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Estimating and Quoting |
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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.
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Material, Labor, Outside Services |
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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 MAS 90 or MAS 200 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 your material cost using the current value
of the 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.
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Speed and Accuracy |
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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 and
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.
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Price Calculation |
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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 possible pricing decision.
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