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The construction industry is a pillar of economic growth globally, contributing a significant amount to a country’s gross domestic product (GDP). But it faces numerous challenges ranging from budget overruns, project delays, quality problems, labour shortages, increased regulatory compliance requirements, and more. It is compelling the construction companies to focus on novel ways to ensure greater client satisfaction, compliance, and improved profitability. Robotic process automation offers several opportunities for the construction sector. By automating key processes in the back office and on-site, RPA can help overcome the sector’s several challenges, including project delays.

Construction Industry Challenges

The construction industry faces a growing number of challenges, including:

Safety

Despite improvements in technology and workplace practices, worker safety remains a significant problem for the construction industry.

Cost Increases

Challenges such as growing regulatory requirements and changing client requirements result in a considerable increase in operating costs.

Risk Management

Despite the industry’s nature, risk management is non-existent, resulting in poor workplace safety, schedule and cost overruns.

Vendor Management

Delays in supplier payments or poor communication can lead to significant cost overruns, project delays, litigation, and reputational damage.

Scheduling

When to receive the materials or have a sub-contractor come to work is still one of the most pressing issues for the construction sector.

Labour & Skills Shortage

The construction industry, like all others, is facing a severe labour and skills shortage, impacting timely and successful project completion.

RPA Use Cases in the Construction Sector

On-site

While RPA is mainly associated with back-end office processes, it is not the case. RPA has numerous on-site uses, such as the preparation of materials, 3D printing of building materials, laying of bricks, and building demolition. As RPA technologies improve, the on-site application of RPA will further increase. It will result in the safe and error-free completion of projects, leading to increased profitability.

Invoice Processing

Delayed payments to vendors can turn out to be a headache for any organisation. In the construction sector, delayed payments mean the vendor withholding supply of key materials, leading to unwanted project delays. RPA bots can help you automate invoice processing by scanning, digitising, and validating the data from the invoice against the work order. It will result in faster, error-free invoice clearing.

Document Management

The construction industry produces countless documents ranging from blueprints to work orders. Managing all these documents in a single repository and extracting required information from them can be quite challenging. RPA bots can help with the digitisation of the ensure documentation process, ensuring that you have the required information readily available for quick and effective decision-making.

Cost Monitoring

An accurate picture of the project’s costs helps in effective planning and making adjustments as and when required. With so much data being generated during the project’s lifecycle, there is a probability that cost monitoring and forecasts are based on incomplete data. RPA bots can help develop accurate budgeting, cost, estimation, and on-demand reports by combining different data sources.

What’s the Next Step for You?

Agile Managex Technologies offers customised RPA solutions in the UAE and worldwide. We have extensive experience in catering to the unique ROA demands of several construction companies globally. If you want an RPA bot to automate key processes in your organisation, take the next step by contacting us. Our representative will be in touch with you to discuss your requirements further.

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