Infrastructure, Project by Project

Executive Summary

Railway infrastructure work is project business at its most demanding: long executions at dispersed sites, materials and subcontractors converging on schedules, client billing tied to measured progress, and margins decided by how well costs are tracked against each contract.

With TEKROI as implementation partner, SSRail runs its projects on SAP Business One: project-wise procurement, site material control, subcontractor management and progress-linked billing — every contract’s cost and revenue story on one core.

About SSRail

SSRail is a Hyderabad-based railway infrastructure and engineering company executing projects for rail-sector clients.

The Challenge

Project businesses lose money invisibly — a little at every site, every month:

• Cost against contract — knowing a project’s true position meant assembling procurement, site consumption and subcontractor bills manually.
• Materials at dispersed sites — stock issued to sites drifted from the record without site-level control.
• Subcontractor complexity — work orders, measurements and retentions across vendors demanded discipline.
• Billing against progress — client invoicing tied to measured work needed the paper trail behind it.

The Solution

TEKROI implemented SAP Business One around SSRail’s project operations:

Project Cost Control

• Project-wise cost accumulation across procurement, site consumption and subcontracting — position visible during execution.

Site Materials

• Site-level stock and consumption tracking, closing the gap between issued and used.

Subcontracting

• Work orders, certifications and retentions managed against each vendor and project.

Billing & Finance

• Progress-linked client billing with the documentation trail, and project profitability on live data.

Implementation Journey

TEKROI’s fixed-scope methodology took the project from assessment to go-live through eight stages: assessment, blueprint, configuration, customization, data migration, training, go-live and ongoing support.

Results

• Project position, mid-project — cost against contract is known while corrective action is still possible.
• Site stock accounted — materials at dispersed sites stay on the record.
• Subcontractors under discipline — certifications and retentions follow process, not memory.
• Profitability per contract — each project’s margin story is a system fact informing the next bid.

Why This Story Matters

Infrastructure firms rarely fail on engineering; they fail on cost visibility. SSRail shows SAP Business One giving a project business its numbers in time to act on them.