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Increasing project risk and complexity together with the growth of long-term contracts and opportunities in post construction services creates both challenges and opportunities for the engineering and construction industry. To meet all of these business challenges more companies are looking to automate their processes and record keeping through the use of technology.

The activities undertaken by the Construction industry are often involved processes and therefore lend themselves well to the electronic domain. The first real electronic systems for construction were estimating and accounting systems. Then the rest followed for example AutoCad, Excel and database programs.

 

While the individual programs are good as components, they provide no effective way of consolidating all the company‘s operational and documentation needs. In general construction activities fall in to distinct operational areas:

  • Estimating, engineering, design, change process
  • Purchasing, delivery
  • Labor
  • Project Management
  • Field Process, build
  • Equipment maintenance
  • Fabrication
  • Contracts
  • Financial
  • Regulatory requirements i.e. OSHA, FLSA, international Regulatory requirements associated with the type of construction going on i.e. NRC or FDA good manufacturing practices.
  • Organizational operational procedures.

The construction industry can benefit from new systems and processes in many ways including:

  • An enterprise system facilitates access to information across departments to write competitive, profitable proposals, enable project collaboration, choose the best subcontractors and suppliers, control project execution, improve consistency in forecasts, and streamline payments and collections. The implementation of an ERP platform can handle all activities from initial project identification through contract closeout.

  • Record keeping for construction requires not only keeping track of internally generated records but also those required by contracting agencies or companies. In some instances this is still not sufficient. Regulatory and best practice requirements may add additional levels of record keeping. The implementation of an Electronic Document and Records Management System can help reduce project cost, increase efficiency and satisfy regulatory requirements.

Consortio‘s Professional Service team has the experience in Construction to create solutions to help your organizations meet existing and emerging challenges.
 
 
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