Manufacturing Job Cost Systems are designed for manufacturers who operate as job shops, primarily purchasing material for specific jobs, and who want to track the actual labor invested in each job. While similar to discrete manufacturers, job shops typically focus more on the specific job than on a mass-produced product.
Included in most of our job costing systems is an estimating system or engineering bill of materials. That functionality lets you use your existing material costs for the estimates and provides for copying bill structures, with costs, from similar historic jobs, greatly reducing the time required to produce quotes. The accepted quotes can then be converted to active jobs with little or no additional data entry, to further reduce your project overhead costs.
With easy-to-use interfaces, the PSSI job cost systems are comprehensive and fully-integrated to streamline your administrative workflow, giving you more time to address strategic business issues. Throughout the manufacturing cycle, costs may be rolled up and compared to the estimated material costs. By accumulating the actual project labor times and cost, you know immediately whether you are ahead of or behind the estimates and your production schedule. Not only can you manage your costs better, you will also provide better customer service by having improved visibility to the project details.
While the job shop manufacturing software may be similar to that used in mass manufacturing environments, there are some differences in the actual software configuration and usage. Getting the software properly set up for your company and industry is just one of the services PSSI provides for our manufacturing job cost clients. From the beginning of your evaluation process to the actual "turn on" of the new systems — and subsequent support — PSSI is your number one source for professional service.
