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Material Handling

With the Material Handling module, businesses can control costs and streamline handling of materials.

Material Handling is designed for producers of asphalt, quarry products, and similar materials. Contractors may account for materials as follows:

  • Materials produced by company-owned plants or purchased from vendors
  • Materials delivered by company trucks, customer trucks, or outside haulers
  • Materials used on internal jobs or delivered to customers

This module is fully integrated with General Ledger and Accounts Receivable, providing control over production and hauling costs to maximize profits.

Using Material Handling, you’ll appreciate these benefits:

  • Track an unlimited number of company-owned and vendor-owned plants/ quarries, trucks and drivers.
  • Each item of material is assigned an ID, category, description, unit of measure, unit cost, unit list price, and various taxation/royalty indicators. Composite items include a mix formula of component items for accurate costing and tracking of raw material inventories.
  • For increased efficiency, haul charges may be computed automatically based on established rates or entered manually per load.
  • Materials produced and consumed in-house automatically update Job Costing and material usage records. For materials sold to customers, invoices are printed (consolidating tickets by date, customer, or PO number as desired); Accounts Receivable and material usage records are updated.
  • All Material Handling data is ODBC compatible, allowing the use of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, etc.) or any other ODBC-compliant product to produce custom reports, analyses, graphs, or other documents.
  • A “price class” table saves time by automating special customer pricing for designated items based on bids for specific projects, contracts, municipal work, volume purchases, and more.
  • The remote entry module captures sales ticket data at remote plants for transmission to headquarters for billing and analysis. Material Ticket Processing allows remote entry of material tickets with the ability to export to the main system for invoice processing.
  • Delivery tickets from outside producers may be entered at job sites, automatically updating “committed cost” for the job and creating purchasing records for reconciliation of subsequent vendor material invoices.
  • Material Handling helps contractors stay in compliance. Special tonnage codes and reports accommodate the reporting requirements of various jurisdictions for permit, license, and tax purposes.
  • Sales and other tax calculations are performed automatically and update comprehensive sales/use tax reports by jurisdiction. Management reports include a wide variety of raw material usage and material sales recaps.
  • Gather customized information without the need for custom programming. Twenty user-defined fields allow users to track additional information for each customer, including permit numbers, type of work normally performed, field superintendent names, and more.

Reports include:

  • Liquid Binder Report
  • Material by Job & Plant Reports
  • Monthly Recap Report
  • Monthly Tonnage Report
  • Raw Material Usage Report

 
 
 
 
 
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Maxwell Systems provides construction software solutions that help contractors to streamline workflow, increase productivity, and improve profitability. Furthermore, we understand that today's contractors must optimize processes across all business areas to gain or maintain an increasingly important competitive edge and ensure a successful business. Critical, to that end, is timely and efficient communication and information access among estimating, job cost accounting, and project management teams.

By using a Maxwell Systems complete construction software solution, you'll be able to better operate your business with increased efficiency and streamlined operations, and confidently increase profitability on every project. You will have the tools you need to accomplish more in less time; taking the guesswork out of reaching true profit potential; and improving financial stability for long-term benefit.

Why Maxwell Systems?

Maxwell Systems is truly unique with its ability to offer contractors a complete, seamless software solution that allows:

  • A new level of continuity and productivity among estimating, job cost accounting, and project management
  • Better insight, analysis, and financial oversight for owners to make informed and timely decisions
  • Improved operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and increased profits

Contractors value having an end-to-end solution from one company:

  • All applications work together seamlessly
  • Efficient access to comprehensive support and services
  • A stable technology partner committed to customer success

How Your Business Benefits

A complete construction software solution from Maxwell Systems provides end-to-end control of your business so you can see a day's profit potential at a glance, identify and prevent potential financial losses, spot discrepancies and errors, and manage projects with accurate information in real-time.

With tailored features designed to fit each member on your team, construction company management software ultimately allows your business to:

  • Attain end-to-end control and increased visibility
  • Achieve easy and accurate reporting with real-time data
  • Optimize project execution for maximum profitability
  • Streamline operations with seamless workflow

The Bid-to-Cash Cycle Explained

Managing each of the key process areas of a construction business – Estimating, Construction Accounting, and Project Management – requires vastly different talents and areas of expertise. The reality is that each of these functional groups is related and dependent on one another.

For your organization to run in an optimal fashion, the groups much work together in an optimal fashion. Together, these functional areas compromise what we describe as the Bid-to-Cash Cycle. And our goal at Maxwell Systems is to provide software for construction so you can bridge the needs of the functional groups, better manage this cycle, and so maximize profitability.

When construction estimating software, construction accounting software, and construction project management software are working together in a seamless system as a complete construction business management software solution, then a contractor is truly poised for optimal profit and productivity.

How does a complete solution fit your part of the cycle? Here are a few examples:

  • Owner: It's all about reducing waste, uncovering lost opportunity, exposing shortcomings, and maximizing resources – all which impact profit and the bottom line. With end-to-end visibility of every project, executives can hone business strategy, improve control of cash flow, and keep financials in the black with accurate ROI.
  • Estimator: Beyond estimating projects, the estimator can access more accurate information in regards to how the project actually performs. This will allow the estimator to improve accuracy on future estimates with actual labor and production rates, updated material prices, and other resource related items.
  • Accounting: Not only a company's construction accounting system, a complete solution helps to streamline the procurement processes for optimal efficiencies and produces more accurate purchasing processes. Additionally, billing processes, inventory issuances, and many other processes are streamlined. Less data entry, better accuracy, and reliable audit trail allow convenience and peace of mind.
  • Project Manager: The seamless workflow from Estimating to Project Tracking allows for a streamlined method of creating the job and then tracking performance against the estimate. Within the complete solution, the construction project management programs also provide the detail required for the Project Manager to understand what the Estimator was thinking when the bid was put together. Plus, by accessing real-time information whether in the office or in the field, the project manager can track progress, be more agile, and better handle all aspects of jobs from beginning to end.

Bottom Line

To succeed in today's competitive marketplace, construction business owners must improve productivity and have end-to-end visibility to see how jobs perform (and turn profit) from start to finish. Maxwell Systems knows construction company software and can be your partner by offering truly unique products (as well as support and services) that address the entire construction project lifecycle – from digital takeoff through final cash payment. Our seamless system provides your company with all the capabilities you need for estimating, job cost accounting, and project management, and ultimately for superior insight and analysis of your business.

Imagine the flexibility and insight by having one solution for estimating projects, for construction accounting programs, and for construction project software! All that and more in one system will help your business be more competitive and profitable.

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