The project is built once. It is recorded five times.
Tellum connects estimating, project management, procurement, project controls and finance so cost, change and margin appear while there is still time to act on them.
One project exists in five different versions.
Each version is maintained by a different person, on a different cycle, in a different system. By the time they agree, the money is already spent.
- ON SITE
The foreman knows the riser is three days behind because the valves have not landed.
- PROJECT SOFTWARE
The programme still shows the riser starting on Monday. Nobody has updated it.
- THE ERP
The purchase order is committed. The revised delivery date was never written back.
- SPREADSHEETS
The cost report carries last month's forecast and a labour rate from the tender.
- THE BOARD REPORT
Margin is reported at 7.4%. The site knows it is not 7.4% any more.
Objects, states and owners — held in one connected record.
When the supplier acknowledgement moves, the cost to complete moves, and the application for payment moves with it. The same event, once, everywhere it matters.
Choose the right tools
We assess what estimating, project management, procurement and finance actually need to do, then keep the systems that earn their place and retire the ones that only create re-keying.
Integrate and report
We move committed cost, valuations, change orders and progress between systems on a schedule, so the cost report is produced from records rather than rebuilt by hand each month.
Automate the operation
Purchase order approvals, subcontractor payment applications, retention releases and site returns run as tracked steps with an owner and a due date on each one.
Move rigid ERP workflows into a flexible operating layer
The ERP stays the ledger. Everything that changes weekly — rates, forecasts, allowances, sequencing — moves to a layer your commercial team can change without a change request.
A cost overrun found in the month-end report is history. Found on the day the supplier slips, it is still a decision.
- OBJECT
- PO 48127 — MECHANICAL VALVES
- SUPPLIER
- HARLAND PIPEWORK LTD
- OWNER
- R. OKONKWO — PROCUREMENT
- ORDERED
- 2026-06-11
- ACK DUE
- 2026-06-18
- ACK RECEIVED
- NONE — 14 DAYS OPEN
Valve delivery moves to week 34. Riser installation slips six working days. Two mechanical gangs stand idle at £4,180 per day, and AFP 09 loses £62,400 of planned valuation, which moves the cash into the following month.
Tellum raises this on day one of the delay, to the person who can chase it, not at month end.
Tell us the report that is always late. We will show you where it is held up.
We work with construction contractors in the UK and US. First conversation is a review of your systems and one process, with a written finding at the end.