Pain point 1：Fragmented project cost data
Typical challenges today
Excel, ERP, finance systems, OA, email, Word
Leads to
- Data cannot be unified
- Delayed information updates
- Leadership cannot see project cost status in real time
SIWICLOUD SC AI_PRO
Full project lifecycle
Cost control software
Manage cost planning, execution, control, and settlement across the project. CBS is the structure and the Cost Sheet is the single view, so cost can be planned, traced, analyzed, and controlled.
SC AI_PRO overview — Cost Sheet
Cost lifecycle
From estimate to settlement, one control chain
- 01 Estimate management
- 02 Budget management
- 03 Contract management
- 04 Payment management
- 05 Change management
- 06 Claims management
- 07 Cost management
- 08 Final settlement
The problem owners face
What is getting in the way of project cost control?
Pain point 2：Budgets fail to serve as true control tools
Many projects stop at basic design without detailed design, leaving no control budget and no view of total cost.
Questions
- Does contract award exceed budget?
- Do changes exceed control limits?
- Have purchased materials exceeded control? What are projected costs going forward? Hard to answer quickly.
Pain point 3：Final project profitability is unpredictable
Traditional management
Month-end tally: How much has been spent?
Executive management needs
What will the project ultimately cost?
Required
- EAC (forecast cost at completion)
- ETC (cost to complete)
- Projected profit trend
Pain point 4：Change and claim impacts cannot be quantified
During project execution
Design changes, site certifications, negotiations, and claims occur frequently:
“It happened, but it was not reflected in the cost forecast.”
Leads to
Project margins keep falling.
Pain point 5：Headquarters cannot control multiple projects
Enterprise groups
Dozens of projects running in parallel.
Headquarters needs to know
- Which projects carry the highest risk?
- Which projects may lose money?
- Which contracts are at risk?
- Which projects have tight cash flow?
Pain point 6：Project control relies on individual experience
Personnel changes
Data silos.
What enterprises need
Turn proven practice into a standardized project cost control framework.
What is SC AI_PRO? Where is the core value?
SIWICLOUD SC™ AI_PRO
SC AI_PRO is a lifecycle cost control platform for major engineering projects—digital management from estimates through contracts, budgets, changes, claims, payments, to final cost forecast.
Core value： Forecast final project cost dynamically from current cost performance.
Shift from after-the-fact accounting to forward-looking forecasts—from spotting cost variances to controlling cost risk early.
Intelligent calculation base
Engineering-grade AI engine
Intelligent compute foundation for project control—from manual processing to smart calculation
Built-in AI capabilities Powered by local compute Intelligent project data processing AI capability assetization
AI_PRO engineering-grade AI engine use cases
Private-domain large language model
Switch between multiple models
Data localization
Data security
AI automatic CBS rollup
AI correlation fusion matrix
AI decisions
Excel intelligent conversion
AI data processing
AI assetization
Core capability
Cost Sheet master cost table
One CBS-based view of all project costs
Cost Sheet is the cost hub of SC AI_PRO. Estimates, budgets, contracts, payments, changes, certifications, claims, and costs roll up to one master table by CBS node for structured view, comparison, and control.
- Expand and roll up by CBS hierarchy
- Aggregate contracts, documents, and actual costs
- Target / Incurred / Paid Comparison
- Variances and overruns at a glance
- Multi-version cost comparison
- Single source of truth for lifecycle costs
Cost Sheet master view
Cost Sheet CBS expand view
CBS cost breakdown
Core product value
Why SC AI_PRO
Full lifecycle cost control
From investment targets through final settlement—cover every cost phase and build an end-to-end cost control chain.
Unify cost language with CBS
One project, one cost framework, one data source—connect investment, contract, and cost silos.
AI improves management efficiency
Reduce manual classification, Excel wrangling, and tallying—smarter, faster cost data processing.
Track cost status in real time
Analyze target, incurred, paid, and estimate-at-completion in real time to spot variances and risks early.
Core functions
Seven modules for the full cost workflow
01
CBS cost breakdown management
Establish a unified project cost control framework
Use CBS to structure project costs and aggregate spending across phases and sources for end-to-end tracking.
- CBS framework establishment
- Cost category management
- Multi-level cost breakdown
- Integrated with Cost Sheet
02
Cost Sheet master cost table
View and roll up all project costs on a CBS basis
Using CBS as row structure, consolidate all project cost transactions on one master sheet. Managers can view targets, contracts, incurred amounts, payments, and forecast final costs by node for full lifecycle cost comparison.
- CBS structure expand and rollup
- Enterprise-wide cost aggregation
- Target vs. Actual
- Variances visible in real time
03
Investment and budget control
Establish target cost baseline for the project
Cost targets by project phase for investment control and execution analysis.
Estimate management
- Estimate development
- Estimate transfer
- Estimate changes
Control budget management
- Control budget
- Control budget transfer
- Control budget changes
Construction drawing budget management
- Construction drawing budget
- Construction drawing budget transfer
- Construction drawing budget changes
04
Contract cost control
End-to-end management of contract value and cost execution
Unified revenue and procurement contracts across the engineering contract lifecycle.
Prime contract management
- Bid pricing
- Prime contracts
- Prime contract changes
- Prime contract payments
Procurement contract management
- Procurement contracts
- Procurement contract changes
- Procurement contract payments
05
Changes, variations, and claims
Control project cost changes dynamically
Changes, variations, and claims materially affect final cost. Manage both revenue and expenditure sides in one place.
Revenue side
- Upward claim
- Upward counterclaim
- Revenue variation orders
Expenditure side
- Downward claim
- Downward counterclaim
- Expenditure certifications
- Other costs
06
AI intelligent cost rollup
Smarter, faster cost data processing
Identify cost name, amount, and category; intelligently assign to your CBS; support bulk processing in Excel.
- AI recognition
- AI matching
- Automatic rollup
- Bulk import
- Data cleansing
- Format conversion
- Automatic matching
- Quick validation
07
Final settlement management
Close the loop on final project cost
Final settlement, cost confirmation, cost analysis, and project data retention.
- Final settlement management
- Final cost confirmation
- Cost analysis
- Project data accumulation
Product strengths
Every cost stage, one chain
Investment, contracts, and cost no longer sit in separate systems. CBS gives one project, one cost language, and one source of data.
- Investment phase
- Estimate phase
- Budget phase
- Contract phase
- Construction execution
- Claim changes
- Final settlement
Live cost control
See project cost status as it changes
Give managers five answers at any time, and surface variance and risk early.
Target Cost
What is the target cost?
Incurred to date
How much has been incurred to date?
Paid
How much has been paid?
Estimated at completion
What is the estimate at completion?
Variance analysis
Where are the variances?
What a pilot delivers
What does the project have when the pilot ends?
01 | Unified cost structure
Establish project CBS
Map WBS, contracts, budget, and actual cost to CBS for one consistent cost control language per project.
02 | Clear cost baselines
Establish a dynamic cost baseline
Establish target cost, budget, contract cost, and control baselines to support variance analysis.
03 | Connected business data
Connect schedule, contracts, and cost
Link WBS → CBS → contract → budget → actual → schedule and cut manual Excel roll-ups.
04 | Predictable project cost
Generate completion cost forecasts
From current execution, dynamically compute incurred cost + ETC → forecast at completion to spot potential overruns early.
05 | Quantifiable cost variance
Find out why costs are off track
Drill down from project → WBS → CBS → contract → cost detail to pinpoint sources of cost variance.
06 | Repeatable control methods
Codify project cost control methodology
After the pilot you gain more than software data—a CBS framework, control rules, data models, analytics, and processes to standardize rollout.
