[CaptainCrunch]

That's a tough question Worth, I would personally need to know a little bit more about the specifics of what your trying to achieve.

From our perspective, there are two ends to the spectrum.

1) obviously is the project plan and resource management, usually most organizations that we deal with would assign their specific project managers to allocate the resources and ensure that the utilization rate is setup properly.

Bascailly your shifting your person that maintains project over to whatever system you purchase. Where it becomes more difficult is if you want accurate tracking then you have to be aware of the information update cycle in the system.

Some organizations that we deal with have a dedicated person who's role is simply to not only keep the project benchmarks and tasks and personal/materials utilization up to date, but they also have to do it from a global perspective across the organization.

The other issue that comes into play is ensuring that your I guess you call them line people are keeping their activities up to date. In our systems for example that's based around time card entry so that you can track budget against actual.

Now with a lot of the more advanced smarter systems a lot of that can be automated if your projects follow similar templates.

Usually with our clients they lose a bit of time on maintaining the system and managing the manufacturing process, but they gain quite a bit of time in terms of increased efficiencies that are seen on the floor for example.

The real benefit though of project management software is usually realized via cost control.