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NEW
Resource Group Totals (right) – This
gives you the ability to add another level of subtotals
at the Resource level in a Project. It helps to further
structure your estimates for transparency and for
clearer reports. |
Screenshot:
Resource Group Totals |
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NEW
Export to Excel® for job costing –
A new "Resources by Item with Used and Remaining" Export
to Excel® has been added. This includes columns where
you can enter the ‘Used’ quantity for each Resource
within an Item. Benchmark calculates the Remaining
quantity and also calculates your Actual profit per Item
and for the Project, as compared to your estimated
profit. |
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NEW
Mandatory Fields feature – You
can now choose to specify mandatory fields that must be
completed before you can 'Complete' your Project and to
capture data for your marketing analysis. This is a
great tool for organisations who wish to capture data
that will facilitate more accurate and beneficial management reporting. |
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14 NEW
Reports –
These include new Marketing/Management reports and reports for your
Estimators, Senior Estimators and field staff.
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Sample Report PDF - Items by Group by Cost
–
This report is good for a Senior
Estimator to review what has been allowed for in the estimate and to see
which
Items are the highest in cost.
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Some of the new Management report options available
(below)
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These provide excellent
data to facilitate better business decisions by management. |
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NEW
‘Show Calculations in Lists’ option (right) –
You can now choose to view your Item and Resource
calculations in a new ‘Calculation’ column. This
makes reviewing your estimates faster and easier as you
can see how your quantities have been
calculated. |
Screenshot: Show
Calculations in Lists |
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Column
widths remembered by Estimator –
You can adjust column widths in many screens, and these
widths are now remembered by Estimator. |
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Faster operation of the Spread screen
–
There have been changes to when the Spread screen will
perform its calculations to increase the speed of using
both the Spread screen and Benchmark. |
