1. Structural Group – Prophix story
Operating since: 1976
Head office: Hanover, Maryland
Annual revenue: > $400 million
Number of employees: > 1,000
G/L or ERP: COINS, FAS
Company website:
Company background:
Structural Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides structural repair, maintenance, waterproofing, geotechnical construction, and strengthening services in the commercial, industrial, energy, and public markets. It designs, manufactures, and installs post-tensioning and specialty reinforcement systems and components. The company also offers chimney, silo, and stack design, construction, maintenance, and repair services, as well as hyperbolic cooling towers. In addition, it provides feasibility studies, preliminary designs, alternative proposals, detailing, project coordination, and contractor consulting services, as well as corrosion control and water intrusion prevention services. Further, the company specializes in ground conditions, control settlement, and stabilize and strengthen foundations and slopes, as well as baseplates, foundation, anchor bolts, and grouting systems for rotating pumps and motors. Structural Group, Inc. was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Hanover, Maryland with additional offices in Maryland, Louisiana, Illinois, Michigan, Florida, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Texas, California, New York, New Jersey, Georgia, Colorado, Virginia, Missouri, Utah, Pennsylvania, and Singapore.

2. Structural Group – Prophix story
Business problems that led to evaluating CPM, adopting Prophix:
Competitors for the business: IBM Cognos, Oracle Hyperion
Budgeting / CapEx Planning – Structural Group was collecting budgeting data from several Project Managers and Controllers who each did budgeting differently across branches in Excel, which meant they had to collect and consolidate the budgeting information manually for each branch to do cross-divisional reporting and comparison
The tedious nature of collecting the budget data meant they would plan at a very high level when they actually needed more detailed information across branches
Their Prophix solution:
This project started off with stream lining the budgeting process so users were limited to various categories for their budgeting purposes, and given the option for Line Item Details if more detail was required
Budgeting processes implemented provides users with a series of feeder schedules to streamline:
Tax and Insurance budgeting by Branch (Template)
Leasing expenses by Branch (Line Item Details)
Recruitment costs for new and replacement employees (DPM)
Detailed G&A Expenses by Branch (through DPM)
Detailed CapEx planning by Branch (though DPM)
Integration of Personnel Planning with COINS and Capital Expenditures with FAS

3. Supporting data: Life cycle Industry (choose all that apply)
☐ New implementation
Implementation date:
☐ Preexisting customer
Original implementation date: ________________
☐ Existing customer, upgrading YES, in Q2 2014
Original implementation date: Q4 2006
Industry (choose all that apply)
☐ Agriculture, forestry, and fishing
☐ Professional services
☐ Financial services
☐ Retail
☐ Wholesale and distribution
☐ Telecommunications
☐ Healthcare
☐ Utilities
☐ Education
☐ Architecture, engineering, and construction YES
☐ Life science
☐ Transportation and logistics
☐ Manufacturing
☐ High tech
☐ Media and entertainment
☐ Government
☐ Non-profit

4. Supporting data: Solutions built Capabilities used ☐ Budgeting YES
☐ Automation YES
☐ Forecasting YES
☐ Prophix Mobile
☐ Reporting YES
☐ Data integration YES
☐ Strategic planning YES
☐ Business modeling YES
☐ Financial consolidation
☐ Microsoft platform integration
☐ Analysis YES
☐ Role-based security YES
☐ Profitability analysis
☐ Collaboration YES
☐ Personnel planning YES
☐ Flexible deployment
☐ Project planning YES
☐ Ad hoc reporting and visualization YES
☐ Revenue planning
☐ Capital expenditures planning YES
☐ Reporting and analytics
(dashboards and scorecards)