Conventional gossip: Idlers have special feelings for the EPC engineering industry. The first job Xian Ren graduated that year was as a construction siege lion on a construction site. The title sounds very bluffing, but in fact it is about the same as a migrant worker, who flies over the wall like a monkey on the scaffolding in the cold winter and scorching heat!
A Glimpse of the Construction Site
Project in execution (REL)
Almost completed (TECO)
Because of an accidental opportunity, the project office stepped into the threshold of SAP, and since then embarked on another "migrant worker" road. The idler has always been grateful for the first job in his life-if there is no such job, I am afraid that I will not have the opportunity to enter the IT industry-may not be able to marry a wife-may not have children... Idlers are more and more lamented, life is A program is full of various uncertainties, if elseif elseif …endif. But once a choice is made, the destiny code is executed.
Well, the gossip ends here. Let's talk about the EPC engineering industry.
There are several common contracting modes in the engineering industry
EPC is also what we often call turnkey project of general contracting. When the construction unit invests in a certain project, it chooses a general contracting unit to undertake the construction, and finally delivers it to the construction of a complete single project. Simply put, the process is not too much for me. Entrust you with full responsibility, and finally check in with your bags.
The important feature of the EPC model is to give full play to the role of the market mechanism. Investors usually only specify technical standards, specifications, technical requirements and other basic requirements, so that the general contractor’s design, procurement, construction and other subcontractors can jointly seek the most economical and effective method to implement the project.
In order to effectively compete, the EPC general manager Contractors generally divide the entire project into several relatively independent work packages. The general contractor can subcontract part of the work in the contract to the subcontractor, but
the biggest feature of the EPC model is the fixed total price. Under the EPC model, it is rare for the owner to allow the EPC general contractor to adjust the price due to cost changes. Therefore, in order to prevent risks, the EPC contract price of the EPC contract is often higher than the contract price of the traditional contract model.
1. Features of EPC industry
1. Industry ecology. The ecosystem of the EPC industry. The peripheral supporting industries of EPC companies are very rich, basically involving all corners of the national economy.
2. Process characteristics: According to the project's entire life cycle management, from business opportunities to maintenance and after-sales, the project will generally be managed in stages.
3. Matrix organization structure. Horizontal, project organization, and vertical traditional corporate functional organization. This kind of organization is characterized by flexibility. The project team is formed temporarily according to the project to maximize the use of resources, but there will be conflicts of instructions. How to understand? To give an example of a business scenario, the project won the bid to carry out the work. The project manager asked the boss of the design department to ask a designer to join the project team to serve the project, but the designer also undertakes part of the R&D tasks of the design department, and therefore works with the project. There was a time conflict, and the project manager and the design boss began to talk about each other in the same way-delaying my project/department work, you can afford it! !
4. Business features
1) Manage by project
2) Design, procurement and production are interactive and parallel. At the beginning of the project, there is only a small amount of specific detailed information. The model of designing while purchasing and producing (trilateral business)
3) Cost control is aimed at the project breakdown structure
4) The project plan stipulates the deadline and delivery control date of each stage
5) Complex zero Procurement of components (outsourcing) requires collaborative work between designers and suppliers
6) Key materials must be purchased "in advance"
7) Subcontract management
8) On-site installation and commissioning management
9) After-sales service management and technical asset management
The problems faced by this are
1) The completeness, effectiveness and timeliness of the information transmission from the sales department to the project management department.
2) High degree of customization. It is mainly manifested in the diversity of products, resulting in a huge amount of product coding and a low reuse rate.
3) Project changes are more common. Controlling the cost of changes and monitoring the impact of changes are the difficulties and key points of project process control.
4) Project plans are divided by business departments. The composition of the plan, the sub-plans have a constraint relationship, the adjustment of a single department plan, how to feedback the impact on the entire critical path in real time is a difficult point in plan management.
5) There are two instructions for the project line and the platform department line, and the company needs a management department that coordinates these two line instructions. The key point is how to solve the multi-project collaboration between departments;
6) The financial and business data are disconnected, and the feedback from business to financial is lagging.
Second, the core solution
The following scheme is relatively old, and now SAP mainly promotes SAC cloud BW. In fact, the soup is changed, not the medicine! In the management of the cockpit, the idlers don't catch a cold with this title, and get goose bumps all over! How simple the report or indicator is! !
3. Examples of special solutions
1) Project integration. This feature, sap stopped updating in 2013, the OpenPS plug-in can only support the English version of Project2007. Hey, such an easy-to-use tool has been abandoned.
2) Design drawing document management. The greatest value of an EPC enterprise is considered by idlers to be technical files, that is, design drawings. This piece needs to be supported by the DMS module, and the drawings and files can be directly linked to the WBS structure. Easy to check.
The current popular solutions still rely on PLM to manage graphs and documents and integrate with SAP. Idlers have always believed that the ERP server used to archive unstructured data is really a waste and overkill!
The above scheme is only a small part of the excerpt, and it still represents the technology of 10 years ago. In the current era of rapid technological advancement, it seems very low. But from the point of view of idlers, technology is only appearance and always serves business. In the previous article on process design, it was an immutable truth for business owners to chase profits. Those of us who do SPA consulting services must first think about how to add value to the company and consider what technology to use!
PS: The EPC engineering industry is an industry that idlers have always dreamed of making a difference. Although I can't see a large-scale spread in front of them, the original intention of idlers has not changed.
Opportunities are won, and you have to harden yourself. Compared with PS consultant upgrading tree, idlers still have a long way to go!