In-Depth Overview

Materials Management works with a variety of scale software packages. More infoWeight tickets are read automatically from existing scale software. Extensive error correction ensures that data is transferred accurately. Plant and Pit profitability can be reported, based on actual cost. Quantity production, sales and costs for current year, previous year and User-Defined periods can be used for comparison.

Manual weight ticket entry screen is available for plants not currently using an automatic scale software package. Standard product mixes can be set up for accurate costing and also overridden per batch. Tickets can create outside sales invoices or internal job requisitions, based on the customer and job. Freight and miscellaneous costs can be tracked separately, or can be billed as a service or accumulated into the material sale amount. Actual freight costs can be reconciled to the estimated cost and the freight invoice created automatically in Accounts Payable.

Hauler rates can be set up to use either standard or special rates. More info Actual material costs from outside suppliers can be reconciled against the accrued cost and the supplier's invoice can be assessed automatically in Accounts Payable. Area codes can be set up to price materials based on how far they are to be hauled. Customer contract file allows special pricing overrides for selected customers. Truck cycle information is easily tracked by truck for each plant/job site. Materials Management is integrated with Job Cost, Order Processing, Inventory Control, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Document Imaging.

The inter-company G/L account code entered on the Inventory Control Installation screen is used as the G/L credit account. More info The Materials Management Installation > Company code for job cost field setting is used to determine the company ID for the job number entered in the Scale Ticket Import and Scale Ticket Transactions screens. If the job is not found in this file, the Materials Management Installation company code will be used; if this field is also blank, the current company ID is used.