Estimating Job Cost :

In construction project, major challenge is estimating actual cost and executing plan against the cost estimated. Most of the construction works fails to estimate actual project cost at the beginning and latter project overhead increases to very high level because of different unaccounted costs.

Using online Softlean ERP system, you can define your own job categories with multiple level of sub jobs and use these job groups for estimation at any stage. Your cost will automatically reflect in over all project and also each job group either in planning, budgeting or estimation level.

You can generate your daily reports online or can monitor construction progress against your budget used vs. job performed. Using Softlean online construction ERP, you can generate monthly and yearly financial forecast of your construction project against job plan, estimation vs. actual costs. That helps you to make proper decision in advance that which jobs to be performed against which schedule and how much budget to be allocated in advance as monthly basis for entire duration of that job. It helps you to plan your funding and makes better uses your costly funds that saves you dollars against interest or mismanagement of funds.

Planning your jobs and activities using graphical Bar Chart with different color combination are one of the best construction practices during construction planning. You can plan and monitor your job progress with bar chart and the system alerts you if job has float or any discrepancy found during planning phase against your job hierarchy. Softlean Construction ERP system automatically updates your job progress online that reduces your manual updates of job status and saves your time. You can track overall job progress better than before for each job plan just by opening your project using this system.

You also get 360 degrees view of your overall construction project status against your estimation, job contracting rate vs. actual job cost. That helps you to make better management decisions to perform your construction work within your budget and timeline.