ERP for road and infrastructure contractors
On road, bridge and utility work the machines are the cost. Diesel, idle hours and hired plant decide the margin, and the client pays in stages with retention held back.
What gets in the way
Diesel is booked as an expense, not tracked as stock
Litres are issued by hand and nothing ties them to the hours each machine worked.
Hired plant is paid on the vendor’s count
Days and hours on the hire bill are rarely checked against the site’s own log.
Earned money sits with the client
Claimed, certified and received drift apart across packages, and retention that has fallen due is forgotten.
Where ERP Infra helps most
Litres per hour against each machine’s normal.
Readings carry over automatically. Diesel per hour is compared with normal, and any jump is flagged.
How it worksClaimed, certified, received and outstanding, per site.
Bills raised per site, with claimed, certified, received and outstanding side by side, and retention due for release.
How it worksBudget, 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 worksFigures in the screens above are sample data.
The parts you will use most
Plant and machinery
Machine hours, kilometres, diesel, operator cost and hire charges.
Client billing
Bills raised per site: what was certified, what was received, what is outstanding.
Costing
Cost per project and per site, against budget.
Project schedule
The plan set at project level, tracked against actual progress.
What it does not do
ERP Infra works from daily readings entered at site. It does not connect to GPS trackers or fuel sensors, and it does not do survey or quantity take-off.
Questions people ask
- How does ERP Infra track machine cost per site?
- Each machine has a daily log of working, idle and breakdown hours, with diesel issued to it from stock. Operator cost is split across sites by days deployed, and hire bills are checked against the log, so machine cost per site is complete.
- Can it track retention on government or public works contracts?
- It tracks retention held on each client bill and shows the amount due for release, per site. The terms themselves come from your contract.
Other kinds of company
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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