FORMA.
FORMA is a fictional business scenario created by CODEVILLE to demonstrate an ERP and project-control approach. Interfaces, organizations and figures shown in this case are illustrative and do not represent a client engagement or measured business results.
A project can look profitable before all the costs arrive.
Project progress may live in one place, purchase orders in another, material withdrawals somewhere else and variations in spreadsheets or messages. The reported margin can therefore tell only part of the story.
Progress moves fast.
Cost information doesn't.
Unlinked purchasing
Purchase commitments can exist without being immediately reflected in project cost visibility.
Missing variations
Changes in scope may affect the commercial position before they appear in management reporting.
Material movement
Site and warehouse activity needs to connect back to the project consuming those resources.
Historical reporting
Knowing what has already been spent is different from understanding where the project is heading.
Connect the events that change the project.
FORMA demonstrates a proposed operating model where project activity and financial impact move through the same connected system.
Budget
Site Activity
Variations
Management
Not just what happened.
What is likely to happen next.
Bring cost and progress into the same conversation.
Instead of treating project reporting as a collection of separate updates, the system can connect purchasing, material usage, approved changes and progress to the project's commercial position.
Cost tells one story.
Progress tells the other.
Operational control improves when management can view project progress alongside the commercial information affected by that progress.
From project updates to portfolio visibility.
Which projects need attention? Where is margin changing? Which commitments are still open? What should management look at today?
ERP isn't the goal.
Operational control is.
FORMA demonstrates CODEVILLE's approach to ERP: start with the decisions the business struggles to make, identify where operational information breaks, and connect the workflows required to make that information useful.