Engineering & Construction
Global engineering & construction contractor
ERP platforms consolidated in nine months
Three $1 billion entities had just been acquired, leaving seven ERP systems that had to become one inside nine months to satisfy SOX. Data center and back-office synergies were expected to come with it.
Enabling the vision
- Seven ERPs consolidated to one, in nine months, for under $10m
- 32,000 projects across the globe
- 1m WBS billing codes
- Over 400,000 vendors
- 52,000 employees on a single payroll
- Four data centers to one; seven payroll centers to one
- Three back offices merged into one, with document imaging
- 16,000 users across financials, manufacturing, and fabrication
Return
- Overhead down 33% within five months of go-live
- Customization minimized by moving to a standardized, best-practice configuration
- Data center, payroll, and back-office administration costs all reduced
- Core business processes standardized and integrated company-wide
- The business grew from $3bn to $7.2bn on the single platform