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With the current Technologies and trends , adoption of ERP in the Construction Industry is seen as a viable solution to enhance the visibility and status of various projects in ever increasing competitive world.

However, When you look closely, ERP systems were introduced mainly for manufacturing industries which are standard repetitive processes.

Yes, ERP can be adopted in areas like HR, Procurement, Finance as the processes involved are repetitive and standard.

When you look at Project Management or Projects in general this is not applicable, as each project how identical they might be are run by People. 

Each person is unique be it a manager, engineer, supervisor or a mason. So, No matter how identical the projects are they differ from one another. Maybe because of the geographical location, terrain, diverse backgrounds of manpower, experience, cash flow the list is endless.

It is understood that we tend to to have individual ways of execution, thought processes and experiences . This is one of the reasons why Project Management or Project Controls will not be able to gel with ERP systems 100% as it is mainly run by People unlike other industries or sectors.

I personally think certain aspects of the Projects like HR, Procurement , Finance can adopt ERP to support the PM processes but not as a whole whether it is SAP, Oracle or Sage.

I would really appreciate fellow members to share their views as most people have already faced this or will face it in near future.

Thank you.

With the current Technologies and trends , adoption of ERP in the Construction Industry is seen as a viable solution to enhance the visibility and status of various projects in ever increasing competitive world.

However, When you look closely, ERP systems were introduced mainly for manufacturing industries which are standard repetitive processes.

Yes, ERP can be adopted in areas like HR, Procurement, Finance as the processes involved are repetitive and standard.

When you look at Project Management or Projects in general this is not applicable, as each project how identical they might be are run by People. 

Each person is unique be it a manager, engineer, supervisor or a mason. So, No matter how identical the projects are they differ from one another. Maybe because of the geographical location, terrain, diverse backgrounds of manpower, experience, cash flow the list is endless.

It is understood that we tend to to have individual ways of execution, thought processes and experiences . This is one of the reasons why Project Management or Project Controls will not be able to gel with ERP systems 100% as it is mainly run by People unlike other industries or sectors.

I personally think certain aspects of the Projects like HR, Procurement , Finance can adopt ERP to support the PM processes but not as a whole whether it is SAP, Oracle or Sage.

I would really appreciate fellow members to share their views as most people have already faced this or will face it in near future.

Thank you.

With the current Technologies and trends , adoption of ERP in the Construction Industry is seen as a viable solution to enhance the visibility and status of various projects in ever increasing competitive world.

However, When you look closely, ERP systems were introduced mainly for manufacturing industries which are standard repetitive processes.

Yes, ERP can be adopted in areas like HR, Procurement, Finance as the processes involved are repetitive and standard.

When you look at Project Management or Projects in general this is not applicable, as each project how identical they might be are run by People. 

Each person is unique be it a manager, engineer, supervisor or a mason. So, No matter how identical the projects are they differ from one another. Maybe because of the geographical location, terrain, diverse backgrounds of manpower, experience, cash flow the list is endless.

It is understood that we tend to to have individual ways of execution, thought processes and experiences . This is one of the reasons why Project Management or Project Controls will not be able to gel with ERP systems 100% as it is mainly run by People unlike other industries or sectors.

I personally think certain aspects of the Projects like HR, Procurement , Finance can adopt ERP to support the PM processes but not as a whole whether it is SAP, Oracle or Sage.

I would really appreciate fellow members to share their views as most people have already faced this or will face it in near future.

Thank you.

With the current Technologies and trends , adoption of ERP in the Construction Industry is seen as a viable solution to enhance the visibility and status of various projects in ever increasing competitive world.

However, When you look closely, ERP systems were introduced mainly for manufacturing industries which are standard repetitive processes.

Yes, ERP can be adopted in areas like HR, Procurement, Finance as the processes involved are repetitive and standard.

When you look at Project Management or Projects in general this is not applicable, as each project how identical they might be are run by People. 

Each person is unique be it a manager, engineer, supervisor or a mason. So, No matter how identical the projects are they differ from one another. Maybe because of the geographical location, terrain, diverse backgrounds of manpower, experience, cash flow the list is endless.

It is understood that we tend to to have individual ways of execution, thought processes and experiences . This is one of the reasons why Project Management or Project Controls will not be able to gel with ERP systems 100% as it is mainly run by People unlike other industries or sectors.

I personally think certain aspects of the Projects like HR, Procurement , Finance can adopt ERP to support the PM processes but not as a whole whether it is SAP, Oracle or Sage.

I would really appreciate fellow members to share their views as most people have already faced this or will face it in near future.

Thank you.

With the current Technologies and trends , adoption of ERP in the Construction Industry is seen as a viable solution to enhance the visibility and status of various projects in ever increasing competitive world.

However, When you look closely, ERP systems were introduced mainly for manufacturing industries which are standard repetitive processes.

Yes, ERP can be adopted in areas like HR, Procurement, Finance as the processes involved are repetitive and standard.

When you look at Project Management or Projects in general this is not applicable, as each project how identical they might be are run by People. 

Each person is unique be it a manager, engineer, supervisor or a mason. So, No matter how identical the projects are they differ from one another. Maybe because of the geographical location, terrain, diverse backgrounds of manpower, experience, cash flow the list is endless.

It is understood that we tend to to have individual ways of execution, thought processes and experiences . This is one of the reasons why Project Management or Project Controls will not be able to gel with ERP systems 100% as it is mainly run by People unlike other industries or sectors.

I personally think certain aspects of the Projects like HR, Procurement , Finance can adopt ERP to support the PM processes but not as a whole whether it is SAP, Oracle or Sage.

I would really appreciate fellow members to share their views as most people have already faced this or will face it in near future.

Thank you.