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Truck Management

With the Truck Management module, businesses can control costs for truck fleets and hired haulers.

The expense involved in trucking materials can add up quickly if not managed effectively. Maxwell Systems StreetSmarts Truck Management provides comprehensive control over all costs associated with truck fleets and hired haulers. This module provides the ability to calculate expense per truck for the internal fleet and generate an open payable invoice with all details for a hired hauler. Truck Management may be interfaced with other modules and details such as idle dispatch time and revenue per truck may be determined.

Using Truck Management, you’ll appreciate these benefits:

  • Daily Efficiency Report, which displays truck, revenue, driver wages and costs, may be printed for any date range. This report also calculates revenue per mile and revenue per hour for the specified period.
  • Eliminates virtually all manual ticket entry and sorting normally required for truck vendor invoice entry.
  • Internal trucks and drivers can be “rented out” to a customer. Use the system to bill the customer for the rental, along with any materials which may have been furnished.
  • The scheduling screen allows users to change any status, display a list of all available trucks, list the activity for a project, or mark any scheduled delivery as completed.
  • Truck Management interfaces with Equipment Management to match truck revenue with costs, providing the ability to analyze Profit and Loss for each internal truck.
  • When used with the Material Billing and Remote Billing modules, trucking expenses are calculated and an open payable invoice is automatically created for hired haulers to save data entry time. This invoice details each truckload, including ticket number, truck number, job, quantity, and pay rate. Optionally, open vouchers may be created in Accounts Payable for matching to a vendor-supplied invoice.
  • The Daily Timecard Entry screen allows capture of load and dump times in addition to number of loads, providing load count analysis by hauler and vendor. This screen also interfaces with Payroll to automatically create timecards for employee truckers.
  • Ability to compare cycle time between individual and groups of haulers.
  • Ability to deduct back charges from haulers either as a percentage or fixed amount, up to a user-defined maximum.
  • Automatically sends costs for internal trucks to Job Cost projects and creates the Equipment revenue transaction.
  • Hauling rates can be stored specifically by vendor with unlimited pricing flexibility.

Reports include:

  • Dispatch Inquiry
  • Daily Efficiency Report
  • Ticket Edit Report
  • Trucker’s Remit Form
  • Load Count Analysis

 
 
 
 
 
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Sigfusson Northern LTD

Sigfusson Northern LTD uses Maxwell Systems StreetSmarts as its job cost accounting and project management software solution. With StreetSmarts, SNL manages all of the accounting practices and job costs for their seven entities across the U.S. and Canada; maintain information in one place, in one format; manage payroll in-house; track and bill equipment expenses; and streamline workflow between the office and job sites.

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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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