Why ERP That Runs on Mobile Is Necessary in Construction Projects
Construction is one of the few industries where billion-rupee decisions are routinely made on the basis of a WhatsApp forward, a supervisor's verbal update, or a register that was last updated the previous evening. That is not a criticism of the people involved. It is an indictment of the systems, or the lack of them, that the industry has normalised over decades. Visit any active construction site today, whether it is a residential township, a commercial complex, or an infrastructure project, and you will find the same pattern repeating itself. The site engineer completes his rounds, makes mental notes or scribbles in a pocket diary, returns to the site office by evening, and either types a message to the project manager or fills out a daily report that reflects his best recollection of what happened eight hours ago. That report travels up the chain through informal channels, gets aggregated manually somewhere in the middle, and eventually reaches a project manager or management ...