Success Story

Archer Corp: Projects to Maintenance

One operating environment links construction and maintenance work with sales, purchasing, inventory and accounting across a multi-project business.

Archer Corporation illustration linking a port-side construction project through Odoo to maintenance and accounting.

About Archer Corporation

Archer Corporation is a Suez-based engineering and contracting business whose services include construction, project management and facility management. Its public portfolio spans commercial, industrial, residential, and port and logistics environments, including published work for DP World. The company therefore works across two connected phases: delivering projects and maintaining facilities after delivery. Archer Solutions' ERP engagement covered one company and multiple projects; the scope focused on construction, maintenance and the commercial and financial processes that support them.

Business Challenges

  • Excel-based records made construction projects and ongoing maintenance difficult to coordinate through one consistent operating view.
  • Purchasing and inventory activity needed to relate to the project or maintenance work that required materials.
  • Sales and accounting records needed a clearer connection to operational activity across multiple projects.
  • Management needed comparable project and maintenance information without relying on separate spreadsheets as the main coordination layer.
Odoo workflow linking Archer Corporation construction projects, sales, purchasing, inventory, maintenance and accounting.

ERP Solution Delivered

Archer Solutions implemented Odoo for Archer Corporation across construction, maintenance, sales, purchasing, inventory, projects and accounting. Project and service work can be recorded alongside the materials and financial records that support it. The system moves key operational information from Excel into a shared environment for the company's multi-project work, while preserving the distinction between construction delivery and ongoing maintenance. A project can be followed through its commercial and materials activity, while maintenance work retains its own service context. This gives operational and finance teams a common basis for reviewing work across multiple projects without presenting construction and facility service as the same process. The distinction matters when a completed project becomes an ongoing service responsibility. Both phases remain visible in the same operational record.

Modules Used
Construction & Projects Maintenance Sales Purchasing Inventory Accounting

Implementation Approach

The August 2025–January 2026 delivery connected construction and maintenance work with material and financial records across projects. Analysis informed configuration and tailoring of the agreed scope. Company-policy access, starting-data preparation, workflow validation, training and go-live support prepared the team for daily use.

01 Analysed the project, maintenance and material records coordinated in Excel, including the links needed between operational and financial teams.
02 Configured and tailored construction, projects and maintenance, connecting Sales, Purchasing, Inventory and Accounting within the agreed scope.
03 Set user roles and access permissions according to company policy and the responsibilities of the participating teams.
04 Prepared the approved master data, opening balances and stock records required for the delivered financial and materials workflows.
05 Validated the connected project, maintenance, purchasing, stock and accounting workflows before live use.
06 Trained participating users to carry out their daily work and the handoffs between project, materials and financial functions.
07 Completed implementation in January 2026 and provided go-live support as the teams adopted the connected operating environment.

Results and Business Impact

Construction and maintenance work can be reviewed in one Odoo environment rather than through separate Excel-based records.
Project teams can relate purchasing and inventory information to the work the materials support.
Accounting and operational records share the project context needed to follow work across the delivered scope.
The 20-user implementation brings project delivery and subsequent maintenance into a connected operating model.

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