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JobOps —Estimating
and Quoting
The start of many jobs is determining what
price to charge. Charge too much and the
business is lost to a competitor. Charge
too little, and a small profit could quickly
become a huge loss. Accuracy is critical
in estimating the cost of a job if you are
to win the business and make money doing
so.
Material, Labor, Outside Services
JobOps Job Management Software provides tools to quickly determine a job’s
estimated costs by determining the costs of the job’s components – material,
labor, and sub-contracted services.
Integration with the Sage MAS 90 or 200 ERP Inventory Management quickly tabulates
material costs. Whether you use standard cost, LIFO, FIFO, average cost, lot
valuation or a combination of these valuation
methods, JobOps will estimate
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materials needed. Items not kept in inventory that
will need to be
purchased direct to the job can also
be estimated, without having to add the item to your
inventory system. Labor is estimated by calculating
the number of hours to be performed in a work center
by your cost for that work center.
Outside services
are also estimated in as much detail as you wish
to provide.
Speed and Accuracy
To quickly enter the detail
for estimated materials, labor, and services,
JobOps allows for and estimate/quote to be created
from a template, copied from a previous quote,
or from an actual job that you have already done
or are currently working on.
A template includes
a Bill of Material and a Router detailing the
steps required to complete the job. If you do
similar types of work for various customers on
a make-to-order basis, templates are ideal. The
template includes the materials, labor and services
required to build a single parent item. If your
estimate is for a higher quantity, the costs
for the parent item will be scaled as needed
to give you the total cost for the quantity desired.
Starting your estimate by copying from a past
quote or job is similar in approach to the templates
described above. However, when copying from a
completed job, you also have the option of using
the estimated costs from that job or the actual
costs that were incurred, providing you with
another opportunity to improve the accuracy of
your estimate.
Regardless of whether you use
templates, past quotes or actual jobs, once the
information is copied, JobOps allows for the
materials, labor and services to be changed to
reflect the unique requirements of the job being
estimated.
Price Calculation
Now that the estimated costs
have been determined, JobOps can also be used
to determine the price to charge. JobOps will
determine a suggested price based the desired
mark-up using margin or profit for the calculation.
You have the final decision on the price to be
used, but JobOps allows you to quickly determine
the total costs so that you can make the best
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 JobOps
- 2 page brochure (PDF 174 kb) |
| JobOps
- 8 page overview brochure (PDF 1,402 kb) |
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