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JOB COSTING AND PROJECTS
Ostendo software for Job Costing and Projects includes :-
Integration with MYOB and Quickbooks
Job Quoting
Job Orders
Job Costing
Job Profit Reporting
Job Scheduling
Supplier Catalogues
in depth Inventory
Pricing
Purchasing
Serial, Batch and Warranty Tracking
Barcodes
Customer Relations Management
Ostendo brochure (click to open)
Online Demo for Australian businesses
Contact us now on 1300 814 268 to have one of our Ostendo consultants arrange a live demonstration via the internet using GoToMeeting.
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Job Costing and Projects
- Job costing is Ostendo's strength, from job estimating/quoting, to work in progress tracking at all levels, to after job costing and actual job profit reporting
- Cost methods include standard, average, actual, last, buy price, or calculated cost
- Costs are used in the jobs and projects to provide detailed and accurate budgeted planned, actual and projected costs at the various task, job, and project hierarchy levels
- Real time work in progress and time and cost completion percentage are included at all levels
- Can also use the planned/projected costs based on progress claim percentage to project job profitability
- Progress claims and retention tracking can be done by job and consolidated invoicing by project
- Graphical job calendar by task/resource will assist you with scheduling.
job order (click to enlarge) 
job value (click to enlarge) 
job calendar (click to enlarge) 
project (click to enlarge) 
Inventory and Purchasing
- Multiple warehouses and locations
- Allows for negative stocks or prohibit negative stocks for specific items
- Multiple units of measure
- Serial number, batch or lot number, expiry dates and grades
- Barcodes
- Colour and size
- Unlimited user definable properties
- 16 additional fields (text, numeric, date, integer, yes/no, decimal, currency)
- Item code can be 50 characters
- Description can be 100 characters
- Notes, images, documents, history and warranties can be linked to an item along with revision level
- Stock takes can be organised by warehouse, location or by product or category
- Location transfers
- Unlimited supplier catalogues can be imported
- Comprehensive pricing levels, 5 quantity breaks for each pricing level, discounts
- Full cost tracking and cost change logging
- Complementary add-on sales can be defined against the inventory item for prompting at sales order entry
- Projected inventory availability enquiry screen and inventory forecasting
- Automated inventory replenishment MRP functionality (re-order quantity, re-order level, order multiple, lead time) based on supply, demand, forecast and inventory re-order policy.
- Mass global replacement facility is included for substituting items and alternative items option from the preferred supplier or list of approved suppliers with part number cross-reference and pricing information
- Purchase directly for stock, jobs, assembly orders or cost centres
- Track drop-shipments directly to your customer's address or subcontractors address with an optional purchase order approval control process.
- 3 purchasing processing methods are (i) Purchase Order – Receipt – Supplier Invoice (ii) Purchase Order – Supplier Invoice (iii) Supplier Invoice
LANDED COSTINGS
- able to define currency code against supplier. In order to match MYOB Premier able to have only one currency per supplier
- new screen for recording purchase shipments (local or offshore)
- able to link purchase orders from different suppliers and currencies into a single shipment
- able to add up to 6 additional charges to that shipment with each charge individually allocated to all shipment lines by weight,volume, cost, quantity or duty percent. Each charge can have its own currency
- shipment can be tracked via tracking codes, estimated and actual arrival dates, departure and arrival ports etc
CRM and Quoting
- Manage every aspect of your customer relationship
- From prospect to customer, quote, job and order tracking, invoice and payment history to activity log for emails, calls, meetings, etc.
- Customer database tracks multiple contacts and delivery addresses, head office billing information, job and invoicing requirements
- Integrated call centre management system gathers date and time stamped customer calls and initiates resource activities to monitor and progress the customer call through to its conclusion.
- Add the frequently asked questions to your business knowledge base
- Complete call history and quote history is maintained including conversions to actual orders
- Quotes can be converted into sales orders or jobs at any time
- Quotes can be prepared for products and services, made to order custom products and services through to complex labour, materials and sub-contracted jobs and projects
- Special pricing rules can be automatically applied to quotes according to customer type and other pre-defined criteria
call centre (click to enlarge) 
Pricing
- Extensive pricing matrix with easy updates
- Sales kit sets
- Configuring items on the fly for custom products or services
- Current and projected stock availability
- Alternate item option
- Add-on sales option by item
- All warranty information follows the item through the sales process
item pricing (click to enlarge) 
Labour and Job Tracking
- Labour tracking incorporates a work time profile for the business
- Varying labour charge out rates by customer
- Different employee actual labour costs linked to one labour code
- Employee timesheets and tracking labour percentage complete against a task, job or project showing planned and actual labour to date and projected labour time remaining
- Track your labour resources on the graphical job planning calendar
- Drag and drop scheduling tool provides you with instant visibility of your resources and tasks including labour resources allocated to warranty work.
timesheet (click to enlarge) 
Warranty Tracking
Warranty tracking commences at the time of product or service sale and continues through its lifecycle, recording all service, maintenance, and repair activities
- Includes manufacturers' warranties and extended warranties that you have sold to the customer
warranty (click to enlarge) 
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