The Construction industry is growing at a steady pace and the requirement for new infrastructure and energy should increase in the coming years. In present day the implementation of SAP for Construction Industry is becoming increasing challenging than ever before with tight margins, strong competition, and demand for faster delivery, has increased dangers and this has massive pressure on Construction Industry.
Background
Client is a construction major in commercial and residential sectors with S4HANA. Material master data handling is a challenge with large volume and duplications of materials master data in S4HANA. Client requirement is to have a material data governance layer on top of S4HANA.
Solution implementation
- Custom application layer is built on S4HANA for materials data creation
- Approval workflows for different divisional inputs
- Front end user interfaces developed in SAPUI5/Fiori with back-end ABAP workflows.
Benefits
As a result, we were able to address the challenges effectively and meet the company’s objective of business transformation. The client witnessed reduction in working capital and inventory due to better materials planning and optimized asset handling and utilization. Enhanced agility and competitiveness due to fast information analysis and optimal decision making.
