Aegion Corp. is a global leader in infrastructure protection. It provides proprietary technologies and services that protect against the corrosion of industrial pipelines and rehabilitate and strengthen water, waste water, energy and mining piping systems and buildings, bridges, tunnels, and waterfront structures. It is a newly formed parent company for Insituform Technologies, Bayou, Corrpro, CRTS, Fibrwrap, Fyfe, and United Pipeline Systems.
Challenges
- Strengthen and standardize project management processes across the organization, starting with the company’s Insituform Technologies group, which provides cured-in-place pipelines primarily to public sector organizations that have specific requirements
- Increase visibility into project schedules, budgeting, costs, and progress to identify emerging issues quickly and take action to minimize risk
- Improve operational efficiency and data integrity, and allow project management teams to focus on strategic priorities
- Standardize on a project management solution and integrate it with the company’s legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions to optimize its investment and reduce the need to maintain and support numerous duplicate IT environments across the organization
- Gain the ability to support larger infrastructure projects and an increase in global operations, while maintaining margins
- Ensure consistent and seamless project tracking and management, from the sales cycle, through to project completion
Solutions
- Deployed Oracle’s Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and Primavera Contract Management, Business Intelligence Publisher Edition, and integrated the solutions with the company’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0 and Oracle CRM On Demand applications to ensure end-to-end visibility and enhanced control for the company’s pipeline and infrastructure development rehabilitation projects—from new-business wins, through to project completions
- Standardized and created a single source for all project scheduling information that improved construction crew utilization, reduced penalties related to delays, avoided rush charges, and improved materials planning and utilization
- Gained insight into emerging issues and enabled more rapid corrective action, supporting on-budget and on-time completion of projects, including public sector construction initiatives that require granular reporting
- Improved ability to forecast labor and materials, avoiding delays, boosting customer satisfaction, and maintaining margins
- Expanded project manager insight and control with more accurate and comprehensive data, including the ability to see all aspects of a project in real time—from onset of scheduling and resource planning and including financial performance
- Standardized project scheduling and management processes to help support larger and more geographically dispersed projects
- Created a platform that the company can roll out across its seven operating companies, starting with the Insituform group
- Reduced the need for data re-entry across multiple systems to improve productivity and data accuracy and ensured that project management, ERP, and CRM systems share consistent and up-to-date information
A word from Aegion Corp."By integrating Oracle’s Primavera solutions with Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Oracle CRM On Demand, we’ve created a platform that will enable us to achieve new levels of project management precision—and competitiveness—going forward." – Justin McFarland, Director of Applications, Aegion Corp.
