocating resources and preparing milestone invoices. Every action is permissioned, logged and reversible.
Does Athena Project Management integrate with ERP and finance?
Yes. Project Management sits inside the AMC Athena ERP suite alongside Supply Chain, Finance Management, HRMS, Asset Management, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance and Planning and Scheduling. A project task can create a purchase order that flows to purchasing and accounts payable, approved time feeds payroll and costing, and contract revenue and profit post to the general ledger. That means no parallel reporting and no re-keying between the project office and the finance department.
Which industries is Athena Project Management built for?
Construction and engineering are the primary fit, and project manufacturing is a core use case. The same modules are used across aviation and defence programmes, aircraft MRO, oil and gas capital projects, field service, manufacturing plants, water and utilities, and trading and distribution operations — anywhere work is delivered against a contract, a budget and a completion date.
Can Athena Project Management be deployed on-premise?
Yes. Athena is architected as a sovereign platform and can be deployed on-premise, in a private cloud, or in a sovereign cloud region. This matters for construction and engineering groups where contract values, cost build-ups and commercial terms are commercially sensitive, and for defence and national oil and gas projects where data residency is a contractual requirement. The agentic layer runs inside the same deployment, against your own data, under your own permission model.
See project & contract management run on Athena
We will configure a working scenario around an operation like yours, switch the agentic layer on live, and let you judge it against real work rather than a slide.
A working demo, not a slideshow
Configured around a scenario like yours.
Sovereign deployment options
On-premise, private cloud or sovereign cloud.
Phased rollout
Pilot first, then scale by site and function.
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