Projects and Contracts

 

Objective

 

To facilitate accurate profit reporting for long-term projects that require the analysis of costs and revenues at each section or level within the contract or project.

 

The Value of Projects and Contracts

 

• Highlight profitable areas within a job
• Identify profitable jobs within a contract
• Compare real-time, actual, and committed costs assigned to a job
• Show real-time, realized, and projected profits
• Perform comprehensive reporting for jobs and/or contracts that extend over a period of time
• Drill-down to transaction detail with job query
• Query jobs in terms of sales, billings, cost of sales and future expected costs
• Maintain standard hierarchies
• Analyze at job or contract level
• Create deposits, retentions and billing schedule based on different criteria

Matching Projects and Contracts to your business

 

• Assign multiple jobs to a contract for tracking purposes
• Estimate cost and revenue by levels or section within a contract
• Define costing levels within a contract
• Assign unlimited numbers of heads to a contract
• Assign unlimited numbers of sections and subsections to a head
• Describe the costing hierarchy at the time of creating the job or estimate
• Reduce processing time by recalling standard costing hierarchies for similar items
• Attach purchase order lines to the relevant hierarchy level
• Associate material labor transactions with the relevant hierarchy level
• Recognize revenue through Sales Orders based on the costing hierarchy
• Adjust billing values between heads and sections
• Base flexible billing on contract or job hierarchy
• Apply deposit against first, last, or any progress payments
• Reduce final invoice by retention value
• Raise retention invoice after specified term

Product Configurator g

 

Objective

 

To facilitate rapid order configuration by non-technical people in SYSPRO Sales Orders and Quotations modules.

 

The Value of Product Configurator

• Ensure viable products with rules-based configurations
• Improve order entry by being able to configure complex products on the fly
• Provide an option to configure a standard inventory item
• Maintain a library of common configurations to easily recall repeat orders
• Calculate configurations based on the dimensions selected

Matching Product Configurator to your business

• Ideal for engineer-to-order and configure-to-order environments
• Define selection criteria to determine the number of options presented for configuration
• Store and recall commonly used configurations
• Selection criteria can be optional or mandatory
• Selections may be dependent on other selections
• Generate labor requirements based on configuration options
• Develop component dependencies based on options
• Create availability of critical items before processing
• Prevent premature use with under development indicator
• Optionally create a new inventory part and BOM from configured selections
• Optionally generate custom work order and linked sales order
• Drive demand through production by generating sales orders for standard parts
• Print selections on order documents
• Links the options to stock codes and operations
• Option to generate non-stocked items or kit types
• Generate intelligent part number based on selections
• Base costs on bill of material or inventory cost