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
Customer Service Plus
March 2, 2009 by ZZadmin123
Customer Service Plus gives your Customer Service Department the resources necessary to respond to problems quickly and provides the necessary tools to monitor all tasks to completion. It also insures customer satisfaction by enhancing the "Quality Image" of your homebuilding company by providing timely reports, and inquiries, while running on your existing Windows based computer systems.
Homeowner Lot Information
All pertinent homeowner/lot information is stored in one master record for easy access and for future reference to key data.
Walkthrough / Service Requests
All Homeowner Service Requests are entered into the system for accurate records and to ensure important homeowner problems are properly tracked.
Tracks multiple types of service calls to pinpoint quality control problems and improve customer satisfaction.
Homeowner Outstanding / Work Order Report
List all open work orders and tracks by subcontractor/service representatives for work not completed.
Prints all work orders by homeowner.
Work Orders
Prints work orders for subcontractors and service representatives. This eliminates the manual typing effort involved with work orders, which speeds up customer service response time.
Work Order Aging Report
Lists outstanding work orders by subcontractor or service representative and indicates elapsed time since issue date. This provides management with efficiency reporting.
Tracks work orders with the touch of a button, providing a quick update of every customer problem and its status.
Work Order Report
Eliminates need to maintain manual control log.
Subcontractors
Tracks subcontractor performance, through analysis of the number of call backs, work order completion, and gives you the ability to isolate problem subcontractors.
Subcontractor Reports
Subcontractor performance analysis gives you the information needed to negotiate more effectively with your subcontractors.
Service Representatives
Track work orders by service representatives.
Performance reporting by service representatives with elapsed time to completion of each work order.
Identify potential problems through analysis of Work Order Aging Report.