JOB COSTING AND PROJECTS
Job Costing is Ostendo's strength, from simple to complex job estimating and quoting, to work in progress tracking at all levels, to after job costing and actual profit reporting. 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

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- Jobs can be from simple do and charge to multiple stages within a job and each stage can be invoiced out or job can be invoiced out at a fixed price with no regards to the contents of the job
- 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)

        
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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

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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)