In today's homebuilding industry, homebuilders must overcome the pressures of fast growth and increasing competition, cost, and schedule demands, while adapting to changing economic conditions linked to variable mortgage rates, equity markets, employment rates, and politics. Successful homebuilders excel by building quality homes on time and on budget, executing efficiently, and sharing accurate, up-to-date information about projects and processes with construction contractors, customers, and internal departments.

The SAP for Engineering, Construction & Operations (SAP for EC&O) set of solutions, designed specifically for the homebuilding industry, enables you to standardize and integrate business processes – from marketing and sales to land development, construction management, payroll, and accounting – and extend those processes to suppliers and subcontractors. This comprehensive set of solutions supports your industry-specific processes for controlling costs, boosting sales and profits, increasing customer satisfaction, and staying ahead of the competition.

With the SAP for EC&O set of solutions, you can:

• Increase efficiencies throughout your organization – Improve the flow of data with end-to-end process integration.
• Make better strategic decisions and reduce operating costs – Effectively handle market research, product and land development, sales, building, and procurement, and share information with your internal organization and partner ecosystem.
• Grow your business – Leverage SAP for EC&O to support your growth through acquisitions, mergers, diversification of business, or joint ventures.

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 with business changes.

SAP has become the solution provider of choice to many of the nation's leading manufactured and production homebuilders, including:

• Centex Homes – One of the largest homebuilders in the U.S., building about 34,000 single-family, detached homes annually.
• John Laing Homes – Named Professional Builder magazine's "2004 Builder of the Year" for excellence in innovative designs, marketing, and customer service, and "Builder of the Decade" in 2000 by independent research firm Eliant.
• Jim Walter Homes – America's largest builder of single-family, build-on-your-lot homes, with more than 3,700 homes a year and 350,000 homes built, to date.
• Cavalier Homes – A leader in the production, sale, finance, and insurance of more than 6,000 manufactured homes per year.
• Wausau Homes – A privately owned builder that produces approximately 4,600 modular and panelized homes per year.