The Infrastructure ERP Guide Every Project Director Should Read
The Infrastructure ERP Guide Every Project Director Should Read Infrastructure projects are among the most complex undertakings in the modern economy. Highways, bridges, power plants, railways, water treatment facilities are multi-year, multi-stakeholder endeavours that involve thousands of moving parts, enormous capital commitments, and zero tolerance for systemic failure. Yet a staggering number of them run over budget, over time, or both. McKinsey research has found that large infrastructure projects routinely exceed their original cost estimates by 80% and their schedules by 20 months. The reasons are familiar: fragmented data, siloed teams, manual reporting, poor resource visibility, and reactive rather than proactive decision-making. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, when properly selected and implemented, directly address these failure modes. But not all ERP systems are built for the demands of infrastructure work. Even the best platform will underperform if a...