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Alphasoft Application Overview - Estimating

Alphasoft
Financial and management information solutions

Advantages
  • From large scale projects to small jobs the ability to build and maintain a detailed estimate is important to many organisations.
  • Alphasoft estimating provides global manipulation and flexible analysis of estimates through to acceptance and the raising and monitoring of purchase orders. From small companies to large groups Alphasoft estimating has been selected as a flexible yet robust part of a fully integrated systems solution.

    • Options
  • Estimates may be posted to the job costing module in summary or detail.
  • Purchase orders may be automatically printed or posted to a full purchase order processing module. Sales invoices may be posted to the sales ledger and customers, suppliers and cost headers are all maintained by the relevant Alphasoft modules.
  • Analysis is by a comprehensive set of supplied reports or via a full user definable report writer.

    • Main features
  • Detailed estimates to sub-assembly level
  • Discreet estimates and global parts file
  • Update parts file when estimating
  • Grouped by area, supplier and cost heading
  • Multiple lines of narrative for each item
  • Cost, mark-up and selling price with global changes
  • Block copy, delete, cut and paste options
  • Full search and browse facilities throughout
  • Automatic new supplier, area and cost header adding from estimate Working analysis by multiple criteria
  • Client copy analysis by multiple criteria

    • Alphasoft Estimating - Checklist
    General
  • Multi-company
  • Multi-user
  • Multi-tasking option
  • Full security system
  • User definable report writer
  • Automatic error detection and recovery
  • Facility to add or change records 'on the fly'
  • On-line help and desktop calculator

    • Jobs
  • Full job file maintenance
  • Automatic new job number generation
  • Searching and browsing by number with wildcards
  • Link to customer in sales ledger
  • Allocation of manager responsible
  • Job status - estimate, live, finished etc.
  • Retention details
  • Sub division by area

    • Estimates
  • Spreadsheet like data entry
  • Area, line number, assembly number
  • Part number, supplier, cost, mark-up and selling price
  • Global and block facilities - copy, change, delete, cut, paste, renumber Global cost, mark-up or price change
  • Comment lines
  • Item status - Accepted, ordered, delivered etc.

    • Analysis and reports
  • Draft, working analysis by any criteria - summary or detailed
  • Client copy report by any criteria - summary or detailed
  • Purchase order analysis
  • Purchase orders – printed direct or via interface with Purchase order processing.

    • Integrated options
  • Sales ledger
  • Sales order processing
  • Purchase ledger
  • Purchaser order processing
  • Job costing
  • Stock control
  • Output to 'open' formats: ASSCI, DIF, CSV file formats
  • Integration with Microsoft 'desktop tools' Excel, Access, SQL
  • E-Mail output option


    • Notice
    The processes and all the routines contained herein are proprietary properties and trade secrets. Except as provided by license agreement, this code and documentation shall not be duplicated used or disclosed for any purpose or reason, in whole or in part, without the express written consent of The Alphasoft Consultancy Limited.
    This document is copyright of The Alphasoft Consultancy Limited.
    For more information contact Alphasoft on 020 7384 4980, fax: 020 7384 4989