No matter what construction field you're in – heavy construction, commercial, project management, or capital facilities creation – your business operations must be responsive to changes in project scope, costs, risks, and tight schedules throughout the project life cycle. All while you manage your business for healthy profit margins.

With these underlying challenges come the need to:

• Keep projects on track and within budget
• Perform change management and mitigate project impact
• Manage material, labor, and equipment resources
• Attract and retain skilled workers
• Coordinate specialty trades and contractors
• Manage design documents, including all versions and changes
• Source projects with reliable vendors for material and services
• Mitigate operational and financial risk by integrating project controls with corporate financials
• Provide project visibility across the board, from C-level to field

SAP can help you:

• View project costs and schedules from any level to determine overall, real-time business and financial impacts
• Determine project productivity on physical execution
• Track drawings, contracts, permits, and other vital documents
• Compare projects and leverage the best practices of the most successful ones
• Allocate workforce resources properly, giving priority to projects in critical phases
• Enable multiple project managers to report on various phase completions, budgets, costs, and changes
• Control exposure to design changes, performance issues, and unexpected events
• Collaborate with subcontractors and suppliers on documents and schedules
• Recruit, hire, train, and retain skilled professional staff
• Measure and evaluate the performance of subcontractors and suppliers

Read some of our customer references.