| Planning culture |
The controls provided by ERP are based on the definition of the activities, their resources and sequencing, thus its usage will be effective only if the planning is effective. |
| Strategic guideline |
The company’s strategic guideline may be an inhibitor to ERP usage in production, if planning is not an organizational value. |
| Production management model |
Way in which the company plans, executes, and controls their enterprise. |
| Commitment from the senior management |
Important in ensuring resources, mediating conflicts and, especially, to ensure that the strategic options do not suffer from discontinuity. |
| Ability to support and experience from the supplier’s crew |
The knowledge of the product and the experience in the implementation are fundamental, especially considering that they will be productive processes being implemented. It is also fundamental to ensure that the problems are solved in an efficient, quick way. The supplier’s experience also includes the knowledge in the processes of construction planning. |
| Supplier’s assessment |
It concerns the financial health, posture regarding improvements in the products, credibility to other clients. |
| Usage of independent consulting |
Considering the sector’s little familiarity with innovation and organizational changes, little experience with technology and the fact that implementation happens only one time, having a consulting that helps the process is important. |
| Implementation strategy |
Having in mind the volume of changes and impact on the company (processes, control, people), the construction individuality, the resistances, the professionals limitations, the definition of strategy is CFS. It is understood that the small-bang (pilot construction) necessarily must be adopted. |
| ASP |
The way how the ASP is defined will determine the quality and feasibility of the management of the enterprise. |
| Training |
Without it the usage of the ERP is impossible. Its quality is also important, because without it there could be under-utilization of the system. Moreover, its lack is a factor of resistance to the implementation. |
| Registration of materials and compositions |
Fundamental data to the cost building and the identification of the resources that are needed to the execution of the activities. It has an impact on the sizing of the crew, the service hiring, and the purchases. |
| Engineer profile |
The ERP emphasize the manager’s management profile, besides the fact that the production management model provided by the ERP demand a planning profile. |
| Stockman profile |
The ERP implementation demands that the stockman has knowledge of operating a computer, tax notions, kwnoledge of services; usually, that professional has a very low educational level. |
| System technology |
The ERP technology may be impeditive to usage of this system in sites with low quality communication structure or also demand a very high cost of maintenance. |
Is it possible to implement ERP in the production function of civil construction?