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Highlights
- Engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) project complexity often leads to issues such as delays, budget overruns, inefficient resource use, fragmented data, and environmental compliance challenges.
- Oracle Fusion Cloud provides a unified cloud platform that integrates project management, supply chain, finance and field service operations. With AI-driven automation and connected workflows, it streamlines execution and enhances operational efficiency across EPC projects.
- TCS further enhances EPC transformation through TCS CrystallusTM EPC for Construction, a preconfigured business offering built on our deep EPC industry domain expertise.
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Overview
Our AI-enabled Oracle ERP Cloud asset empowers construction firms to overcome cost overruns, delays, and fragmented project execution.
Our TCS CrystallusTM EPC for Construction offering integrates project management, finance, supply chain, HR, and field operations into one connected framework to support adaptive billing models, improve procurement, and simplify stakeholder management.
With AI and GenAI capabilities from Oracle Cloud, the offering introduces predictive forecasting and intelligent recommendations, helping teams to anticipate risk and maintain continuity under fluctuating conditions.
EPC industry challenges
Fragmented systems, rising costs, and global supply chain disruptions can derail the success of engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) projects of construction companies.
Unexpected spikes in material costs, changes in project scope, or inaccurate initial estimates can create budget overruns. Schedule delays in EPC projects often stem from unforeseen issues such as late material deliveries and labour or equipment shortages. Any delay can result in financial penalties or even breach of contract.
Also, disruptions in the supply chain, unexpected price changes, or delays in procurement can significantly hinder construction progress and push project timelines beyond their intended deadlines.
An enterprise can deploy extensive IT solutions to enhance efficiency, collaboration and risk mitigation. However, enterprise information systems often contribute to confusion, as they typically operate in isolation and maintain fragmented, siloed data, making coordination and decision-making more difficult. A single source of truth for the entire project team is typically missing, which causes communication bottlenecks and uncertainty in decision-making.
Our TCS CrystallusTM EPC for Construction offering empowers construction firms to overcome cost overruns, delays, and fragmented project execution.
It integrates project management, finance, supply chain, human resources (HR), and field operations into one connected framework to support adaptive billing models, improve procurement, and simplify stakeholder management.
With artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI) capabilities from Oracle Cloud, the offering introduces predictive forecasting and intelligent recommendations, helping teams to anticipate risk and maintain continuity under fluctuating conditions.
EPC industry challenges
Fragmented systems, rising costs, and global supply chain disruptions can derail the success of engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) projects of construction companies.
Unexpected spikes in material costs, changes in project scope, or inaccurate initial estimates can create budget overruns. Schedule delays in EPC projects often stem from unforeseen issues such as late material deliveries and labour or equipment shortages. Any delay can result in financial penalties or even breach of contract.
Also, disruptions in the supply chain, unexpected price changes, or delays in procurement can significantly hinder construction progress and push project timelines beyond their intended deadlines.
An enterprise can deploy extensive IT solutions to enhance efficiency, collaboration and risk mitigation. However, enterprise information systems often contribute to confusion, as they typically operate in isolation and maintain fragmented, siloed data, making coordination and decision-making more difficult. A single source of truth for the entire project team is typically missing, which causes communication bottlenecks and uncertainty in decision-making.
Our TCS CrystallusTM EPC for Construction offering empowers construction firms to overcome cost overruns, delays, and fragmented project execution.
It integrates project management, finance, supply chain, human resources (HR), and field operations into one connected framework to support adaptive billing models, improve procurement, and simplify stakeholder management.
With artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI) capabilities from Oracle Cloud, the offering introduces predictive forecasting and intelligent recommendations, helping teams to anticipate risk and maintain continuity under fluctuating conditions.
Offering
TCS CrystallusTM EPC for Construction is an AI-powered offering providing clarity for every stage of the EPC journey.
Our integrated EPC project offering unifies back-office and field operations and brings project planning, scheduling, and execution into one consistent workflow, giving teams a real-time view of progress. Every project is grounded in a pre-defined template and can be tracked in real time to understand changes in cost, revenue, and timelines.
Supply chain
The supply chain engine leverages project-specific forecasts, demand signals, and on-hand inventory to optimise material availability without overstocking and guarantee timely completion. By integrating project management and procurement cloud, scheduling, sourcing, and material movement is fully synchronised.
Field service
Field service technicians can access job details, check parts availability, reserve inventory, and collaborate in real time through a single mobile app, while supervisors can manage workforce allocation based on live requirements. By enabling this responsive and connected field experience, our offering reduces downtime and keeps operation activities moving efficiently.
Costing layer
Material usage, expenses, and overheads flow into a costing layer, providing immediate visibility to budget impact. Automated accounting ensures secure and compliant handling of transactions. Linking supply chain with finance and operations strengthens control over the project lifecycle, simplifying billing, approvals, and payments to ensure comprehensive governance.
Offering approach
The offering combines finance, supply chain, project management, and field service to optimise operations, foster collaboration, and reduce delays and cost overruns.
It provides a robust workflow and real-time collaboration features to significantly reduce delays and cost overruns for EPC projects (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: High-level process flow
An intuitive user interface simplifies planning and scheduling of complex project tasks—iteratively. Successful and timely completion of the project is achieved through detailed task breakdown capabilities, continuous project tracking, timeline reviews, and clear communication—enabled by the Oracle Fusion Project Management Cloud.
Approach
This offering offers a unified approach to automating strategic sourcing, managing supplier relationships, and streamlining purchasing processes to achieve cost efficiency, lower risks, and enhance project profitability.
Through automated cost calculations, real-time expenditure tracking, and seamless integration with core operational domains—including finance, procurement, inventory, and manufacturing—the offering ensures financial accuracy and operational alignment.
Centralised communications
By centralising communication and collaboration, the offering enhances operational efficiency and reduces reliance on traditional methods such as email and in-person meetings. It establishes a single source of truth, ensuring consistent access to information across teams, regardless of location or time zone. Additionally, the offering promotes transparency by maintaining a complete accessible record of all communications, mitigating the risk of information loss or oversight.
Field service management
The offering includes field service management that offers advanced capabilities such as AI-powered real-time scheduling, intelligent route optimisation, and Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled predictive maintenance. It also includes mobile features such as cross-device browser and app access, offline capabilities, real-time updates, and integrated collaboration tools for technicians. The offering drives measurable improvements in technician productivity, operational cost efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
Proof of concept
A leading multinational infrastructure construction company has enabled real-time collaboration with TCS Crystallus.
The company, renowned for managing complex projects across North America, has a workforce of 22,000 professionals, and an extensive fleet of specialised equipment, and offers scalability, geographic reach, and financial stability to tackle the most demanding projects.
TCS offering
TCS mapped the company’s processes and designed an Oracle Fusion Cloud-based model detailing the end-to-end EPC workflow, including how transactions are managed within Oracle. The offering incorporated the following modules:
- PPM (project portfolio management): For project planning, budget and cost tracking, revenue recognition, and billing
- Contracts: For managing inter-company agreement
- Procurement: For creating purchase requisitions (PRs), purchase orders (POs), and managing supplier invoices related to the project
- Payables (AP): For processing supplier invoices and making payments
- Receivables (AR): For generating customer invoices and processing receipts
- Cash management: For bank reconciliation and cash flow monitoring
- Fixed assets (FA): For capitalising project costs into assets and managing depreciation
- Supply chain management (SCM-Inventory): For tracking material receipts—though for large plant components, direct delivery to site is common and might bypass formal inventory modules, with costs directly charged to projects.
- Oracle Field Service Cloud (OFSC): To streamline field operations with AI-driven scheduling and real-time resource tracking, ensuring timely project delivery and efficient workforce utilisation.
Benefits:
TCS successfully delivered a robust offering addressing key EPC bottlenecks and enabling real-time collaboration to minimise delays and cost overruns.
- Single source of truth: Integrated application for end-to-end execution with seamless integrations between PPM, procurement, supply chain, OFSC, and finance cloud
- Reduced cost and time: 8-10% reduction in overall project cost and schedule timeline
- Accuracy in project cost control: 95% accurate tracking of project cost against project budget identifying areas where projects costs are over or under budget.
- Corrective actions: Enables insights needed to make data-driven decisions, such as adjusting resource allocation or exploring cost saving opportunities.
- Intelligent scheduling: AI-driven algorithms optimise schedules by matching tasks to the right technician based on skills, certification, and location, ensuring resources are used efficiently during the relevant project phase.
The TCS advantage
With decades of Oracle expertise, TCS delivers intelligent, future-ready solutions tailored to your business needs by deploying and integrating Fusion Cloud Applications.
Our deep domain experience in the EPC industry also allows us to better formulate an efficient, industry-standard solution within Oracle Fusion ERP.
With TCS you can expect:
- Expertise backed by 30+ years of Oracle partnership
- Proven experience with Oracle solutions tailored to both industry and business processes.
- Domain-rich, preconfigured assets, including pre-built solutions in TCS Crystallus™ on Oracle Fusion Cloud, utilising TCS’s extensive industry domain and implementation experience
- Design phases accelerated by 20% with EPC industry-specific processes already embedded into the solution
- Accelerated time-to-market and accelerated paths towards business process transformation
- Technology integration with seamless integration and faster ROI
The way forward
Companies can gain significant competitive advantage with the TCS CrystallusTM EPC for Construction offering.
By leveraging AI and GenAI, the offering drives operational excellence for business users and accelerates business growth in the EPC sector. Our offering helps clients unify supply chains, project execution, field service, finance, and enterprise operations to enable synchronised, automated, predictive, and resilient processes that deliver measurable business impact.