INDUSTRY OVERVIEW
A BLUEPRINT FOR EFFICIENCY AND GROWTH IN CONSTRUCTION
In a volatile market, your operations must be responsive to changes in project scope, costs, and schedules. Whether it's a no-show subcontractor, an unforeseen field condition, or a patch of bad weather, obstacles appear – but your clients don't adjust their expectations. That's why continued growth is the ultimate challenge.
SAP solutions deliver fast access to information, flexibility, and adaptability to solve your unique business problems – keys to continued growth in a volatile market. In fact, more than 1,000 EC&O companies have automated critical business processes with SAP solutions. And did you know that 65% of SAP customers are midsize companies?
Learn about our industry focus:
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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
 Learn more about SAP Business All-in-One.
Read some of our customer references.
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| Homebuilding |
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The home is the highest-priced indispensable product that buyers ever see – and that presents a unique set of challenges. Whether your business is high-rise buildings, single-family units, or multi-family units, you must bring innovative architecture, floor-plan design, and features to every project, integrating your business processes for design, contract management, outsourcing, project management – even in-house mortgage lending.
To continue to grow your business in a competitive industry made more complex with volatile commodity pricing, subcontractors and labor with high turn-over rates, regulatory/permit requirements, and varying mortgage rates, you need to:
- Control budget and manage contracts with a hired general contractor (builder-as-manager business model)
- Coordinate multiple specialty contractors (builder-as-general-contractor business model)
- Keep each project on track and within budget
- Perform change management and mitigate project impacts
- Mitigate operational and financial risk by integrating project controls with corporate financials
SAP can help you:
- Improve the sales process with increased accuracy and automation
- Create new revenue streams by diversifying the business
- Collaboratively bid and award vendors and specialty trades
- Set up specifications and floor-plan data for sales and purchasing
- Gain more visibility into the business' spending on items of high demand
- Streamline and integrate sales, procurement, and project management processes with financial processes
- View project costs and schedules from any level to determine overall, real-time business and financial impacts
- Track specs, drawings, contracts, permits, and other vital documents
- Measure and evaluate the performance of subcontractors and suppliers
Learn more about SAP Business All-in-One.
Read some of our customer references.
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| Shipbuilding |
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If you're in the business of shipbuilding, you know about a competitive, capital- and labor-intensive industry. You know the effect of volatile commodity prices and the growing regulatory squeeze. And you know that – because of multiple concurrent processes – ship construction presents an extremely complex task to engineers.
You also know you'll succeed in delivering the project as-specified – with a healthy margin – by streamlining design, procurement, and fabrication/assembly, from preorder to sea trials and final hand-over. So you need to:
- Reconcile upstream design tasks with downstream fabrication/assembly tasks
- Keep the project on track and within budget
- Manage change and mitigate project impacts – from design to production
- Manage material, labor, work centers, and equipment resources
- Collaborate with the designer and OEMs for engineered material and major equipment
- Source projects with reliable vendors for material and services
- Mitigate operational and financial risk by integrating project controls with corporate financials
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
- Allocate workforce resources properly in a concurrent-task environment
- Enable multiple subproject managers to report on phase completions, budgets, and changes
- Control exposure to client changes, design changes, and performance issues
- Collaborate with OEMs, specialty subcontractors, and suppliers
- Measure and evaluate the performance of subcontractors and suppliers
- Recruit, hire, train, and retain skilled professional staff
Learn more about SAP Business All-in-One.
Read some of our customer references.
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