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Construction ERP or a general-purpose ERP?
A general-purpose ERP is organised around departments, warehouses and finished products. A construction company is organised around projects and sites, where material is consumed into work, not sold. A construction ERP has that structure built in; a general ERP has to be customised to imitate it.
Side by side
| A general-purpose ERP | ERP Infra | |
|---|---|---|
| How the business is modelled | Company, departments, warehouses, products. | Company, projects, sites, a store at each site. |
| What happens to stock | Stock is sold or made into finished goods. | Stock is issued to work, and use is checked against the work done. |
| Labour | Employee payroll. | Contract labour attendance by contractor and trade; contractor bills computed from it. |
| Machines | Fixed assets with depreciation. | Daily hours, diesel, idle and breakdown time, operator cost and hire bills per site. |
| Progress | Not a concept; added through customisation. | A daily progress report built from site entries, feeding the schedule. |
| Client billing | Invoices for goods delivered. | Bills per site with claimed, certified, received, outstanding and retention. |
When the alternative is enough
If construction is a small part of a larger manufacturing or trading business, and your priority is one finance system across the group, a general ERP with a construction add-on may suit you better. ERP Infra does not replace accounting.
Questions people ask
- Can a general ERP be customised for construction?
- Yes, but site stores, daily progress reports, contractor bills, machine logs and retention all have to be designed and built, which is where most of the cost and delay in such projects comes from.
- Does ERP Infra replace our finance system?
- No. It runs the projects and leaves accounting, statutory returns and permanent-staff payroll to the software you already use.
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