To succeed in today's complex business environment, plant contracting and construction companies must overcome low profit margins, increasingly complex and capital-intensive projects, and highly decentralized project environments. That's why leading companies are recognizing the business value of implementing effective financial controls and management.

The SAP for Engineering, Construction & Operations (SAP for EC&O) set of solutions gives you the visibility and control you need to manage finances across your entire project portfolio with greater accuracy, reliability, and accountability. With SAP for EC&O, you can significantly reduce the risk inherent in managing a large portfolio of projects in a challenging business environment.

The SAP for EC&O set of solutions enables you to:

• Increase accuracy – Control the risk of inaccurate construction progress reporting and planning by periodically comparing project progress and the remaining plan against the overall contract amount, and close the gap between project financials and project logistics and execution.
• Improve reliability – Reduce the risk of inadequate financial reserves by ensuring that projects in progress are evaluated correctly – using more accurate data on construction progress and the remaining plan, and an improved valuation method.
• Enhance accountability – Lessen the financial risk of managing a large portfolio of projects involving multiple organizational units, subsidiaries, and business partners by breaking down key financial figures to see exactly how each business unit contributes to any given project.

Built on the SAP NetWeaver platform, SAP for EC&O provides an open, scalable architecture, so that your solutions can be easily expanded and integrated with other solutions – from SAP or other vendors – to help you cope smoothly in a complex business environment.

SAP has become the solution provider of choice to many of the nation's leading plant contracting and construction companies, including:

• Aquatech – A $65M company that offers full-scope water treatment solutions for design and engineering, project management, manufacturing, turnkey installation, and commissioning/field troubleshooting.
• Bechtel – The U.S. number one engineering, construction, and project management firm that has participated in such notable projects as the construction of the Hoover Dam and the cleanup of the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
• Fluor – Ranked among the leading international design firms and international contractors for designing and building manufacturing and pharmaceutical facilities, refineries, power plants, and telecommunications and transportation infrastructure.
• KBR – The engineering and construction arm of oil field services giant Halliburton – offering construction management, project management, and facilities operations and maintenance services to a broad range of markets.
• TIC – A highly diversified industrial contractor involved in major industrial markets that typically performs all major disciplines including civil, structural steel erection, heavy mechanical equipment installation, process piping, electrical, instrumentation, and controls.