Plant, Material Sales and Trucking

Material ticket information, coming from leading scale-ticketing systems, is updated and available in the Job Cost module on a daily basis.

Quote Tracking (materials & haul)
Quoted prices for materials and haul are stored in the Viewpoint Material Sales module. Tickets are uploaded, processed and priced providing instant feedback in the Job Cost module.

Scale Ticket Interface
Viewpoint offers a flexible ticket import system. Ticket output, coming from leading scale ticketing systems, may be mapped to corresponding fields in Viewpoint, uploaded, approved, and processed, without any manual entry.

Immediate Job Cost
Daily cost of materials is available in the Job Cost reporting systems.

  • Pricing, Quotes & Orders
  • Trucking Revenue & Cost
  • Job Cost
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Imports

Pricing, Quotes and Orders

Pricing of products and transportation are based on flexible, user-controlled templates, and/or quotes.

Pricing & Discount Templates
Templates maintain material prices and payment discounts, and may be assigned to customers, customer jobs, in-house jobs or inventory locations.

Quotes
Quotes can work together with templates, or independently. Quotes incorporate pricing and hauling information for customers, customer jobs, in-house construction jobs and inventory locations.

Orders
Acceptance of a quote automatically allocates inventory to that customer/job, records sales against orders, and provides information for backlog analysis.

Trucking Revenue and Cost

Handles the cost and revenue for transporting materials to customers, jobs and inventory locations.

Flexible Pricing System
Haul charges may be assigned using a variety of methods (per unit, per hour, per load, etc.).

Profitability Analysis
System allows charges to the job or customer using one method, and payment to the hauler using another method.

Owned Equipment and Third Party Trucking
Haul charges from tickets and time sheets update revenue to owned equipment, and open payables for independent truckers.

Job Cost

Integration of Material Sales with Job Cost provides up-to-date cost and quantity reporting. Powerful Job Cost capabilities are applied to Plant/Production operations for production and profitability analysis.

Timely, Accurate Job Cost
Tickets processed for in-house jobs immediately update costs and quantities in Job Cost. Pricing of materials can be based on templates or quotes assigned to jobs.

Plant/Production Analysis
Linking of Inventory/Plant locations to Job Cost system captures labor, material, equipment and other expenses for Plant Summary report of units, revenues and costs.

Inter-company Processing
The system handles inter-company sales to jobs that can be invoiced and automatically set up as cross-company payables, or handled as direct GL journal entries.

Accounts Receivable integration

Material Sales’ integration with Accounts Receivable provides an efficient system for managing customer sales, receivables, credit and collections.

Materials & Trucking
Material sales and transportation charges to customers are summarized from ticket detail to create invoices and update Accounts Receivable.

Flexible Invoicing
Invoicing levels and processing frequency may be controlled at the customer and customer-job level.

Time Critical Information
Timely updates provide critical information needed for sales analysis and credit decisions.

Imports

Leading Scale Ticketing and Load-out systems provide standard export files that can be mapped into Viewpoint templates and files. For systems that can import and use the data, Viewpoint can provide updated quotes, orders, credit and customer information for subsequent transaction processing.

Scale Ticketing and Load-Out systems
Templates are configurable for most systems, including Libra, BMG Seltec, JWS, Cardinal, Command Alkon and many others.

Ticket Transaction Detail
Full transaction detail may be imported, including ticket number, material code, customer and/or job, quantity, unit of measure, trucking time/charges, etc.

Data Imports from Viewpoint
Some systems can import and utilize updated customer data, quotes, orders, etc. Industry-standard query tools can access the appropriate data in Viewpoint for subsequent transaction processing.