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Navigating the ERP Landscape for the Construction Industry

Narrow your ERP search, find a fit-for-purpose solution.

  • The ERP landscape is highly populated, making it challenging to weigh options and assess which solution will best position your company for growth and success.
  • Construction companies operate on a project-based business model. Each project is unique in its requirements making adaptability important in an ERP.
  • Every construction company operates in a different domain, making their needs unique, and ERPs are not a one-size-fits-all solution, making the selection of a new ERP difficult.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

  • Implementing an ERP in construction is not just about efficiency, its about turning operational data into strategic opportunities. Without a unified data infrastructure, companies cannot leverage their data to optimize operations and gain a competitive edge in an increasingly data-driven industry.
  • With the construction industry becoming more complex due to evolving customer demands, having a single data source can ease growing pains and unify business operations.
  • The construction industry needs dynamic solutions to keep up with the complexity of their projects. As the industry evolves, the technology stack must follow suit, as legacy solutions are becoming unable to support advanced workloads.

Impact and Result

  • Define key trends in the construction ERP market to demonstrate the importance of innovating operations through a comprehensive ERP solution.
  • Identify ERP solutions with project-based capabilities to ensure the solution fits with the current and future business model of construction companies.
  • Analyze and outline the most important features for construction companies, to thoroughly evaluate different ERP solutions.

Navigating the ERP Landscape for the Construction Industry 91ÖÆÆ¬³§ & Tools

1. From Blueprints to Bottom Line: Find the Right ERP for Your Construction Company Deck – Narrow your ERP search and find a fit-for-purpose solution

This storyboard will streamline the vendor evaluation process for construction companies. It will reduce decision-making time while ensuring the solution you select yields measurable benefits through emphasizing the integration of differentiating capabilities. enabling your company to identify the most appropriate solution.

2. Construction ERP Scoring and Evaluation Tool​ – A tool to create a weighted analysis comparing potential vendors to find the best fit for your company

Use this tool to analyze the vendors you are considering to help guide your conversations in the selection process. In this tool, you will use your understanding from the storyboard to assess the urgency for specific features of your shortlisted vendors to identify which ones can fulfill your needs, reducing decision-making time.

3. Construction ERP Capability Map Workbook – Document your capability map work in assessing your current information state, and areas for improvement

This workbook will provide the tools needed to create your company’s capability map, to get a view of the business at a high-level. This will then be used to assess your current information state to identify gaps that a construction ERP will fill and help you understand what the company’s intended gains are from implementing a new software.

Narrow your ERP search, find a fit-for-purpose solution.

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Guided Implementation 1: Identify Key Market Trends
  • Call 1: Scope objectives of new ERP and challenges being faced.
  • Call 2: Understand the market.
  • Call 3: Understand current readiness state.
  • Call 4: Identify business goals and align objectives.
  • Call 5: Identify target-state information assessment.

Guided Implementation 2: Define Business Requirements
  • Call 1: Identify relationship between current state and expected gains.
  • Call 2: Identify key features that mend the gaps.

Guided Implementation 3: Identify Assessment Criteria and Assess Solutions
  • Call 1: Determine evaluation criteria.
  • Call 2: Score and evaluate solutions.
  • Call 3: Identify next steps.

Author

Michael Adams

Contributors

  • Joel Hoffman, Product Manager, Acumatica
  • Lauren O’Hara, Product Marketing Manager, Acumatica
  • Steve Schmidt, Managing Partner, 91ÖÆÆ¬³§
  • Hank Leingang, Executive Counselor, 91ÖÆÆ¬³§
  • Robert Fayle, Advisory Practice Lead, 91ÖÆÆ¬³§
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