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Working
with Benchmark’s Sub Items |
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Sub Items create an additional level within the
Benchmark structure. They are considered to be
a single resource, but in reality they are a group
of resources that are commonly used together.
Sub Item's are easier to import and edit than
resources, helping to streamline your estimating.
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Quantity Takeoff facility |
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Learn how to create and edit Quantity Takeoff
sheets, associate them with Items and use them in
your project.
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Managing
projects with Benchmark |
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The Export to Microsoft Project feature lets you
manage your project after you have submitted your
estimate and won the job. This gives you an
accurate schedule which is very useful for project
managers in particular.
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Productivity Feature |
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Using productivity rates for Benchmark Items further
enhances the accuracy of your bid, and saves time
altering the quantities of time-based resources.
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Quotation Reports |
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Learn how to create your very own customised
Quotation report templates in Microsoft Word and
export your quotes to the templates. Learn how
to run Quote with Options to quickly produce a
customised quote report the way you want it.
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Function of the Benchmark
Administration screen |
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From the
Admin screen, you can customise Benchmark to suit
your needs. Many of Benchmark's estimating
options can be turned on or off, or modified through
this one screen.
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Using
Spread to distribute your indirect costs against direct
costs |
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Further delve into the Spread functionalities.
Adjusting the spread of overheads and profits by is
a further way to tweak your estimates for more
competitive bidding. You are able to enter
specific prices rates, or percentage margins for
items, or choose to mark items as 'not spread'.
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Supplier Manager |
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Supplier Manager grants Benchmark users the ability
to issue schedules to sub contractors, compare their
returned prices, and choose a subcontractor for a
job all within the one section of Benchmark.
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Supplier Percentage Discount |
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Allows you to allocate a % discount from particular
suppliers, which saves you time and ensures your
entire estimate is based on accurate prices.
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Cartage |
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Learn how to use the cartage function in your
estimate to save you time, as your cartage is
automatically calculated for you.
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Follow up Functionality |
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Follow Up will help you stay on top of your
estimating. Follow-Up provides reminders to
ensure you don't miss any current or potential
opportunities, and stores your history of contact
with a client. This feature is designed to
keep all the aspects of estimating a project within
the Benchmark program.
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Market Analysis |
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Market Analysis outlines a wide range of key market
data. For each project you can see whether it
was won or lost, when it was won, and if you did not
win, who did win and what was their price. You
can also outline a reason for loss, and track
results for each individual estimator, so it acts as
a control and evaluation system.
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Links to other software via ODBC |
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With this functionality your can get information out
of your data file and into a different source.
You can import data that you want out of your
Benchmark data file into a spreadsheet program like
Microsoft Excel.
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Resource Production Rates |
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Resource Production Rates are allocated to groups of
resources that share a production rate. This
is done at the resource level, whereas the
Productivity Feature discussed above works at the
Item level. This feature is useful where Items
contain more than one group of resources that have
differing production rates.
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... and much more |
