Industry
The profitability of construction activity is dependent on, material, machinery, time and labor. Only the optimum utilization and management of these shall give the profitability. Now added to this, if there are activities happening at different places, it becomes a very cumbersome task to manage the activity.

Thus an enterprise resource planning becomes a necessity and need for better management of construction activity.

About ERP
User friendly Menu driven package with extensive in built checks to stream line the Construction Industry activities for Multi project, Multi Site Construction companies. It is totally a component based 3-Tier architecture. It has extensive security features for restricted access on user permission definitions and Scalable architecture for interfacing and maintenance. 

ERP can be integrated with designing/modeling software. While ERP concentrates on workflow, manpower and material management of the project it can be integrated with products like MS-Projects, Primavera. The product can also be web-enabled depending on the requirement of the client. 

The applicability of ERP to any type of construction either be it, flats and buildings, roads, canals, dams or any construction-based activity, is its strength.

Development Model
A focus group was formed comprising of procedure oriented specialist from construction industry, industry advisors, and system analyst and software engineers to design the system for the construction management. A construction site has been chosen to test and implement the modules to make it more near to reality and applicability.

The product has undergone a solid three-year test period to make it robust.

Features 

• Bidding
• Project Planning
• Estimation / Costing
• Material Procurement
• Material Management
• Work Capture / Progress
• Time line & Pert
• Time over run and Cost over run
• Assessment of Actual vs Estimate
• Machinery utilization / Allocation
• Sale Management
• Financial Management
• Project-wise consolidation
• Security Management
• Variance Reports for material, machinery and manpower
• Costing Statements
• Revised Action Plan for the work pending
• Project wise Stock Status
• Monitoring work progress and performance periodically 
• Comparison with similar Projects
• Project efficiency reports
• Material Clean up
• Data analysis for future projects
• Estimation of material required and cost
• Estimation of machinery required and cost
• Estimation of manpower required and cost
• Action plan for the project

Some of the advantages
Easy operation and User friendly
Integration with Master Database at HO with data from sites
It streamlines and ensures
  -- Reliability
  -- Replicability
  -- Efficiency ... across all sites
Uniformly Structured and Systematic processes across all sites
Monitoring Contractors / Sub contractors wrt Work Progress / Material / Machinery
Project Monitoring wrt Resources allocated / Used
Company / Project Snapshots
Breaking down of any activity to its smallest part
Idle resources identified
Avoiding out of stock situation
Inventory control
Vendor management
Invoice-wise payments monitoring
Tracking of Bank Guarantees

Some of the benefits
15% to 20% savings in Materials
Efficiency of machinery deployed & measured
Reallocation of resources, machinery and material enabled
Manpower efficiency measured
Variance in cost from budget analysis
Data repositories for historical data

Platforms & Technology

Hardware : Operating System : RDBMS : Front-end :

Intel–Pentium, IBM-PC Windows Platform (95/98/NT/2000) SQL Server 7.0/2000 Visual Basic 6.0

Current Action
Web enabling the product taking advantage of the internet availability.

Support
TIL provides quality structured training and full support for all installations. Our solid in-house expertise in hardware and software platforms gives TIL clients the flexibility, reliability and accountability they need.

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