Purchasing Power
March 5, 2009 by ZZadmin123
Purchasing Power provides your purchasing department with all the tools they need to fully automate the contracting process. From entering budgets and bids to generating payment schedules this module will assist you with contract preparation and the printing of all the necessary reports and documents. Since it links with the other IBSWIN modules, it shares the common subcontractor, project, phase, and lot information. It provides a simple electronic interface to your accounting software to export your commitments and eliminate redundant data entry. Give your purchasing department the power!
Subcontractor Information
Provides master database with all pertinent information on each of the subcontractors and suppliers that you order from. It includes the ability to enter and track license and insurance information and automatically gives you expiration warnings when creating new contracts
Budgets Made Easy
Just like your current Excel spreadsheets you can easily enter your on and offsite budgets and even track any revisions. Compare your budgets to bids and to contracts already issued to determine your variances. For off-sites IBSWIN will even create a bid request sheet which can be used to solicit bidding on actual items that have been budgeted.
Bid Entry and Awarding
Enter and revise bids and easily compare them to your budgets to help you determine who to award your contracts to. Awarding a bid is a simple "click of a button" that will transfer the bid information automatically help create your contract documents.
Off-site Contracts & Change Orders
Simple entry of each line pertaining to your offsite contracts and change orders or select them from a predefined list. Generate payschedules, addendums, and/or exhibits. Provides a simple one-screen history of all the contracts and change orders issued to each sub.
Automated On-site Contracts
By entering the bid costs per plan for a specific subcontractor the system will automatically "spread" the cost to each lot and pay point. Saves time and errors. Print pay schedules breaking down your costs by lot and pay point and other contract documents.
Generate, Print, and Edit Option Purchase Orders
Simple interface to Options Plus allows purchasing to view the option orders and generate necessary purchasing reports.
Create and Print other Purchase Orders
Provides you with a simple tool for generating purchase orders and back charges.
Automatic Contract Merge with Microsoft Word
Allows you to easily print boiler plate documents and scopes of work prepared in Microsoft Word.
Available Commitment Reports
- Contracts, change orders, and purchase orders summarized by project/phase.
- Purchase order detail by lot.
- Commitment detail by subcontractor.
Automated Data Interface to Construction Accounting
Currently IBSWIN has interfaces with Sage Timberline, Master Builder, and other accounting systems.
Sample Reports
- Contract
- Budget Contract Comparison Report
- Subcontractor Agreement
- Contracts Summary Report
- Purchase Order Summary Report
- Direct Construction Budget
- Direct Construction Budget vs. Actual
Sage Software for Construction Accounting
October 15, 2008 by ZZadmin123
Sage 100 Contractor (formerly MasterBuilder) and Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate (fomerly Timberline) were built for homebuilders of all types with one goal in mind; they should work the way your company works. The result is one single-source solution that connects all your key business functions and gives you flexibility to meet your unique needs. Plus, with these Sage Software products you’re able to personalize your computer for easy access to the information most important to you. Please go to www.sagecre.com to get more information.
Flexibility to Choose
Sage 100 Contractor and Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate are fully integrated financial and operations software that links every facet of your business, eliminating redundancies and speeding the flow of information between departments. The software’s modular design means you’re getting just the software you need with the advantage of knowing it can flex and expand. Sage provides you with the right solution for your business.
Accounting
Manage subcontracts, job costing, profit analysis, and variance tracking.
Estimating
Create quick and complete estimates and budgets.
Procurement
Automatically turns estimates into RFQs.
Project Management
Link on-site managers to the home office for key up-to-the-minute information.
Reporting and Other Tools
Customize and cut through the clutter. Run real-time reports the way you want to see them.
Homebuilder Specific Modules
The Integrated Builder Series from Pharaoh Information Services, Inc. integrates with these Sage Software products for homebuilders and provides sales tracking and reporting, options and upgrade ordering, budgeting and bidding control, customer service/warranty, and construction scheduling.
IBSWIN is recommended by the following Sage Timberline Dealers:
- Accordant Company, LLC – serving the East Coast with a main office location in New Jersey — Ph. 973-887-8900 — www.accordantco.com
- Alliance Solutions Group – serving Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, California, Northern Nevada, and the Caribbean Islands — Ph. 888-559-9540 x 2002, www.alliance-SG.com
- Bangert Computer Systems – serving the central US States – Ph. 800-458-7369, www.bangertcomputer.com
- CFO On The Go -serving California’s Inland Empire and beyond – Ph. 951-699-6900, www.cfosonthego.net
- Ledgerwood Associates, Inc – serving the states of AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, UT and WY – Ph. 480-432-423-8300, www.ledgerwoodassociatesusa.com
- Marketing Computer Service Ltd. — serving all of Eastern Canada – Ph. 416-232-9780 — www.mcscanada.com
- Realware – serving Northern California – Ph. 510-382-9045 ext 40, www.realwareinc.com
- Skyline Business Systems – serving the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii – Ph. 877-373-0717, www.sky-line.com