Digital transformation for Construction should start with an ERP
Construction Technology (ConTech) is turning into a ‘supermarket’ of standalone apps, each addresses one-two Construction challenges: Labor productivity, field (site) collaboration, Reporting, Estimation, Bidding, BIM, Document Management, Collaboration, and the list … goes on and on!
The construction industry is very reluctant to change. Companies are mostly running Excels -on steroids- and are using old-fashioned processes for estimation, control and operations. The reason is that the Construction industry is a very unique domain of doing business. Much different from Finance, Insurance, Manufacturing where operations mainly take place within a controlled environment.
This Article argues that purpose-specific applications may only do one-two tricks but would never trully technologically advance how Construction Companies operate. Construction companies need to prioritize in Construction ERP first, and integrate along any third-party application on-demand.
Construction is chaotic
Gigantic machines and people coexist in confined spaces. Materials are moving up and down from large cranes. Tracks are unloading aggregates with dust and noise … where labor safety and hygiene are usually in jeopardy. You get the picture! This is not a manufacturing environment so much for banks or insurance offices.
Construction is an Art!
In offices, communications and information entropy is huge. Schedules change all the time along with drawing, design versions, plans and specs. Interdepartmental collaboration is almost impossible. Project stakeholders have limited visibility to construction activities and progress.
It may seem awkward but Construction has its own internal disruptive ways to evolve. The amazing engineering marvers undoubtedly prove that regardless of the lack of efficiency and productivity, Construction is destined to evolve whilst maintain consistency with traditional processes, hardcore engineering and innovative construction techniques.
Why you should start from an ERP
Similarly to the real construction works where the foundations and the bearing capacity of the ground are an integral part of building the superstructure, the bedrock for the digital transformation should start with a system than orchestrates processes, data and users providing the means to monitor, control and adjust operations onsite and office, dynamically.
Simple speaking, a Construction Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software is a Vertical (industry-specific) solution that attains a construction business-logic, meaning that can be easily morphed to each Client’s processes to achieve tangible benefits by increasing the bid-wins scores, control the costs, assure compliance and maintain profit margins.
Similarly to our Construction, ERP: ProjectVIEW ERP, the system should be a comprehensive construction operating system (Constrcuction_OS) that will streamline construction operations and will assess and attenuate the risk during pre-Construction ad secure and increase the profit during Construction.
History of ProjectVIEW ERP
More than 20 years ago, we envisioned software that will align, unify, manage, standardize and control all construction activities and resources expended onsite along with engineering and administrative processes in the office. A comprehensive Commercial, Operational and Financial suite of modules for Vertical and Horizontal Construction that will bring real-time awareness, increase your projects’ pipeline and control the Fixed-Price/LS contracting overruns, extending to the complexity and high-risk of megaprojects such as: transportation works, large MEP, Build–Operate–Transfer (BOT) and Public-Private Partnership (PPP — P3s) infrastructure projects.
ProjectVIEW ERP is the industry’s only enterprise-ready Cost Control and Projects Performance Management Platform. A complete business suite for Agile Construction. A Construction_OS that assists Contractors in estimating, bidding, executing and operating efficiently, Demarcating Uncertainty, Sizing the Risk and Securing the Profit.
ProjectVIEW ERP is a unified construction software platform that can be fully customized to your needs. The only solution that seamlessly integrates construction-specific Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) with Oracle Primavera and any BIM system, providing real-time Actual vs Budgeted Cost.
