Engineering & Construction · Project Finance
Project Overruns Now Surface Early, With Cost Control Up 35%
A Spain-based engineering consultancy running complex infrastructure projects moved four legal entities onto one cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform. We deployed SAP Business ByDesign, integrated project management directly with financial operations, and centralized multi-company management. Project cost control improved 35% and resource utilization 25%.
35%Better project cost control
25%Higher resource utilization
98%Financial reporting accuracyThe Challenge
Project costs and resource allocation were managed through disconnected accounting systems across four legal entities and multiple countries. On complex, multi-year infrastructure projects that is a common source of margin leakage, because cost overruns are easy to miss until it is too late to correct them. The consequence was a quiet, steady drag on margin. Overruns showed up after the fact, when the only option left was to absorb them. Project managers were reading a rear-view mirror while committing people and money to the next phase, and leadership had no early warning at all.
What We Did
We deployed SAP Business ByDesign as a single cloud platform for the consultancy, then integrated project management directly with financial operations so project cost and resource data moved together instead of being reconciled between systems afterwards. We centralized multi-company management across the four legal entities, so the group runs one set of processes and one reporting standard rather than four. Financial reporting accuracy now sits at 98%, and the same structure carries into new markets without a new system.
The Solution
One cloud ERP now runs project delivery and finance together across four legal entities. Cost and resource data update in real time, so overruns show as an early warning rather than a year-end surprise.
The Outcome
Project cost control improved 35% and resource utilization 25%. Four legal entities now run on one ERP with 98% financial reporting accuracy, and the group is set up to scale into new markets on the same platform. Margin leakage stopped being invisible. Project managers see cost and resource use as work happens, so a phase can be corrected while there is still time. Leadership reads one number for the group instead of four sets of accounts.
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