To answer that crucial question you need a Job cost report. Compiling that is typically a long-winded process with a paper based system.
Paperwork has to be collected and checked: works orders, time sheets, stock reports... The information needs to be entered into the in house system and reports created. All this takes time.
Imagine if you could check exactly how much a job cost - just minutes after it was completed?
Saving time and money with Connect Jobcosting
Connect will automatically include all job costing information when a job is processed by an operative in Connect Mobile. Within minutes of the job being completed, the information will be visible in Connect Manager, ready for reporting.
The report compares the predicted cost of a job with the actual costs based on the information from the field, clearly showing if a job is over - or under budget.
Job costing is then a doddle. Quickly and easily work out which jobs are profitable and which are not- an essential bit of information when re-negotiating contracts.
Major benefits of our system
- Quickly and easily check profitability.
- Renegotiate contracts with confidence; you know how much it cost you.
- Review performance and pay.
- See how much materials and parts actually cost your organisation.
- Save time; instant reporting without all the paperwork
Easy to set up
.To run job costing, Connect needs the following information:
- How much do you pay your teams per hour?
- What is your predicted cost of a job?
- What is the cost of the parts or materials?
Setting up Labour rates
Not all operatives are paid the same. Connect can apply a single hourly rate for all the operatives - or varying rates for different teams. Onsite time and travel time can be separated out - also paid at different rates.
Once the rates have been set up it is easy to link it with the right operatives. If you update your labour rates on a regular basis, don't worry! Connect will automatically upgrade all labour rates for all teams, when you make a change.
What is the predicted cost of a job?
Most organisations work with some sort of codes to identify different jobs. These can be fault codes, SORs etc and are usually associated with a cost; either a fixed cost or an estimate in minutes.
Once these codes are imported into Connect, they can easily be managed through Connect Tasks and available for job costing reports.
In most cases these costs have not been analysed recently, but is based on historic data. Connect will enable you to build up a knowledge base where you can drill down and evaluate how much time is actually spent on different faults in 2010. This will lead to more accurate job costing.
Parts or materials?
Fixed materials costs can be associated directly with a job code or if you maintain your stock system through Connect, parts can be individually priced.In the job cost report you are able to separate out the cost of materials or include them in the total cost of the job.
Export your reports
Create pie charts and easy to use reports in Excel for governance
Some of the things our system can work out:
- Did we have to visit more than once?
For multiple visits for the same job, clearly see how much money it has cost you and why. Parts may be missing, customer was not on site or the job may have been wrongly reported in the first case. By monitoring these situations you can quickly find inefficiencies in yours and other's systems and fix them, before they become a cost burden. - Handling varying labour rates
Your team may have different skills and therefore be paid differently, are you making the best of your resources? - Do we actually know how long a job should take
Calculations of job times are very often based on old estimates and historic data. It's too cumbersome to try to work out if that fault really takes two hours. Now you can dig deeper and see how long - on average - a job should really take.
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