ERP for civil contractors running several sites
A civil contractor earns on the difference between what the work should cost and what it did cost. That difference is decided on site, a few bags, litres and hours at a time.
What gets in the way
Margin is known only at the end
Cost per site is assembled from bills that arrive weeks after the work. By then nothing can be changed.
Material is the largest cost and the least watched
Cement and steel are issued in bags and tonnes while the work is measured in cubic metres. Few sites compare the two.
Sub-contractor bills are settled by argument
Attendance and measurements are on paper, so every month starts with two versions of the count.
Where ERP Infra helps most
Budget, committed and actual, per site, every day.
Every cost lands on its site the same day. Budget, committed, actual and balance on one screen.
How it worksIssued against needed. The excess is flagged.
Average consumption per unit of work is the yardstick. Anything issued above it is tracked as leakage.
How it worksAttendance locked on submit. Bills computed from it.
Attendance on a phone, locked on submit. The bill is computed from it, with the contractor’s claim beside it.
How it worksFigures in the screens above are sample data.
The parts you will use most
Material reconciliation
What was bought, what was used, what is left, and whether the usage was justified.
Labour and contractors
Contracts, labour records, locked daily attendance and contractor bills.
Costing
Cost per project and per site, against budget.
Daily progress report
Work done, manpower, machinery, material, photos and videos, costed automatically.
What it does not do
ERP Infra does not prepare tenders or estimates, and it does not replace your accounting software.
Questions people ask
- What should a civil contractor look for in an ERP?
- A system organised by project and site, with stores at each site, daily attendance, machine logs, a daily progress report and cost per site. The test is whether it can tell you, the same evening, what a site cost today and whether material use matched the work done.
- Can ERP Infra handle several projects with several sites each?
- Yes. A project is a collection of sites. Records are captured at each site and reported at project level, and cost, stock and progress are tracked at both.
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Let’s put every site on one screen.
Tell us how many projects and sites you run. We will walk you through the system on a call and suggest where a pilot would pay back first.
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