EPC Engenharia Projeto Consultoria Integrates Project Management with Enterprise Management, Increases Planning Staff Productivity by 25%
 
 

EPC Engenharia Projeto Consultoria Integrates Project Management with Enterprise Management, Increases Planning Staff Productivity by 25%

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EPC Engenharia Projeto Consultoria S.A. (EPC) provides engineering project management and consulting services. Faced with a growing number of projects and customers, EPC decided to implement a solution that would help improve project management efficiency and fully integrate with its internal control system. After deploying and using Oracle’s Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management in 100 successful projects, the company wanted to eliminate the complexity and risk associated with duplicate, manual data entries into the Primavera and ERP systems. It therefore decided to integrate the solution with its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, Totvs Microsiga 11.

This initiative enabled EPC to centralize data from each project, improving control and avoiding information loss. It also improved the planners’ productivity, as they no longer have to enter data into two systems—a task that required 25% of each planner’s time. The 10-member planning team can now dedicate this time to project management.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from EPC Engenharia Projeto Consultoria S.A.

  • “With Oracle’s Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management, we have more control over project budgets and provide planning executives with a wider view of the physical and financial aspects of every project, leading to more productive and precise management.” – Gleisson Amaral, Senior IT Analyst, EPC Engenharia Projeto Consultoria S.A.

  • Implement robust planning solution that improves the company’s ability to complete complex engineering projects on time and on budget
  • Integrate EPC Engenharia’s ERP system with a compatible project management solution to improve productivity and increase information accuracy by creating a single system to bring together data, status, indicators and scope for each project during all phases
  • Adopt a project management solution widely used in the engineering industry to easily consolidate updates regarding major customers, construction material and equipment suppliers
  • Improve the ability to plan for resource needs, ensuring that the correct number and type of resources are available when needed, to avoid delays and associated costs

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Adopted Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and later integrated it with the company’s internal control systems, improving data accuracy, version control, and visibility and streamlining engineering project management
  • Obtained a robust, stable, and feature-rich system to manage projects with large data sets—including image and chart layout files—and many concurrent users, thus raising the company’s productivity
  • Enabled professionals involved in each project to enter data simultaneously into Primavera P6 and the company’s production control systems instead of entering data twice, freeing 25% of their time for project analysis and other value-adding tasks
  • Provided a complete view of project activities to planners and customers who use the Primavera platform, enabling more effective deadline management
  • Integrated the operational timelines for construction projects on EPC’s internal production control systems and Primavera P6, facilitating information exchange about project progress and enabling early identification of emerging issues
  • Improved project control, enabling EPC to identify potential bottlenecks and delays in advance and make decisions to ensure that project deadlines are met

Why Oracle

“By choosing Oracle’s Primavera P6 Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management, we obtained a robust system that supports a large number of simultaneous users on individual and multiple projects, ensuring execution on time and on budget and maximizing our resources,” said Gleisson Amaral, senior IT analyst, EPC Engenharia Projeto Consultoria S.A.

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