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Every contractor is on schedule. So why is the milestone eleven weeks late?
Where the weeks actually went, discipline by discipline. What material really reached and was consumed at each site. Why subcontractor bills take a month to certify.
One EPC contractor found each discipline reporting on plan while the milestone slipped eleven weeks. Nobody had ever consolidated the daily reports.
One contractor lost seven weeks on a milestone. Every week of it had been visible to somebody on site. Nobody had added them together.
Industrial EPC companies — project milestone visibility live
As featured in PrintWeek India, April 2026 ↗
Three contractors. Each discipline was on schedule and the project was not.
01 The milestone that slipped daily
A project milestone does not collapse in the final week. It slips a little every day for two months.
Daily progress is reported by each contractor and each discipline. Nobody consolidates it against the plan, so the first honest total arrives when recovery is no longer possible.
One milestone, where the weeks went
Civil+2 weeks
Mechanical erection+6 weeks
Electrical+1 week
Instrumentation+2 weeks
Progress is recorded per activity by the people doing it, so a slip is visible while labour can still be moved.
11 weeks late → 3on the next milestone
Show me howFifteen minutes. Bring one milestone.
02 Material at four sites
Material is despatched to several sites at once. What reached, what was consumed and what came back is reconciled from challans, weeks later.
By then nobody can prove anything, and the difference is written off as site loss.
Material reconciliation, one project
Reconciled and matched62%
Unexplained variance27%
Returned, unrecorded11%
Every issue and return is recorded as it moves, per site and per godown.
27% unexplained → 6%on the next project
Show me howFifteen minutes. We look at one site.
03 Subcontractors, and the bill that followed
Subcontractors claim for work done. You believe most of it. Verifying it means somebody walking the site with a measurement book.
Certification lags, disputes build, and the same argument happens at every RA bill because the daily record was never joint.
Subcontractor bill, claim to certification
Claim submittedDay 0
Joint measurement9 days
Query and revision16 days
Certified6 days
Daily progress is recorded jointly at the activity, so the bill is a summary rather than a negotiation.
31 days → 12claim to certification
Show me howFifteen minutes. Bring one bill.
Nobody was late. The project was, which is a different problem.
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⚠ ⚠ Common delay: client inputs delayed — engineering cannot start without approved BFDs
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Engineering
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Process / Basic Engineering
Process flow diagrams, P&IDs, and equipment datasheets issued.
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Detailed Engineering
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⚠ ⚠ Common delay: drawing revisions — fabrication and procurement hold pending
Vendor Document Review
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⚠ ⚠ Common delay: review cycle takes weeks — equipment delivery delayed
As-Built Documentation
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Procurement
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Construction
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Civil & Foundation
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Equipment Erection
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Commissioning
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""We had 14 open procurement packages and I could not tell you which ones were at risk of delaying the critical path. Now I see every package status at 8 AM and I know exactly what needs escalation today.""
What improves in industrial project businesses using Clicarity
↓ 40%
Project milestone overruns
↑ 35%
On-time commissioning rate
↓ 60%
Weekly status meeting time
5 days
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Questions from industrial projects businesses
How does Clicarity work for a printing business specifically?
Clicarity is configured around your specific print workflow — pre-press, printing, finishing, dispatch — in your terminology. Every job gets a unique ID and moves through your defined stages. You see live status, timestamps, and alerts when a job sits too long at every stage. The Clicarity team builds everything for you. You go live in 5 days.
Does it work for both offset and digital printing?
Yes. Clicarity works for any print process — offset, digital, wide format, screen printing, or a combination. The stages are configured around your actual workflow. If offset jobs go through plate making and digital jobs skip that stage, both can be tracked correctly under the same system.
Can it track material wastage at each stage?
Yes — with the Multi Licence. At every stage, your team logs quantity in and quantity out. Clicarity calculates the loss automatically. You see wastage by stage, by job, live — not at month-end when nothing can be done about it.
Will my press operators actually use it?
Yes. The update screen has two fields — Job ID and status. Under a minute. No training needed. GP Offset's entire team was using it from day one, including floor workers who had never used a software system before.
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