In general, the Engineering, Procure, and Construct (EPC) industry has struggled for years to find solutions that would enable integrated operations across the enterprise. With the evolution of ERP systems, the major EPC players have started to see solutions. 

Large project-based organizations are working in a multinational, multi-currency environment struggle with how best to deal with currency issues when managing projects and reporting project and organization financial performance. Continue reading the blog to learn more about considerations:

Organizations that manage by project collect labor costs against projects via timecards. These organizations struggle with the rules/validations that need to be applied to this time collection process based on the following competing business requirements. Continue reading to learn more:

PJM is a solution delivered by Oracle to enable ATO/ETO-type firms that design and build manufactured items to client specifications. Each client order is managed as a project (due to some constraints), but the execution is done primarily in Project Manufacturing.

This is the first entry in what I hope will be a long-running log of business cases, issues, solutions, and anecdotes that I encounter in my day/s as someone who runs a project-based business, implements ERP solutions for project-based businesses, and advises users in project-based environments.