The project to build the global business management system is a large-scale project including the head office and overseas business sites.
The global business management system unifies operational procedures, management methods, terminology, and other items globally. It is crucial to develop an IT infrastructure so that all project data can be stored at the same degree of granularity. Junichi Masukawa, General Manager of the IT Management Unit, Global Project Management Division of Chiyoda Corporation, talks about the purpose of building the global business management system as follows:
“By utilizing accumulated data, it is possible to perform detailed cost management, manage schedules, quickly identify project risks, and strengthen the PDCA cycle, thus also improving management efficiency and global governance. Our primary purpose is to realize operation data management that raises our competitiveness and execution capability by constructing IT infrastructure, which is the source of the initiative in joint ventures.”
A business partner who understands the key points of system construction and global operations and who can properly grasp the business of Chiyoda Corporation is essential. Chiyoda Corporation has chosen ABeam Consulting as a partner company after various considerations. The business design and basic design phases started in August 2011. In these phases, they took a long time to discuss the businesses to be achieved by using global templates as well as system functions again and again with the consulting staff of ABeam.
Through the development phase and test and transition phase, the company started full-scale operation at the head office of Chiyoda Corporation and in Qatar, one of their sites in the Middle East, in April 2013. This project involved more than 300 people, including over 150 staff members of ABeam and other business partners and clients.
The global business management system project aimed to build global templates, and implement them at the head office and in Qatar. Such a large project normally takes at least two years for implementation in the head office alone, but this project was completed in just 18 months.