Hidacs · ControlWise

See what’s happening on site, before it hits your budget.

ControlWise connects daily site reports, purchase orders, deliveries and invoices in one system — so the site and the office work from the same numbers, in real time.

Built for consortiums, joint ventures and alliances: when several construction firms join forces to build one project — a motorway, a railway line, a hospital — they need to share costs, orders and approvals without merging their books or exposing their numbers to each other. ControlWise gives every partner company its own private view inside one shared system.

Site manager on a construction site holding a rugged tablet showing the ControlWise dashboard, cranes and tunnel works behind
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Follow the money, step by step

Five stops between deciding to spend and actually paying — each one recorded, each one approved by the right person.

1
Budget
What’s planned for each part of the project
2
Purchase orders
What’s been committed to a supplier
3
Deliveries
What actually arrived on site
4
Invoices
What the supplier is billing for
5
Payment
What’s cleared to be paid
Budgets

Know where the money is going, before it’s spent

Every part of the project has a budget. As purchase orders go out and invoices come in, you see planned cost, committed cost, and actual cost side by side — updated as the work happens, not weeks later.

  • Target costs set once per activity, in a shared code structure — the same codes appear on purchase orders, site reports and invoices
  • Monthly planning by project and work area, with a running forecast to completion
  • One chart showing planned vs. earned vs. spent over time, plus what is physically still in stock on site
  • Open book: every partner reads the same budget figures, so the total on screen is the total that was signed off
  • Close a month and it is frozen — the table is archived as it stood, and can be re-opened later exactly as it was read at the time
  • Each budget code carries its own comment thread, dated and signed — the explanation for a variance stays next to the figure
  • Every export is a real Excel workbook — amounts, dates and percentages arrive typed, not as text to be re-formatted
Budget — committed by phase
Total Budget€4.2M
Committed€2.9M
Remaining€1.3M
68%committed
Earthworks€1.4M
Structures€980K
Track€520K
Illustrative interface — sample data
Purchase orders

Orders that route themselves to the right approver

Create a purchase order and it finds its own way through approval — based on the amount and which partner company raised it. No spreadsheet chasing signatures.

  • Every order ties back to a contract, quotation or lump-sum agreement — never a number picked out of thin air
  • Automatic routing by amount and by company
  • Full history: who approved what, when, and every later change kept as a new, linked, separately approved order
  • Submitted too fast? Recall it to draft, as long as no approver has ruled on it yet
Purchase orders
RefSupplierStatusUsed
PO-ALC-2026-0142Nordbau AGApproved
PO-ALC-2026-0139Alpine Civil WorksPending approval—
PO-ALC-2026-0135Ferrotrack SuppliesSent
PO-ALC-2026-0128Nordbau AGClosed
Illustrative interface — sample data
On site

A daily report the site crew will actually fill in

The site manager logs the day on a tablet — crews, machine hours, materials in, work done, incidents, photos and delivery notes. Each line ties straight back to the purchase order it belongs to, so a delivery is recorded once, on site, and never re-typed at the office.

  • Copy yesterday’s report in one tap, then change what changed
  • Machines and materials come from the purchase order — unit, price, quantity left — never typed by hand
  • Mistakes caught at entry, not at invoice time: a missing cost code, a quantity beyond the order, or a unit that contradicts the budgeted one blocks the report and says why
  • Quantities can be entered the way the site actually counts them — tonnes where the budget is set in cubic metres — and are converted on the spot
  • Every day shows what it cost and what it produced, side by side, so an unprofitable day is visible the evening it happens
DSR-ALC-2026-0318 — 12 Mar, Team B
LinePO refQtyAttachedStatus
Excavator 22 tPO-ALC-2026-01428 h—On order
Concrete C30/37PO-ALC-2026-012824 m³Delivery noteOn order
Crushed stone 0/32PO-ALC-2026-013560 t2 photosOver order
Formwork, 2 crews—140 m²—Cost code?
Illustrative interface — sample data
Invoices & payment

Invoices checked against deliveries automatically

An invoice is matched against the purchase order and what was actually delivered. Each line is then ruled by the validator named on the contract behind its order; a discrepancy stays pending instead of being quietly waved through.

  • One invoice can cover several purchase orders
Invoice matching
InvoiceSupplierPO refAmountStatus
INV-2291Nordbau AGPO-ALC-2026-0142€18,400.00Matched
INV-2288Alpine Civil WorksPO-ALC-2026-0139€9,750.00Good to pay
INV-2280Ferrotrack SuppliesPO-ALC-2026-0135€6,120.00Pending · qty gap
Illustrative interface — sample data
Subcontractor claims

Monthly claims from subcontractors, certified line by line

A subcontractor files its monthly Application For Payment against its contract — and its purchase order, when there is one. The validator named on the contract approves or rejects each line; the last approval certifies the claim.

  • Certifying the claim records the delivery on the order, in quantities — nothing to enter a second time
  • Only certified claims count as earned value in the budget
  • No e-mail leaves the platform without the sender confirming it first
AFP-FER-2026-0007 — March
LineClaimedApprovedStatus
Rail fastening€12,400.00€12,400.00Approved
Ballast top-up€8,150.00—Pending
Thermite welds€3,900.00—Rejected
Illustrative interface — sample data
Safety & people

Safety paperwork done on the phone, where the work is

Incident reports, toolbox talks and management safety walks are filled in on site, on the same platform as the cost. And the platform knows which certificate or machine inspection is about to run out, before someone turns up to work without it.

  • Three safety forms in the field: incident sheets, quarter-hour safety briefings, and supervision safety walks against a fixed checklist
  • Every person and every machine has a record: certificates, training, inspections, each with its own validity period
  • A monthly reminder lands with the site managers listing what expires in the next 90 days — nothing is discovered on the day it lapses
  • A QR code on the employee’s badge opens their record on the spot
Expiring in the next 90 days
HolderItemExpiresStatus
M. LaurWorking at height04 Jun62 days
Excavator 22 tAnnual inspection19 May16 days
J. PetersonFirst aid27 Jul85 days
Illustrative interface — sample data
Site record

What the site looked like, and how the crew was shown to do it

Photos taken on site are filed with the project, the date and the position they were taken from — so a dispute six months later is settled by a picture rather than a memory. And the training the crew was given is on the same platform, in their own language.

  • Photo albums per project, tagged and captioned, positioned automatically from the photo itself
  • One gallery gathers every site photo already attached elsewhere — daily reports, deliveries, safety forms — instead of leaving them scattered across records
  • A photo can be annotated without ever overwriting the original
  • Training videos dubbed and subtitled per language, played straight on a phone or tablet on site

Built for how consortiums actually work

01

One system, several companies

Each partner company sees only the projects and spending in its own part of the project — nothing merges, nothing leaks between firms. Screens, actions and perimeter are set once, by role, not per person.

02

Nobody approves their own work

The creator of an order is never one of its approvers, whoever signed an order cannot approve its invoice, and a subcontractor claim is never certified by the person who filed it.

03

One shared address book, one cost list

Partner companies and the official cost code list are managed centrally, once — and used everywhere, right down to the reference number printed on every order.

04

Stock counted whenever you need it

No fixed schedule required. Count what’s physically on site, and the system works out the difference and corrects the numbers on its own.

05

Four languages

English, French, Estonian and Finnish — every screen, same data.

06

A separate view for whoever is funding the work

The organisations financing the project see every cleared invoice in their own screen, with their own approval status — separate from the day-to-day approval that got the invoice paid.

07

Contracts and invoices read for you

Drop in a signed contract or a supplier invoice as a PDF and the key figures are pulled out for checking, rather than re-typed line by line off the page.

08

Signed contracts arrive on their own

Contracts signed electronically land in an inbox with their figures and projects already filled in — one click files them into the contract.

09

Subcontractors log in too

A subcontractor gets its own account and sees only the orders and contracts that name its company — enough to file its claims, nothing more.

10

Salaries and travel in the budget

Approved monthly hours come from the timesheet; hotel, travel and car receipts are read by OCR and converted at the ECB rate of the expense date. Both land in the budget as actual cost.

11

Every change leaves a trace

Every save, approval and login is logged with who did it and when — so “who changed this?” has an answer.

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Swiss-built

Designed and engineered in Switzerland

With the precision that large infrastructure budgets demand.

Independent

Owned by no contractor on your project

A neutral system every partner company can trust equally.

Purpose-built

Built for construction, not adapted to it

Every screen assumes budgets, purchase orders and site deliveries from day one.