Arrest Margin Leaks in Your Interior Fit-Out Business
From Bid to Billing: A Live Walkthrough of Cost Control in Fit-Out Projects
Watch one continuous project run across all six links: budget, procurement, work orders, change orders, billing, and reporting, on a single connected platform in NB Projects.
Webinar Details:
Friday, 23 October 2026
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM IST
Microsoft Teams
Stop Letting Profit Slip Through Disconnected Project Links
Every fit-out project runs on a chain and every link is where margin quietly leaks:
“Bid” → “Budget” → “Buy” → “Build” → “Change” → “Bill” → “Report”
Most fit-out contractors manage these stages in isolation: estimates built in disconnected spreadsheets, procurement committed without budget checks, subcontractor measurements logged on paper, and change orders that never make it to an invoice.
This session shows what happens when all six links run on one connected platform, demonstrated as a single continuous project from the first estimate to the final P&L report.
What You'll See: 6 Live System Demonstrations
Baseline Budget Control
Lock a baseline budget and flag it at every purchase and work order that risks breaching it.
BoQ-Linked Procurement
Streamline vendor management with direct PO, ASN, and GRN reconciliation via a unified portal.
Digital M-Book Measurement
Eliminate subcontractor billing disputes with transparent, digitized tracking.
Comprehensive Change Management
Capture every change order, billable or non-billable, with a full audit trail.
Accelerated Cash Flow
Speed up Running Account (RA) billing, retention releases, and invoicing cycles.
Real-Time P&L Reporting
Access an executive-level project P&L dashboard your leadership team can rely on every Monday morning.
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Industry Benchmarks: Where Fit-Out Margins Actually Leak
Here’s what happens across the project lifecycle when the six links aren’t connected:
Metric
Industry Reality
Cost Overruns
68% of fit-out projects experience overruns, rooted in uncontrolled baseline budgets.
Material Delays
34% of interior projects face delays caused by procurement executed without budget checks.
Subcontractor Disputes
Untracked work order measurement is a leading cause of billing disputes and delayed subcontractor payments.
Lost Revenue
~12% of potential revenue is lost due to poorly documented or untracked change orders.
Payment Cycles
75 days is the average industry payment cycle length.
Issue Discovery
30 to 45 days pass before project issues are typically identified by management.
This webinar walks through the field-tested resolution for each link, step-by-step.
Featured Speakers & Field Experts
Prakash Kandaraj — Director, Sales & Marketing, Cetas Information Technology
Prakash works closely with fit-out and interior contracting businesses across India, the Middle East, and APAC, helping improve project profitability, delivery visibility, and operational control through digital transformation initiatives and Microsoft Dynamics. He will open the session by introducing global industry trends, the ERP platform, and the solution overview, setting the context for the webinar.
Director, Sales & Marketing,
Cetas Information Technology
Sudharsan N — Product Manager, Cetas Information Technology
Sudharsan leads product strategy and functional design for Cetas Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central ISV portfolio. Combining deep domain expertise with customer field learnings, he designs purpose-built software workflows for construction and fit-out firms. In this session, Sudharsan will lead the live system walkthrough from bid creation to final P&L reporting.
Product Manager,
Cetas Information Technology
Who Will Benefit Most From This Session?
This session is designed specifically for key decision-makers at fit-out and interior contracting firms, including Owners and Founders, Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), Project Directors and Delivery Leads, Procurement Heads, and Quantity Surveying (QS) and Estimation Heads. It’s also relevant for MEP/HVAC and General Contracting facing the same margin control challenges.
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