American Contractor Modules
Purchase Orders
With the Purchase Orders module, you can streamline and maximize purchasing power.
Minimizing costs and maximizing the effectiveness of purchasing-related activities is a primary concern of project managers, purchasing agents, controllers, and service managers. Using the Purchase Orders module, your business has a robust toolset for the pricing, ordering and delivery of goods.
The same items used in estimating may be imported from a Maxwell Systems estimate by phase, area, or tracking code. Once created, the purchase order amounts are included in each job’s committed cost reporting.
Using Purchase Orders, you can:
- Easily create purchase orders by importing items from estimates or from other purchase orders. As an alternative, items may be entered individually or from your catalog.
- Stay informed with warnings that are displayed in the following circumstances: if a purchase order exceeds the budgeted amount, if an invoiced amount exceeds the purchase order amount, or if an invoice includes items not yet received.
- Stop overspending on individual job tasks with committed cost reporting of outstanding POs.
- Customize the purchase order form to suit your needs. User-defined fields and notes of unlimited length can be added to the purchase order form or to individual items.
- Take advantage of up-to-the-minute pricing for future estimates and T&M invoices. Changes to purchase order item prices automatically update the catalog.
- Enjoy full control over all purchasing-related activities through seamless integration with other American Contractor components.
- Charge costs to Jobs, Change Orders, Equipment, Inventory, Work Orders or Expense Accounts. There is no limitation to the distribution of expenses.
- Discover improved cash flow by invoicing customers as soon as purchase order items are received. Quickly and automatically create T&M Billing Items from Purchase Order Receipts.
- Keep your job on schedule by receiving items from the packing slip before the Accounts Payable invoice is received.
Reports include:
- User-definable PO form
- Outstanding POs
- Committed Costs
- Status Reports by Item, PO, Vendor, Job, Work Order, or Inventory Item

