StreetSmarts Modules
Purchasing
With the Purchasing module, businesses can maximize purchasing power.
To be successful, construction industry professionals must make the most of purchasing power by tracking total dollar amounts committed to jobs as they occur. Maxwell Systems StreetSmarts Purchasing provides a range of controls to monitor and expedite purchase orders and to bring cost overruns to light as orders are placed. Efficient control over vendor invoicing keeps projects within budget and on schedule.
Using Purchasing, you’ll appreciate these benefits:
- Purchase Order routing and approval helps contractors expedite the requisition process.
- Online inquiry of purchase order history and detail can be viewed by vendor or project.
- Purchase order numbers can be reserved and the detail can be entered later for instances where all items required may not be immediately known.
- Purchase orders allocated to Job Cost are posted as a committed cost.
- Purchase orders can be automatically created through an interface with third-party estimating software.
- Purchase orders can be closed and reopened as necessary. Closing a purchase order relieves the commitments in Job Cost of any remaining unused quantities and dollars.
- Receiving can be mandatory, voluntary, or deactivated with user-defined price variance percentages. This allows you to set the desired level of control.
- StreetSmarts Purchasing can validate purchase order items for quantity and price variances. Choose validation with no deviation allowed, validation with warnings on deviation, or no validation.
- When used in conjunction with Equipment Inventory, purchase orders can be automatically created when item stocks drop to user-defined levels.
- Unlimited cost allocation can be defined for any Job Cost project, equipment piece, inventory item, or material plant during purchase order creation. These allocations are used as defaults during invoice entry, which eliminates coding errors and speeds data entry.
- Costs are immediately reflected in the receiving module such as Job Cost upon receiving the material.
- Define a Bill of Material List by Project, and track quotes from multiple vendors for each material. Upon creating a purchase order, select the required materials and automatically transfer them to a purchase order.
Reports include:
- Back Order Report
- Project/Supplier Report
- Supplier Listings
- Purchase Order Inquiry

