ERP & Business Platforms · Construction
Live cost controls cut budget overruns by 22% for a construction contractor
Cost overruns surfaced only at project close-out. We delivered live budget-versus-actual controls across 18 projects with site-level capture, cutting overruns by 22%.
- Client
- Confidential construction contractor
- Region
- India & UAE
- Timeline
- 5 months to go-live
- Team
- 6 specialists
22%
Lower budget overruns
18
Projects on live cost controls
Weekly → daily
Site cost reporting cadence
100%
Commitments visible in forecasts
Context
The situation we found
Civil contractor running 18 concurrent projects
Engagement model: ERP implementation + custom modules
Budgets were prepared in spreadsheets, purchase commitments were tracked separately and site consumption was reported weekly on paper. Project managers learned about overruns too late to act on them.
Challenge
What was blocking the business
The constraints that had to be resolved before any technology decision mattered.
Approach
How we solved it
The decisions that produced the outcome, not a feature list.
Cost breakdown structure as the backbone
A single CBS ties budgets, purchase commitments, subcontract packages and actuals to the same cost codes.
Site capture on mobile
Material receipt, consumption and progress captured at site on mobile, including offline entry with later sync.
Commitment-aware forecasting
Cost-to-complete forecasts include open purchase orders and subcontract commitments, not just booked invoices.
Subcontractor certification workflow
Work certification, retention and payment milestones tracked as workflow with approval trails.
Delivery roadmap
How the programme ran
- 01
Cost model discovery · 4 weeks
CBS design, project templates and reporting requirements.
- 02
Core implementation · 8 weeks
Budgeting, procurement, subcontracts and cost posting.
- 03
Site capture app · 4 weeks
Mobile capture with offline support and progress reporting.
- 04
Rollout · 4 weeks
Project-by-project onboarding, training and management dashboards.
Results
What changed after go-live
Measured in the client's own systems against the baseline captured in discovery.
Stack & integrations
What it was built on
Technology stack
Integrations
Capabilities used
Services and platforms behind this work
FAQ
Questions about this engagement
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