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ERP built for project-driven engineering and construction firms.

Job cost, progress billing, AIA invoicing, prevailing wage, multi-project reporting. We've delivered JDE for 40+ E&C firms, from regional contractors to publicly-traded engineering operators. 

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Why Now

Four forces are re-timing every mid-market engineering and construction firm's ERP decision.

If you're not prioritizing a platform conversation in 2026, these forces will make it for you. 

April 2025
Technology
JDE World extended support ended

If you're on World, you're running unsupported. Patching gets harder every month. You have three realistic paths: E1 upgrade, R98403 replatform, or NetSuite migration. 

IIJA
Regulatory
$1.2T infrastructure deployment active

Federal-funded work demands Buy America, prevailing wage, and project reporting you can't reconstruct. The firms winning this work have compliance wired into ERP. 

430K
Labor
Open construction jobs, labor shortage

Tribal knowledge is walking out the door. The processes that lived in your project manager's head need to live in the system before they retire. 

Day 5
Market
PE-backed operators want monthly close

Construction firms acquired by PE inherit a 20+ day close. Sponsors expect Day 5. That rhythm doesn't survive contact with legacy ERP. 

What We Do

Core services for engineering & construction firms.

JD Edwards
JDE Project & Job Cost Suite

Job Cost, Contract & Service Billing, Change Management, Subcontract Management, and Advanced Pricing. Configured for lump-sum, cost-plus, T&M, and unit-price contracts. 40+ E&C implementations. 

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NetSuite
Cloud ERP for smaller contractors

For specialty contractors, design firms, and emerging construction operators who don't need JDE's depth. NetSuite's integrated project accounting for time, expense, and services-based billing. Delivered on the DREAM methodology and backed by our Signature 100% Guarantee. 

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Managed Services
AppCare & SuiteCare

Senior consultants on JDE (AppCare) or NetSuite (SuiteCare) who treat your environment like their own. You get a dedicated team that knows your OEM integrations, your quality workflows, and your production line. instead of a help desk queue rotating tickets through whoever is on shift. 

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Integrated
Cybersecurity + Cloud

vCISO, SIEM, TISAX preparation, and cloud hosting built into your ERP scope. We don't refer this out. Critical for suppliers to defense-adjacent OEMs, firms handling OEM technical data, or operators carrying cyber insurance requirements. 

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Industry Challenges

Every mid-market engineering and construction firm is fighting a version of these.

Sixteen challenges, four buckets, organized around how construction and engineering buyers think about their work. Click through to see what each one costs and how GSI solves it. 

01
Job cost reports are weeks behind the field.
02
Change orders live in email. Nobody sees the margin impact until close.
03
Subcontractor insurance tracking is a spreadsheet nightmare.
04
Equipment utilization is invisible across projects.
Margins eroding
"Our job cost reports are weeks behind what's actually happening in the field."

Field labor, material deliveries, and equipment hours happen in real time. When job cost reporting is three weeks behind, project managers are making decisions on stale data. By the time you see the overrun, you've already paid for it. 

How GSI Solves This · JD Edwards
JDE Job Cost with mobile time entry, real-time commitments, and daily labor posting. Project managers see actual vs. budget on the day the hours are logged, not three weeks later. 
"Change orders live in email. Nobody sees the margin impact until project close."

Every change order is a margin conversation, but if they're tracked in email threads and Excel logs, nobody catches cumulative impact. Projects that looked profitable at week 20 quietly drift underwater because change orders weren't priced against the original contract. 

How GSI Solves This · JD Edwards
JDE Change Management with approval workflows, impact on budget forecasts, and customer change orders integrated to billing. Every change updates the margin forecast in real time. 
Insurance exposure
"Subcontractor insurance tracking is a spreadsheet nightmare. I don't know if everyone on site is covered right now."

Uninsured subs are operational and legal exposure. If someone gets hurt on site and you can't produce current COIs, you're liable. Most firms track this in spreadsheets that go out of date the moment a policy lapses. 

How GSI Solves This · JD Edwards
JDE Subcontract Management with automated COI tracking, policy expiration alerts, and payment holds when insurance lapses. No one gets paid if their coverage is expired. 
"Equipment utilization is invisible across projects."

Heavy equipment is one of the largest capital investments on your balance sheet. If utilization is low across the portfolio, you're either over-owned or mis-deployed. Without cross-project visibility, you can't tell which. 

How GSI Solves This · JD Edwards
JDE Equipment Management with utilization reporting, cross-project availability, and automated internal billing. See every piece of equipment, every project, every day. 
01
AIA billing is manual. Every draw takes 3 days.
02
Retention tracking across multi-year projects is in Excel.
03
Progress billing doesn't match cost-to-complete.
04
WIP reports take weeks and nobody trusts the numbers.
Cash flow impact
"AIA billing is manual. Every draw takes 3 days and delays cash."

AIA G702/G703 billing that runs manually is a three-day cycle per project. For firms with 20+ active projects, that's a week of billable cash delayed every month. Late billing is the single largest cash flow drag in mid-market construction. 

How GSI Solves This · JD Edwards
JDE Contract & Service Billing with automated AIA G702/G703 generation, retention, and schedule of values. Draws go out on day 1 of the billing cycle, not day 4. 
"Retention tracking across multi-year projects is in Excel."

Retention can represent 5 to 10% of contract value held back over years. When tracked in spreadsheets, retention gets forgotten, mis-applied, or released incorrectly. Every percentage point of retention you lose is margin. 

How GSI Solves This · JD Edwards
JDE Contract Billing with automated retention tracking by contract, progress milestones, and release workflows. Nothing gets forgotten at project close. 
"Our progress billing doesn't match cost-to-complete. We're either over- or under-billing."

Percentage complete billing has to match percentage of cost incurred, or revenue recognition is off. Over-billing ages; under-billing strangles cash. Mismatched billing and cost is the fastest way to blow a PCM audit. 

How GSI Solves This · JD Edwards
JDE Job Cost integrated with Progress Billing for cost-to-complete based revenue recognition, ASC 606 compliance, and automatic under/over-billing calculation. 
"WIP reports take weeks and nobody trusts the numbers."

Work-in-progress reporting is how investors, lenders, and bonding agents measure project health. If the WIP report takes three weeks, it's already stale when it hits the bank. And if nobody trusts it, you're not getting the next line of credit. 

How GSI Solves This · JD Edwards
JDE Job Cost with automated WIP calculations, over/under billing tracking, and bonding-ready reports. Generated on day 5, not week 3. 
01
Davis-Bacon and prevailing wage compliance is a manual grind.
02
Buy America documentation for federal work is disorganized.
03
OSHA incident reporting happens after the fact, not in the system.
04
Lien waiver tracking is slowing down the close every month.
DOL audit exposure
"Davis-Bacon and prevailing wage compliance is a manual grind."

Federal-funded construction work requires certified payroll (WH-347) and prevailing wage compliance across dozens of trade classifications. DOL audits don't give you warning, and manual certified payroll is where firms get caught. 

How GSI Solves This · Cybersecurity + JDE
JDE Payroll with Davis-Bacon configuration, trade classification rules, automated WH-347 generation, and fringe benefit tracking. Certified payroll becomes a scheduled report. 
IIJA deadlines
"Buy America documentation for federal work is disorganized."

IIJA-funded projects require documented Buy America compliance on steel, iron, and manufactured products. If you can't produce the documentation when the federal auditor shows up, you can't win the next project. 

How GSI Solves This · Cybersecurity + JDE
JDE Procurement with supplier Buy America flags, material provenance tracking, and documented audit trail against federal contract requirements. 
"OSHA incident reporting happens after the fact, not in the system."

Incidents reported in paper forms get transcribed later, often incorrectly. OSHA 300 logs that don't match field reality are audit findings waiting to happen. 

How GSI Solves This · Cybersecurity + JDE
JDE Safety Management with mobile incident entry, automated OSHA 300/300A/301 logs, and root-cause workflows. Safety data lives in the system, not in a binder. 
"Lien waiver tracking is slowing down the close every month."

Unconditional lien waivers are required before you can fully close out project payments. Missing waivers block close and create legal exposure. Manual tracking at scale across 50+ active jobs doesn't work. 

How GSI Solves This · Cybersecurity + JDE
JDE Subcontract Management with automated lien waiver tracking, payment gates, and electronic execution. No waiver, no payment. No exceptions. 
01
JDE World extended support ended. We need a path forward.
02
Our MES and ERP don't share data. Production runs blind.
03
15 years of custom JDE code and nobody remembers why.
04
Monitoring tells me about slow JDE after production already stopped.
Support ended April 2025
"JDE World extended support ended. We need a path forward."

As of April 2025, JDE World environments are running unsupported. Security patches are harder to source, OEM EDI integrations are degrading, and every new hire finds the stack harder to understand. The longer you wait, the narrower your options get. 

How GSI Solves This · JDE or NetSuite
Three-path assessment that compares E1 upgrade, R98403 iSeries-to-SQL replatform, and NetSuite migration against your OEM commitments, compliance profile, and growth plans. 
"Our MES and ERP don't share data. Production runs blind to scheduling changes."

Automotive parts production schedules change constantly based on OEM sequence and ASN requirements. If MES can't see ERP-level schedule changes, you produce the wrong parts in the wrong order. 

How GSI Solves This · JD Edwards
JDE Orchestrator integrated to MES (Siemens, Rockwell, GE, and others) as native JDE, not middleware. Schedule changes flow instantly to plant floor systems. 
"I have 15 years of custom JDE code and nobody remembers why."

Custom code accumulated over years of OEM-specific configurations, integrations, and workarounds becomes institutional debt. When the developers who wrote it leave, every enhancement turns into a risk assessment. 

How GSI Solves This · KinectIQ
GENOME AI for JDE custom code modernization. Converts legacy custom code to modern Orchestrations, with automated documentation, dependency mapping, and test coverage generation. 
"Monitoring tells me about slow JDE after production already stopped."

Reactive monitoring in automotive manufacturing means a line stop is your first signal. Every minute of downtime costs thousands in direct labor and OEM penalty exposure. 

How GSI Solves This · KinectIQ
GENIUS AI monitors JDE and NetSuite environments 24/7. Anomaly detection, natural-language queries on environment data, and predictive alerts that catch problems before they reach the line. 
Quick Answers

Common questions about GSI engineering and construction consulting.

The short version. For regulatory detail, case study depth, or differentiation, keep reading below. 

What does GSI do for engineering and construction firms?

We build and run the ERP environments engineering and construction firms rely on. JDE Job Cost, Contract Billing, Change Management, Subcontract Management, Equipment Management, and field time entry. Most of our work runs on JDE for portfolio-scale contractors. 

What types of engineering and construction firms do you work with?

General contractors, specialty trades, civil and heavy construction, engineering firms, design-build operators, and federal contractors. Typically mid-market up through publicly-traded. Marek Bros, MWH Global, and Willbros are among our references. 

JDE or NetSuite for my engineering and construction operation?

Depends on scale and project complexity. JDE Job Cost fits firms with multi-year contracts, field labor, equipment fleets, and AIA-style billing. NetSuite fits smaller specialty contractors and design firms who want cloud ERP without JDE's depth. We deliver both. 

Can GSI handle Davis-Bacon and prevailing wage?

Yes. JDE Payroll with Davis-Bacon configuration, trade classification rules, automated WH-347 generation, and fringe benefit tracking. Certified payroll becomes a scheduled report, not a month-end scramble. 

What about Procore, Viewpoint, or field software integration?

JDE Orchestrator handles Procore, Viewpoint, scheduling tools, and mobile field software as native JDE, not a middleware project. Real-time data flow across your stack without manual re-keying. 

What makes GSI different for engineering and construction?

Three things worth knowing. We run JDE at portfolio-scale construction across 40+ E&C implementations. We don't refer cybersecurity, cloud, or AI work out to third parties. Those practices are on the same bench. And our consultants average 15 years in the industries they serve, so you're not paying us to learn your jobsite. 

Davis-Bacon (Federal-Funded Projects)

Prevailing wage enforcement for federally-funded construction. Requires certified payroll (WH-347), trade classification, and fringe benefit tracking by project.
DOL audits active

Buy America (IIJA Projects)

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act domestic content requirements on steel, iron, and manufactured products. Documented supplier provenance required.
Enforcement climbing

ASC 606 (Revenue Recognition)

Percentage-of-completion accounting for long-term contracts. Cost-to-complete calculations, contract asset and liability tracking, and performance obligation identification.
Annual audits

OSHA (Workplace Safety)

300/300A/301 incident logging, safety training records, hazard communication. Construction incident rates trigger enforcement priority, making clean records critical.
Daily operations

Lien Law (Multi-State)

State-by-state mechanic's lien rules, notice to owner, preliminary notice, and waiver execution. Missing a notice window can void the lien right entirely.
Per-project deadlines

SOX (Public Construction Firms)

Internal controls over financial reporting for publicly-traded E&C firms. Percentage-of-completion revenue requires documented estimate review and change order controls.
Quarterly filings
Case Study

Marek Bros: JDE Job Cost for one of the largest specialty contractors in the Southwest.

Engineering & ConstructionJD EdwardsJob Cost
How GSI stood up JDE Job Cost, Billing, and Change Management at portfolio-scale specialty construction.

Marek Bros runs commercial specialty contracting across Texas and the Southwest with a substantial project portfolio. They needed JDE Job Cost configured against the real operational profile of a regional contractor, not a generic ERP template. GSI delivered the implementation with construction-specific workflows for progress billing, change orders, and subcontract management. 

Multi-state
Project Footprint
JDE
Job Cost & Billing
40+
E&C Projects Delivered
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GSI understood specialty contracting before we walked into the first meeting. They weren't learning construction on our project; they'd configured JDE for firms just like ours before. 

Operations Leadership
Marek Bros, Specialty Construction
The GSI Difference

Six practices. One bench.

Most established E&C firms run on JDE. The decision doesn't stop at the module though. Job cost, billing, compliance, and integration to your project management stack all get delivered from the same bench, with no referrals out and no offshore handoffs. 
Primary practice

JDE Job Cost, delivered with construction depth

We don't just configure job cost modules. We run JDE environments where daily labor posting, multi-project change management, and AIA billing have to hold up every month. The hard part of E&C ERP isn't the modules themselves. It's making them survive contact with an actual jobsite. 
Job Cost · Contract Billing · Change Mgmt
Primary JDE modules in scope
Subcontract · Equipment · Payroll
Field operations and compliance
40+ E&C implementations
From regional contractors to publicly-traded operators
NetSuite
For smaller contractors
When JDE is overkill, NetSuite's integrated project accounting handles time, expense, and services-based billing on our DREAM methodology. 
HubSpot
Bid pipeline & pursuit
HubSpot CRM with JDE integration for bid pipeline, pursuit management, and client portals. Delivered through Flawless Inbound. 
Cybersecurity
For federal contractors
vCISO, SIEM, CMMC prep, and federal contract security. all on the same bench rather than referred out. 
KinectIQ
AI for ERP environments
GENIUS monitors JDE and NetSuite 24/7. GENOME modernizes legacy code. 
Delivery
North America-based
Consultants in your time zone, with no offshore handoffs when the project is on a critical path. 
Frequently Asked

The questions engineering and construction firms ask us most.

Yes. We configure JDE for Davis-Bacon prevailing wage, Buy America documentation, and certified payroll workflows. Federal contract compliance is built into how we implement, not bolted on afterward. 

Yes. JDE Orchestrator handles Procore, Viewpoint, Plangrid, and other project management and field software as native JDE integration. Real-time data flow, no manual re-keying, no middleware. 

Extended support ended April 2025. Our three-path assessment compares E1 upgrade, R98403 iSeries-to-SQL replatform, and NetSuite migration against your project portfolio, compliance profile, and growth plans. GSI is one of the few firms that can perform R98403 Data Dictionary transformations. 

Yes. JDE Contract & Service Billing generates AIA G702/G703 forms automatically, tracks retention and schedule of values, and integrates with Job Cost for cost-to-complete revenue recognition under ASC 606. 

Depends on scope. NetSuite implementations for smaller contractors run 4 to 6 months on DREAM. JDE implementations for mid-market to large E&C firms run 8 to 16 months. JDE World-to-E1 migrations run 6 to 12 months. Timelines get published at assessment, not guessed at. 

Both. GSI is #1 on G2 for NetSuite for five consecutive years and is an Oracle Platinum Partner with 500+ JDE projects. We route the platform conversation based on your operational profile, not our bench utilization. 

Start with an engineering and construction assessment, not a demo.

Thirty minutes with an engineering and construction practice lead. We'll walk you through what an assessment covers, what it costs, and whether GSI is the right fit, before anyone signs anything. 

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