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

Read some of our customer references.