Construction, Real Estate and Built Environment

Industry Overview

Fast Forward supports organizations in construction, homebuilding, and built-environment operations where project-based financials, procurement controls, and supply chain integration are critical. We help these organizations bring structure and visibility to complex, multi-project environments.

Key Challenges

•    Project cost management across large portfolios of concurrent construction or development projects

•    Procurement and subcontractor management with complex lien waivers, retainage, and compliance requirements

•    Revenue recognition complexity for percentage-of-completion and milestone-based contracts

•    Integration between field operations, project management, and enterprise financial systems

•    Real estate portfolio management including lease accounting under ASC 842 / IFRS 16

How Fast Forward Solves it

•    SAP S/4HANA for Construction and Project Systems (PS) configuration

•    Project cost management with earned value analysis and variance reporting

•    Procurement and subcontractor workflow automation with compliance controls

•    Lease accounting configuration for ASC 842 / IFRS 16 compliance

•    Real estate portfolio management using SAP RE-FX

Relevant SAP Solutions

•    SAP S/4HANA for Construction

•    SAP PS (Project Systems)

•    SAP RE-FX (Flexible Real Estate)

•    SAP Ariba for Procurement

•    SAP RAR for Contract Revenue

•    SAP Analytics Cloud

Business Outcomes

•    Real-time cost-to-complete visibility across active projects and portfolios

•    Reduced procurement risk through structured subcontractor compliance workflows

•    Accurate project revenue recognition reducing audit findings and restatement risk

•    Compliant lease accounting for all owned and leased real estate assets

•    Improved cash flow management through better project billing and collections visibility

Why Fast Forward

Construction and real estate SAP implementations require an understanding of project-based business models that most ERP consultants lack. Fast Forward brings both the technical configuration depth and the industry knowledge to design solutions that handle real-world project complexity from multi-phase developments to large homebuilding portfolios.