Landscape Operations

Estimating and Proposal Generation

Produce fast, accurate and consistent estimates that give you the control you need to increase revenue. With SLICE you can:

• Enter or update items on an estimate
• Vary the labor rate, crew makeup, overhead markup and profit percentage
• Automatically calculate labor, plant and material costs, crew and equipment hours, overhead and gross profit amounts
• Automatically calculate other materials such as backfill and mulch, based on your specs
• Generate professional proposals automatically from the bid
• Add complete description of plant material and other project details using word processing proposals

Project Contract

With SLICE, you have access to all the information for each project. Knowing your backlog as well as the status of the work in progress lets you plan and control your resources effectively. Contract control allows you to:

• Enter contract breakdown or copy from the estimate
• Record contracts for the month and year-to-date
• Invoice on a percentage of completion or by units
• Choose from regular and architectural billing and invoicing
• Record previous billings, down payments or returns
• Track work produced for the month and year-to-date
• Complete customer and project contract, accounts receivable control
• Track sales analysis by client types
• Review salesman and supervisor (foreman) reports
• Integrate with accounts receivable

Production Control

The production control system allows you to control and accurately track your materials, labor and equipment costs on each project. Included features are:

• Use the estimate as the budget for the project
• Print estimate sheets, loading lists and work orders
• Purchase order entry and update
• Automatic inventory update from purchase order
• Inventory commitment by project
• Materials, equipment usage and labor tracked to each project
• Automatic inventory update from release of materials to project
• Integrate with job costing

Job Costing and Analysis

The job costing system is integrated with accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll and inventory. A series of reports is available that show you the current status and profitability of every project. Know which projects are profitable and why. Review the status of a project, compare residential versus commercial jobs, compare the productivity of one crew or supervisor versus another and more. SLICE will automatically create a profit and loss report for each project.

• Comparison of actual versus estimated costs
• Report costs by individual project, operation, supervisor or various other criteria

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