MARINE AND SHIPBUILDING

A hull is a multi-year ledger

A shipbuilding project outlasts budgets, suppliers and sometimes the people who estimated it. Keeping a multi-year, multi-phase build trackable means the work breakdown structure, the purchasing, the floor and the books have to stay one system for years at a time.

Visibility ERP holds that structure. Work breakdown structures in project accounting carry hyper-granular job costing across every phase, so cost and progress are known at the block and section level, not just the hull level. PLM and CAD integrate into the engineering backbone, keeping engineering, procurement and production on one version of the build. Project-specific inventory guidance in material planning ties long-lead purchasing to the hull it serves, with e-procurement, e-RFQ and e-invoicing running the supplier side.

Marine performance metrics and dashboards keep project and operational performance visible to the people steering it.

Inspection evidence where the work happened

Marine work answers to class societies, owners' representatives and regulators, and all of them want the same thing: evidence attached to the work. Inspection processing with CAR, NCMR and CAPA management runs on the shop floor record, so nonconformances, corrective actions and their closure live with the operations that raised them.

Shipbuilding compliance requirements are met from the production record itself, which is the only place they can be met honestly.

Common questions from marine and shipbuilding manufacturers

Can it manage a project that runs for years?

Yes. Multi-year, multi-phase projects are the design case: work breakdown structures carry cost, schedule and billing across phases, and the record stays coherent from keel laying to delivery.

How granular is the job costing?

As granular as your WBS. Costs land at the level where the work is defined, so performance analysis works at the block, section or system level rather than one number for the whole hull.

Does it integrate with PLM and CAD?

Yes, seamlessly. Engineering data flows into BOMs and routings on the engineering backbone, so procurement and production build from engineering's current version.

What is the implementation timeline?

Most implementations run four to six months, delivered by the people who build the product. None have failed since 1988.

Cloud or on premise?

Either. The same browser-based system runs as managed SaaS or on premise.