Optimize Division 8 and fenestration projects with contractERP capabilities

contractERP’s Change Order management ensures seamless handling of contract modifications, allowing for efficient updates, accurate tracking, and smooth processing of material and contract amount changes.

This feature minimizes disruptions and maintains project continuity.

• Efficient change order updates: Quickly review and update change orders in contractERP, ensuring all necessary details, such as customer PO numbers and billing methods, are accurately recorded.
• Streamlined material management: Easily manage new, existing, and returned materials by processing replacements, and handling sales returns and managing boneyard/surplus inventory without disruption to the project.

contractERP’s AIA Billing feature simplifies the complex process of generating and managing AIA billing for contracts, ensuring accurate invoicing and smooth financial management.

This capability helps you stay on top of project billing while maintaining compliance with industry standards.

• Automated AIA billing generation: Generate AIA documents based on various billing methods directly within contractERP.
• Seamless retainage management: Track retainage withheld throughout the contract and release retainage amounts before  invoicing, ensuring all payments are accounted for.

contractERP’s Scheduling capability enhances project management by allowing you to organize and manage the construction schedule efficiently.

By linking items to specific dates, you can streamline billing, scheduling, and overall contract management, ensuring your projects stay on track.

• Streamlined project tracking: Use material date requirements to filter and organize schedules, simplifying the review and management of items in process and ensuring all elements are accounted for.
• Phase-based scheduling: Segregate your project as needed to enable precise management of materials and tasks throughout different stages of construction.

contractERP’s Material Management functionality will help you optimize inventory management, ensure precise material tracking, and efficiently handle job-specific materials, ultimately improving warehouse operations and reducing errors.

With powerful tools for real-time updates and seamless integration, you can maintain optimal inventory levels and reduce discrepancies.

• Cycle counting and full inventory: Flexibly manage both cycle counts and full inventory checks, improving accuracy and reducing stock discrepancies.

• Material tracking: Easily identify all material by generating labels for all material at receiving to shop orders to fulfillment. Optionally, add industry specific identifiers on the labels, such as opening, mark, and geo location.  

• Job-specific material tracking: Streamline the management of material purchased for a job and no longer needed for that job. Identify what to do with the material to make it available for reuse, return, dispose or reuse on another job with easy classification of the material. 

contractERP’s Warehouse Management Mobile App enhances your warehouse operations, offering convenient control and visibility from your handheld device.

Manage inventory, receiving, picking, and shipping efficiently into contractERP.

• Real-time inventory management: Track and manage inventory, locations, and movements directly from your mobile device, ensuring up-to-date information and reducing errors.
• Improve efficiency and accuracy: Scan material to reduce errors and minimizing the need for manual data entry. 

contractERP’s Shop Orders feature streamlines the management of production orders, providing a clear and organized view of all active shop orders. This capability helps ensure that production stays on schedule and meets delivery deadlines.

• Comprehensive order tracking: Easily monitor the status of all open shop orders with predefined filters, allowing you to quickly identify orders that need attention.
• Simplified order management: Use the Shop Order Status screen to view and manage orders, including details like shipping status, due dates, and quantities remaining, all in one place.
• Efficient task execution: Access additional tasks directly from the ribbon, such as printing shop orders or labels, material adjustments to keep your production process running smoothly.

contractERP’s Pre-Installed Material feature enhances production efficiency by allowing you to manage internal painting, installation of hardware on interior finished doors or other value-added services, ensuring that items are prepared and ready for installation or shipment.

• Customizable settings: Set up services and define types by product group, allowing for precise control over how materials are prepared and delivered.
• Streamlined material handling: Choose whether materials are installed or shipped loose with the main items, ensuring that all components are ready for quick and efficient assembly or installation on-site.
• Optimized setup and cost management: Assign planned installation times and costs by product group, enabling better resource planning and accurate costing for pre-installed materials.

contractERP’s Production Scheduling feature ensures that your production process is optimized and aligned with project timelines. By dynamically managing resources and capacity, it helps you meet deadlines and maintain efficient production workflows.

• Capacity-based scheduling: Utilize contractERP's capacity planning tools to schedule production based on available resources, including labor and equipment, ensuring that all operations are efficiently planned and executed.
• Dynamic scheduling: Automatically schedule work and production by breaking down tasks into capacity groups, allowing for continuous adjustment and optimization of production timelines.
• Subassembly coordination: Effectively manage the scheduling of component subassemblies by aligning them with the parent assembly's start date, ensuring that all parts are ready when needed, and minimizing production delays.

contractERP’s Delivery Scheduling feature offers a flexible and intuitive way to manage and optimize shipment logistics.

With real-time visibility and easy drag-and-drop functionality, you can efficiently plan, adjust, and monitor deliveries to ensure timely and accurate fulfillment.

• Interactive delivery board: Visualize and adjust your delivery plans by dragging lines to new dates, managing schedules by groups and zones, and ensuring that all deliveries are optimized.
• Route optimization with Bing Maps: Automatically sequence delivery routes using integrated Bing Maps, ensuring efficient use of time and resources while meeting customer delivery expectations.
• Customizable delivery settings: Fine-tune your delivery schedules with filters for delivery groups and zones, associate a truck type to truck number and assign the driver, and generate shipping paperwork to be printed or sent electronically.

Leverage the power of Microsoft Business Central within contractERP to handle all your accounting needs, from managing receivables and payables to comprehensive general ledger oversight.

Tailored for the construction material supply industry, contractERP automates complex processes, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in financial management.

• Flexible billing models: Handle the various ways construction projects are billed including single/multi-phase and percent complete. AIA presentation for each model contains a schedule of values and AIA generation. 
• Automated invoice processing:  Capture your sales revenue quicker with automated invoice generation nightly based on what was shipped throughout the day. 
• Efficient financial workflows: Automate processes like consolidated invoicing and non-standard inventory cost tracking, streamlining your operations and improving financial oversight.

contractERP’s KPI Reporting and Dashboards provide real-time visibility into your business's financial health, enabling you to make informed decisions with confidence.

Customizable dashboards deliver key insights, helping you track performance and optimize business strategies.

• Job costing analysis: Identify slippage and take action with access into contract statistics and reports to see projected costs vs actual cost throughout the life of the contract. 
• Real-time financial insights: Access up-to-date financial data and reports that help you monitor cash flow, profitability, and other critical business indicators.
• Customizable KPI dashboards: Tailor your dashboards to display the metrics that matter most to your business, providing a clear and concise view of your financial performance.

contractERP’s Estimating/Detailing API enables seamless integration with leading commercial door, hardware, and window detailing software.

This data exchange ensures that once an estimate is accepted in the detailing software, all necessary job information is sent into cERP, eliminating the need for dual entry creating a unified workflow. 

• Seamless data synchronization: Keep estimating and detailing data in sync across all platforms, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
• Bidirectional integration: Reflect changes made in contractERP instantly within certain detailing applications, maintaining consistency across your operations. Supported integrations: ePWS, Titan, and Soft Tech V6.
• Robust software compatibility: Integrate effortlessly with industry-leading software such as Emullion ePWS, Protech, Titan, Software 4 Hardware, TOAD, Avaware, and Soft Tech V6.

contractERP supports a variety of pricing methods and models, allowing for flexible and accurate pricing strategies.

Whether you’re applying discounts, markups, or group-specific pricing, contractERP ensures that your costing methods align with your business needs.

• Flexible pricing models: Support for list pricing, discount from list, markup from cost, and more, catering to diverse business requirements.
• Tiered pricing rules: Account for the sales team and customer commitments to solve for special pricing, group discounts, and other tailored pricing strategies. 
• Specify markup cost: When utilizing mark-up from cost, decide between methods that will best reflect the variable market with tight competition and ensure consistent margins.