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Estimating your direct costs using existing
Libraries |
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Your existing libraries include your Item and
Resource Libraries.
Quickly and easily bring your existing library items
and resources into new quotes to estimate very
efficiently.
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Managing your Client Library |
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All of your clients details are stored in a central
location, from where you can add new clients or edit
existing clients details.
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Creating and duplicating your
Items and
Resources |
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Creating items and resources allows full
customisation of your libraries to suit your individual needs.
Duplicating items and resources that you create saves you hours re-entering data in
future estimates.
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Setting up and modifying
Libraries |
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Your libraries hold all your data. Knowing how
to properly set up and modify your libraries is key
to getting the optimum efficiency out of your
estimating.
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Indirect costs
such as supervision
allowances and other on-costs |
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Indirect costs can be added into Benchmark, allowing
greater flexibility and accuracy in estimating and
reporting.
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Spread
Screen |
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The Spread Screen feature allows you to choose the
amount of profit that will be applied to each
individual item that is included in your estimate.
This is a very useful tool to refine and optimise
your bid.
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How to run Routines |
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Running
Routines will optimise your standard estimating
procedures. Routines are typically used for
repetitive tasks where only the quantities change.
They are extremely fast and accurate as they are
based on your established resource prices. |
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Importing your
Clients' Schedule |
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This
allows users to import all items of a clients
schedule into Benchmark so you can price the job
quickly and easily. |
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Auto Allocating Items and Resources |
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After importing your clients schedule as above, some
item descriptions in the clients schedule will match
exactly to item descriptions in your libraries.
In this case you can select Auto Allocate and it
will bring your items into the tender automatically.
This is especially useful if you deal with the same
clients who use the same item descriptions.
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Producing Progress Claims |
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Progress
Claims help you get paid for work you have completed
on a project. Learn how to create, export to
Excel and produce reports on your Progress Claims. |
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Standard and Project Specific Conditions |
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Nominating
conditions on which your price is based can make the
difference between profit to you and costs to you.
Learn how to create and use Standard and Project
Specific Conditions in your quotes. |
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