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INFLUENCE OF CONSTRUCTION BASED SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS, Vertical Cities 2017, Dubai
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ROAD MAP Case Study Influence Construction ERP Current Market Sentiment IT Budget IT Staff Benefits to Stakeholder Cons. ERP Group of companies Global Presence Company Introduction
GLOBAL PRESENCE CANADA QATAR LEBANON IRAQ JORDAN SAUDI ARABIA USA OMAN INDIA UAE 8 Offices Worldwide
PROFILE • Group Formed in since 1991 • Bricks Business Lines • Software development Capabilities & Development Center • Major Clients • Chairman • H.E Mohammad Khalfan Al Qamzi • Former CEO of Etisalat • Recognized as one of the top 100 Arab executives
BUSINESS ACTIVITIES IT CONSULTANCY SERVICES SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
IT BUDGET CORPORATE REVENUE GENERAL & ADMIN. EXPS. More than 50% of the Construction Companies Survey do not bill IT Expenditures to Projects Less than 0.5% More than 1% IT BUDGET IT BUDGET
IT STAFF DEDICATED IT STAFF 2014 2016 Yes 58.9% No 41.1% No 42.6% Yes 57.4% • No Because • We Outsource IT • We’re too Small to have dedicated IT • It’s too costly to have dedicated IT • We have no need for dedicated IT • Does One Person Department Count? While the availability, functionality, and affordability of IT is consistently improving, attitudes toward IT spending are not.
CONSTRUCTION ERP Interfaces to CAD data and models to automate information exchange • Engineer-to-order or project-based manufacturing capability • Ability to manage a service contract, with flexible pricing and invoicing rules OFFSITE MANUFACTURING • Mobile job management • Automated scheduling capability, INTEROPRABILITY - 3D DESIGN & PMT FACILITIES & SERVICE MANAGEMENT MOBILE WORKFORCE • Set a budget for the overall project • Facilitate real-time project reporting • Analysis for review meetings • Revise the project forecast • Schedule maintenance • and repairs, manage the time of service technicians, and procure • spares and materials for maintenance, repair and overhaul ENTERPRISE ASSET MANAGEMENT (EAM) PROJECT COST CONTROL SUB-CONTRACT MANAGEMENT & PURCHASING CONTRACT MANAGEMENT • Puts forth scopes of work for sub- contractors to bid • on, assesses their bids, and sets up the foundation for cost control • Valuations obtain during quantity surveying are converted into payment certificates CRM & ESTIMATION SALES CONTRACT MANAGEMENT • Manage approval workflows, and provide revision control and manage contract changes. • Managing opportunities • Breaking down and analyzing scopes of work
BENEFITS TO STAKE HOLDERS • Hours saved • Increased Efficiency due to Increased Co-ordination • Dashboards to know business situation at a glance • Informed Decision Making with real time data • High quality results and increasing their overall business profitability • Know exactly when to inject and when to draw finance from the business
CASE STUDY Meet Mr. Saleh, CEO of ABC company, he had several business problems such as, I cannot control my inventory My projects never complete on budget I think my costing is wrong How can I allocate company overheads on projects My sites are poorly managed My cash flow is not planned properly
CASE STUDY As Mr. Saleh employed Bricks to overcome these issues Bricks came across their on set of problems during implementation such as
CASE STUDY As a first step towards implementation Bricks Team conducted a gap analysis study.. • Bricks analyzed that for ABC its was necessary to provide a HYBRID system (Cloud + LAN) • Output of Primavera was used as initial project entry to manage project schedule and cost • Solution device was on single technology to integrated all departments • Site was provided with mobile solutions and devices to collect and feed data into a system • For different stores barcoding system was implemented to know exact status of inventory on each site • Cost coding system was established to know exact cost any activity • PM tools were synchronized with the system STARTING STAGE DESIRED STAGE
ERP PROCESS FLOW CORPORATE BUDGETING
Major Facility Sub Facility Work Item Work Package Cost Heads (Cost Code) Resource
PROJECT MONITORING • Cost Variance • Schedule Variance • Cost Performance Index • Schedule Performance Index • Estimate to Complete • Percentage of Work Scheduled • Percentage of Budget Spent • Percentage of Work Accomplished • Estimate at Completion • Variance at Completion