RIB BuildSmart - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Designed for construction and engineering companies, BuildSmart is an enterprise management solution that offers costing and enterprise accounting. An integrated system, BuildSmart eliminates departmentalization and aims to streamline real-time analysis to cover any possible accounting scenario. Features include Procurement, Accounting, Payroll, Plant, Yard & Store Management, Subcontract Management, Business Intelligence, HR and Time & Attendance.

RIB CCS understand that value is leaked or lost across the entire project lifecycle, where labour costs and plant & equipment management represent the largest areas of potentials risk. These risks are all managed through BuildSmart, where BuildSmart leverages the benefits of best practice and years of experience in the contracting industry, so that it allows any contracting organisation to immediately gain a competitive advantage.

From purchase order to payment cycle, BuildSmart handles the entire requisition process with procurement tools. Businesses can eliminate common procurement issues, such as billing errors, and view real-time order statuses using integrated electronic request for quotations (eRFQ), configurable multi-level workflow approvals, and extensive reporting tools. During the accounting process, BuildSmart is able to provide real-time cost management information by reporting all accrued and actual project costs, by activity and ledger code. Additionally, BuildSmart can manage any organizational structure and will also manage inter-company transactions, consolidations, and reporting, on top of multiple currency environments.

BuildSmart’s real time cost reporting capability ensures that the latest activity based costings and updates are readily available when required. BuildSmart makes it possible to accurately compare actual costs to anticipated project costs in real-time, allowing for timely management interventions and leading to improved margins.