Project costing for customer quotations is important for the sales of a company is often a major challenge. This applies across all 'project-driven' sectors, such as services, IT, software and plant engineering. sectors, such as services, IT and software or plant engineering. MariProject helps with the integrated calculation and planning of projects.
The challenge of project costing
This starts with the costing of projects. In this pre-calculation all probable costs at the possible time of project implementation must be included. These are costs for employees, freelancers or bought-in service providers. In addition, costs for other resources such as equipment and machines, which can be represented in machine hours or consumption. The use of materials of all kinds, from software licences to spare parts, should also be taken into account.
With mark-ups for overhead and margin, this approach should then result in a competitive offer but which makes economic sense.
In many companies, the data for this comes from a wide variety of sources. Many already resort to this step of the project costing process MS Excelwith the usual dangers for topicality, error-proneness and traceability.
With MariProject to the integrated calculation of projects
Thanks to its fully integrated approach, MariProject always obtains all current figures and conditions from one system. This makes a reliable calculation of projects possible at any time.
The current price lists from SAP Business One provide the basis. In addition, average and last purchase prices can also be used for calculation.
However, the integration of processes in sales begins even before the calculation of a project. From the creation of the opportunity can already be linked to a planned project and its calculation. Price enquiries to suppliers can also be controlled based on this. The item price for the project calculation can then be determined from the price responses.
In the price calculation, the offer price is then determined using various methods. Of course, this also includes mark-ups that include overhead costs and margin.
The offer can then be created directly from the calculation. Of course, the project cost estimate can also be adapted subsequently or created in a further version. The same applies to the resulting quotations. The full integration of all processes in MariProject also provides the basis for a detailed final costing.
Essential features of project costing
- Variants for budgets
- Variants for calculations
- Different methods for project costing
- Calculation templates
- Calculable revenue per contract item
- Automatic transfer of purchase prices into the project calculation
- Discounts on an item basis or/and project basis
- Definable release for offers or/and budgets
- Automated treatment of currency fluctuations
You can also get an overview in the following video:
