Business Needs
The supply chain in the construction industry is made up of numerous small companies working, generally, on one-off contracts. A team exists only for the duration of a specific project.
This creates an undue emphasis on cost and geography in choice of supplier. It also means that each project involves data of various types because companies tend not to invest in synchronised systems.
The introduction of Design-Build-Finance-Operate contracts, which give bidders responsibility for the lifetime availability of their assets, is now promoting accountability and longer-term partnerships.
To support this shift, teams need to share up-to-date information. With current ERP, EPM, Risk, and CRM systems, analysis and sharing of information is slow and error-prone. Managers lack a real-time view of project progress. A system supporting real-time sharing of common data is crucial to successful collaboration.
Solution
Main contractors can promote mutual responsibility, effective communication, and
data-driven decisions by introducing a standardised system for all parties to record
and share project information.
The 2007 Microsoft® Office system can supply such a system using the capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Groove® 2007. The solution provides a project management dashboard that captures information in near real-time from multiple sources and synchronises it to create a decision support system.
When team members cannot access SharePoint Server, they can create a
collaborative space in Office Groove 2007. The information is then synchronised with
SharePoint Server.
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