Challenges

• Streamline the monitoring and management of multiple railway development and construction projects across India by providing operations staff, team leaders, and central planning teams with easy access to financial and operational information
• Deliver railway projects faster and cut overall project costs

Solutions

• Engaged Oracle Partner Gaea Global Technologies to deploy Oracle’s Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and Primavera Contract Management to improve the management of seven railway development projects across India
• Enabled planning teams to update railway project plans and make them available to team leaders and operations staff in real time rather than by request and to view any project’s status from multiple locations
• Allowed contract managers to upload inspection reports—often relating to mechanical equipment used to build railways—and make the reports available immediately to other project staff
• Enabled managers to keep track of construction documents delivered to the customer, design consultants, and project teams from a central location, improving communication between multiple stakeholders and eliminating approximately 20 hours spent searching for project data
• Provided alerts and notifications if bank guarantees were set to expire
• Deployed a central repository for project-related information, which provided staff with one version of the facts
• Provided project staff with customized daily reports in various layouts—such as s-curve graphs and dashboards—based on their work area
• Integrated project-related financials with other project information—including project reports and dashboards—which enabled project staff and senior managers to easily determine the financial and work status of projects, allowing them to rectify adverse situations, such as projects running over time or exceeding budgets

Why Oracle

Previously, a small number of planning staff at Larsen & Toubro used Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management to complete railway project plans and schedules.

“We did look at competing systems but quickly realized the Primavera solutions were the most suitable, so we deployed them across our entire business,” said Anuradha Katti, head, IT, Railway Business Unit and Power Development Limited, Larsen & Toubro.

Partner

Oracle Partner Gaea Global Technologies helped Larsen & Toubro design standard project reports, determine how project documents would be stored and managed in the system, and developed rules that would guide each stage of the project.

The company is also providing ongoing training and support to around 160 staff using Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and Primavera Contract Management.