Construction and real estate

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Foster business growth and efficiency with intelligent business solutions

Advance your company’s goals with unified applications, trusted data, and built-in AI.

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Our construction and real estate solutions can help you:

  • Deliver lean, compliant projects on time and on budget with connected teams.

  • Connect field data to finance for integrated business insights.

  • Improve decisions and bridge experience gaps by capturing project insights.

  • Elevate real-estate portfolios with AI-enabled insights.

  • Enhance customer experience with streamlined service management.

Streamline the customer lifecycle

Improve customer experience and loyalty with integrated leasing, sales, billing, and service, powering workflows and real-time insights.

Elevate project delivery

Complete projects on time, within budget, and at high quality while adhering to safety, sustainability, and compliance standards.

Connect critical field data to finance

Accurately track project costs in real time and connect field progress to payments, invoicing, and billing.

Hone your real estate portfolio

Optimize asset performance with advanced analytics to divest underperforming properties, reinvest in resilient sectors, and maximize capital returns.

Maximize expertise and knowledge

Improve decision-making and efficiency across projects while bridging the experience gap by capturing, storing, and sharing project-related insights.

Champion smart, sustainable buildings

Enhance tenant comfort and extend asset life by integrating intelligent features that reduce operating costs and align with environmental sustainability goals.

Build and manage smarter with SAP construction and real estate solutions

Achieve cost-effective transformation and sustainable growth through AI-enabled field-to-finance connection.        

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Precision bidding with process automation

Optimize processes and data with integrated construction solutions to:

  • Streamline lead qualification with customer relationship management analytics.

  • Provide bid insights for process optimization using predictive modeling.

  • Enhance bid processes for construction via automated workflows.

  • Identify the right talent for every job with workforce planning tools.

  • Automate contract setup for construction operations with smart templates.

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Unified planning and AI-assisted sales automation

Drive sales efficiency and higher performance by streamlining leads and resource planning.

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Optimized work packages and bids

Achieve project success and operational efficiency by streamlining work package management and bid processes.

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Streamlined staffing and resource planning

Improve resource utilization with optimized matching and resource fulfillment for peak performance and operational efficiency.

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DataXstream OMS+ Cross-Channel Order Management Solution

Simplify sales channels and rental management by providing teams with end-to-end order management and POS platforms.

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Smart scheduling for on-time project delivery

Streamline construction projects through efficient cost, schedule, and resource planning with digital tools to:

  • Improve cost accuracy for construction via automated quantity planning.

  • Increase efficiency with integrated cost and work breakdown structure tools.

  • Boost project schedule accuracy through automated resource allocation.

  • Accelerate permit approvals for outcomes via automated workflow systems.

  • Enhance operational performance for delivery with integrated planning tools.

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Smart tasks to sync resources

Improve efficiency and on-time delivery by streamlining project execution and resource allocation.

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Core HR and payroll

Increase agility with unified core HR, time tracking, and construction payroll.

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Skill insights

Pinpoint critical project gaps and identify existing craftworker skills to fill them.

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Precision planning

Achieve accurate quantity and cost plans for construction by transforming estimates with predictive cost modeling.

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Planon Real Estate Management for SAP S/4HANA

Make faster decisions and lower compliance costs by integrating real estate data, finance, and sustainability processes.

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Prospecta Software MDO for Supply Chain Management

Improve data quality and governance for spares and assets on a unified data platform with preconfigured master data models.

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Efficient sourcing and full spend visibility

Protect your bottom line with unified buying and spend visibility:

  • Simplify subcontracting and drive efficiency with supplier portals.

  • Streamline contract awards for operations using automated workflows.

  • Drive payment efficiency for construction via digital invoicing.

  • Make smart purchasing decisions with AI-enabled recommendations.

  • Optimize delivery tracking for projects via integrated stock management.

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Compliant purchasing

Gain full spend visibility, enable compliance, and streamline operations by integrating buying and invoicing processes.

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Smart sourcing

Digitally transform buying and invoicing to automate the procure-to-pay process for better compliance and full project visibility.

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Smart network

Connect and collaborate with suppliers and partners across your ecosystem to improve resilience and deliver more.

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SOTHIS ENTERPRISE RESOURCE SothisConcrete

Analyze projects in real time and reduce procurement costs by calculating resource needs from architectural data.

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End-to-end project delivery

Deliver innovative construction solutions for engineering and operations to:

  • Optimize operational efficiency for maintenance via automated workflows.

  • Accelerate financial close for projects using integrated reporting tools.

  • Optimize handover efficiency for construction through digital checklists.

  • Boost customer satisfaction with portal-based service management.

  • Enable comprehensive lifecycle support through unified property platforms.

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Financial close automation

Improve compliance, efficiency, and transparency with intelligent planning and orchestration of financial close.

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Smart assets

Boost uptime and reduce costs by predicting equipment failures and optimizing maintenance.

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Smart handover

Streamline project delivery by connecting teams and resources through a centralized platform.

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SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine

Optimize reconciliation and financial closing with configurable templates, rule-based automation, and variance analysis.

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Precision execution with 360-degree visibility

Boost margins with integrated field and finance tools to:

  • Forecast accurately and simplify change orders with predictive analytics.

  • Enhance safety and precision in operations via integrated monitoring tools. 

  • Maximize project efficiency and control costs with unified dashboards. 

  • Simplify complex construction payroll via automated calculations. 

  • Enable smooth collaboration across teams with integrated platforms.

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Portfolio and project management

Achieve complete project lifecycle management from investment to closure using a single integrated solution.

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Project collaboration and staffing

Share project information with external and internal stakeholders, resolve issues, and staff projects with the right resources.

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Project financial plans and sustainability goals

Achieve greater speed and accuracy in project plans, budgets, and forecasts using integrated field data systems.

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Personalized digital workspace

Delight employees with the insights they need, tailored to how they work, through a personalized digital workspace platform.

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Safe site operations

Mitigate risks and reduce incidents with proactive environmental health and safety management and operational change oversight.

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Smartapp ONE

Drive real-time forecasting and look-ahead schedules with AI-enabled project controls, automation, and blockchain technology.

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BearingPoint ETM.next

Increase asset utilization and reduce CAPEX/OPEX via integrated fleet management with IoT tracking and procurement automation.

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Comprehensive asset and tenant service

Unify lease management and tenant services for total asset efficiency to:

  • Accelerate contract creation for projects via automated template systems.

  • Optimize billing operations for real estate through integrated workflows.

  • Enable comprehensive lifecycle support via unified property management.

  • Modernize service ticketing for operations through a central platform.

  • Optimize SLA management for projects with performance dashboards.

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Optimized field service management

Proactively resolve customer issues and elevate field servicewith comprehensive AI-enabled forms, portal, and marketplace.

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Seamless project delivery

Increase efficiency and keep operations running by connecting project planning and design across the supply chain.

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Streamlined ticket management

Resolve issues faster and automate recommendations by delivering superior property service with connected data and AI.

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Accely Raapyd Real Estate Customer Portal

Address service and facility requests faster and increase satisfaction with a unified view across the tenant experience.

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Frequently asked questions

ERP streamlines operations across project financials, HR, compliance, procurement, maintenance, and sales. ERP automates key business processes and provides real-time insights, allowing businesses to make faster decisions, improve efficiency, and deliver excellence in project delivery.

SAP and Smartapp ONE™ connect the field to the back office by linking jobsite activity, contracts, timesheets, and supplier data directly to project financials. This seamless integration eliminates manual reentry and delays, ensuring critical updates such as costs, progress, and change orders flow automatically into the system. The result is realtime visibility, fewer errors, and a single source of truth for teams managing budgets, compliance, and project and portfolio performance.

SAP brings the power of AI to construction and real estate by weaving intelligence into every step of the project and property lifecycle. From predicting costs and timelines to optimizing jobsite resources and safety, AI helps teams deliver projects faster and with greater confidence. In real estate, AI analyzes leasing, energy, and portfolio data to uncover new revenue opportunities while reducing waste and emissions. By unifying data across finance, operations, and assets, SAP gives companies the insights they need to work smarter, minimize risk, and build long-term value.

SAP Business Suite brings together applications, data, and AI to help construction and real estate companies reach new heights of enterprise management.  SAP applications are highly rated across all categories with embedded AI to achieve new levels of process automation. SAP Business Data Cloud provides easy access to data that maintains its business context enabling next-level analytics. This trusted, accessible data enables real estate and construction companies to easily build differentiating custom AI applications and AI agents with SAP’s connected low code and no code capabilities.

SAP is well aligned with the concept, which minimizes technical and contractual complexity. SAP offers a modular set of AI-enhanced systems of record across business areas, working seamlessly with our market-leading SAP Cloud ERP and SAP Business Data Cloud. We offer these systems through SAP and third-party industry-specific solutions. SAP Business Technology Platform provides customers with the same toolset that SAP uses, allowing you to build innovative extensions, and provides robust tools to integrate third-party tools if needed.

SAP provides real estate companies with advanced tools and solutions to effectively manage the customer lifecycle. Through streamlined processes and automation, SAP enables efficient handling of the lead-to-lease and lead-to-sales processes from managing lease and sales contracts, onboarding tenants, and managing tenant service and maintenance requests. Its integrated platforms enable real-time data access to enhance decision-making. As a result, real estate companies can optimize operations, reduce costs, and improve tenant and customer satisfaction.

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