Influence of Construction Based Software Solutions.

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INFLUENCE OF CONSTRUCTION BASED SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
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ROAD MAP
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COMPANY INTRODUCTION
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GLOBAL PRESENCE
8 Offices Worldwide
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PROFILE

• Group Formed in since 1991
• Bricks Business Lines
• Software development Capabilities Development
  Center
• Major Clients

• Chairman
• H.E Mohammad Khalfan Al Qamzi
• Former CEO of Etisalat
• Recognized as one of the top 100 Arab executives

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BUSINESS ACTIVITIES
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RIG GROUP
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CURRENT CONSTRUCTION MARKET SENTIMENT
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IT BUDGET
CORPORATE REVENUE
GENERAL ADMIN. EXPS.
More than 50 of the Construction Companies
Survey do not bill IT Expenditures to Projects
Less than 0.5
More than 1
IT BUDGET
IT BUDGET
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IT STAFF
DEDICATED IT STAFF
2014
2016
Yes 57.4
No 42.6
Yes 58.9
No 41.1

• No Because
• We Outsource IT
• Were too Small to have dedicated IT

• Its too costly to have dedicated IT
• We have no need for dedicated IT

• Does One Person Department Count?

While the availability, functionality, and
affordability of IT is consistently improving,
attitudes toward IT spending are not.
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INFLUENCE OF IT (CONSTRUCTION ERP)
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CONSTRUCTION ERP
Interfaces to CAD data and models to automate
information exchange

• Engineer-to-order or project-based manufacturing
  capability

• Ability to manage a service contract, with
  flexible pricing and invoicing rules

INTEROPRABILITY - 3D DESIGN PMT
OFFSITE MANUFACTURING

• Mobile job management
• Automated scheduling capability,

FACILITIES SERVICE MANAGEMENT
MOBILE WORKFORCE

• Set a budget for the overall project
• Facilitate real-time project reporting
• Analysis for review meetings
• Revise the project forecast

• Schedule maintenance
• and repairs, manage the time of service
  technicians, and procure
• spares and materials for maintenance, repair and
  overhaul

ENTERPRISE ASSET MANAGEMENT (EAM)
PROJECT COST CONTROL
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
SUB-CONTRACT MANAGEMENT PURCHASING

• Puts forth scopes of work for sub- contractors to
  bid
• on, assesses their bids, and sets up the
  foundation for cost control

• Valuations obtain during quantity surveying are
  converted into payment certificates

SALES CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
CRM ESTIMATION

• Manage approval workflows, and provide revision
  control and manage contract changes.

• Managing opportunities
• Breaking down and analyzing scopes of work

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BENEFITS TO STAKE HOLDERS

• Hours saved
• Increased Efficiency due to Increased
  Co-ordination
• Dashboards to know business situation at a glance
• Informed Decision Making with real time data
• High quality results and increasing their overall
  business profitability
• Know exactly when to inject and when to draw
  finance from the business

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CASE STUDY
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CASE STUDY
Meet Mr. Saleh, CEO of ABC company, he had
several business problems such as,
I cannot control my inventory
My projects never complete on budget
I think my costing is wrong
How can I allocate company overheads on projects
My sites are poorly managed
My cash flow is not planned properly
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CASE STUDY
As Mr. Saleh employed Bricks to overcome these
issues Bricks came across their on set of
problems during implementation such as
Problem Details
Organizational Problems Organizational Problems
Project Aims Lack of Clearly defined aims of the implementation
Decision Making Problems with decision making, indecisiveness of company representative
Implementation Management Lack of implementation tasks coordination
Training Insufficient training phase of a project
Social Problems Social Problems
Employee Knowledge Lack of consciousness about company operation
Implementation Team Lack of Implementation team members obligation
Motivation Lack of employees motivation to perform implementation task and learn innovative skills
Resistance to new system Resistance of middle management, IT staff and system users
Resistance to change People highly accustomed to existing solutions and unwilling to change
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CASE STUDY
As a first step towards implementation Bricks
Team conducted a gap analysis study..

• Bricks analyzed that for ABC its was necessary to
  provide a HYBRID system (Cloud LAN)
• Output of Primavera was used as initial project
  entry to manage project schedule and cost
• Solution device was on single technology to
  integrated all departments
• Site was provided with mobile solutions and
  devices to collect and feed data into a system
• For different stores barcoding system was
  implemented to know exact status of inventory on
  each site
• Cost coding system was established to know exact
  cost any activity
• PM tools were synchronized with the system

STARTING STAGE
DESIRED STAGE
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ERP PROCESS FLOW
CORPORATE BUDGETING
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Major Facility
Sub Facility
Work Item
Work Package
Cost Heads (Cost Code)
Resource
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PROJECT MONITORING

• Cost Variance
• Schedule Variance
• Cost Performance Index
• Schedule Performance Index
• Estimate to Complete
• Percentage of Work Scheduled
• Percentage of Budget Spent
• Percentage of Work Accomplished
• Estimate at Completion
• Variance at Completion

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