Introducing Sage HCM for Construction: Connecting workforce and financial data for smarter operations
Construction companies face complex workforce challenges when payroll, HR, and financial data live in disconnected systems. Sage HCM for Construction brings these together in one connected platform, improving visibility, accuracy, and project performance.
Construction companies manage some of the most complex workforce operations of any industry.
Labor moves between jobsites, crews, entities, and cost codes. Payroll teams manage union requirements, certified payroll, prevailing wages, and multi-state compliance.
Project teams need accurate labor data to understand job performance. And finance teams are expected to tie all of it together quickly enough to support smarter business decisions.
But for many contractors, workforce and financial data still live in disconnected systems. Payroll sits in one platform. HR lives somewhere else.
Time tracking and job cost data move through spreadsheets or manual processes. And accounting teams are left piecing together the full picture after the fact.
When workforce data is separated from project and financial data, it becomes harder to understand labor costs, improve payroll accuracy, forecast profitability, and proactively manage project performance.
According to Deloitte’s Human Capital Trends research, nearly 75% of organizations say improving how workforce data supports decision-making is now a critical priority.
In this article we’ll look at how Sage HCM addresses these challenges, along with a client case study to give its features and benefits a real life context.
Key takeaways
- Disconnected workforce and financial systems create significant operational challenges for construction companies, including payroll errors, manual reconciliation, and limited labor cost visibility.
- Sage HCM integrates HR, payroll, time, and talent workflows in one platform, connecting directly to Sage Intacct Construction, Sage 300 CRE, and Sage 100 Contractor.
- Connected workforce and financial data helps construction businesses improve labor cost tracking, project profitability forecasting, and overall business decision-making.
- PRG Group reduced manual payroll processing from a three-day outsourced effort each cycle to a streamlined, integrated workflow, freeing teams to focus on higher-value work.
Here’s what we’ll cover:
What is Sage HCM?
Sage HCM is a modern human capital management solution that brings HR, payroll, time, and talent workflows together in one connected system. Designed for organizations with more complex operational needs, including multi-entity operations and multi-jurisdiction payroll, Sage HCM helps businesses gain a clearer view of workforce costs and how they impact performance.
For the construction industry, Sage HCM supports union rules, certified payroll, and prevailing wage requirements, while linking labor data directly to project financials, including Sage Intacct Construction, Sage 300 CRE, and Sage 100 Contractor.
Breaking down silos between payroll, operations, and finance
“For many construction businesses, labor costs are one of the biggest drivers of project performance, but payroll, HR and finance data often sit in separate systems,” explained Dustin Stephens, CEO, Alliance Solutions Group.
“Bringing these together gives customers a clearer view of labor costs, improves payroll accuracy and helps them make better decisions at both project and business level. This gives customers stronger control over project performance and supports more predictable, profitable outcomes.”
For companies like PRG Group, that shift from disconnected systems to connected workforce and financial data is already making a meaningful difference.
PRG Group: A case study
PRG Group is a growing contractor based in Montana, managing luxury residential, commercial, civil, and concrete operations across multiple entities and project types.
As the company grew, disconnected systems created increasing operational challenges.
“We had siloed solutions everywhere,” said Amanda King Dalman, Director of Technology and Training. “You find yourself cracking open Excel, and then you’re opening yourself up to manual entry errors, formula errors, and version control problems.”
Payroll and job cost allocations were especially time-consuming. Manual processes required extensive reconciliation work every payroll cycle, creating delays and increasing the risk of inaccuracies.
“We had one outsourced accounting person working around the clock for three days every payroll cycle,” Amanda explained.
PRG Group knew it needed a more connected approach. The company implemented Sage Intacct Construction alongside Sage HCM to create a streamlined, integrated technology foundation across the business.
Connecting labor data directly to project financials
For Amanda, the value of Sage HCM goes far beyond payroll processing.
The integration between Sage HCM and Sage Intacct Construction helps connect workforce data directly to project financials, improving visibility into labor costs, job profitability, and business performance.
“We just felt like it was the best fit for our business,” Amanda said. “We weren’t going to have the workarounds we had experienced in the past with disconnected systems.”
Today, PRG Group manages multi-entity financials, payroll, project contracts, budgets, job costing, purchase orders, and subcontract management through Sage solutions designed specifically for construction workflows.
With Sage Intacct Construction and Sage HCM together, the result is less manual work, better visibility, and more confidence in the data driving business decisions.
The company also gained far more accurate visibility into labor costs within project budgets — an area that had previously been difficult to track. “Having that directly in our budget is so valuable,” Amanda explained. “We can actually understand, ‘Hey, this is how much the labor is costing.’”
That visibility helps PRG Group make smarter decisions around forecasting, estimating, profitability, and workforce planning.
From reactive to proactive
One of the biggest changes for PRG Group has been the ability to shift accounting and operations teams away from reactive work and toward more strategic decision making.
“Our accounting team has been able to spend more time on forecasting, budgeting, and making smarter decisions about the business rather than reacting,” Amanda shared. “We’re really striving to be proactive versus reactive.”
With connected workforce and financial data, the company can now better understand labor costs, improve payroll accuracy, and reduce the manual effort previously required to reconcile data between systems.
The time savings alone have been significant. PRG Group also eliminated the need for outsourced accounting support during payroll processing and gave internal teams more time to focus on higher-value work that supports profitability and project performance.
“It’s all interconnected,” Amanda said. “The time drives the efficiency, drives the transparency, and drives the accuracy.”
Read the full PRG Group success story.
Sage HCM: Built for the future of construction
The launch of Sage HCM represents another step forward in Sage’s strategy to help construction companies connect workforce management, finance, and operations in a more unified way.
As Amanda stated, “Now having this really streamlined, integrated tech stack, I feel we’re in a really great position to take some of those lower-value tasks off our plate and become even more efficient.”
For construction businesses looking to reduce complexity, improve visibility, and better connect their workforce and financial operations, Sage HCM and Sage Intacct Construction together provide a modern foundation built for how contractors operate today—and where the industry is headed next.
Sage HCM for Construction
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