Best Job Costing Software for Manufacturing Businesses
The Costing Application is designed to help manufacturing industries manage orders, shop requests, customer records, and production processes, including tracking profit and loss, sending notifications, and generating reports. This costing tool helps manufacturing companies manage customer records, quotes, shop orders, production processes, and track profitability through features like quote generation, order management, customizable reporting, and automated notifications.
About Manufacturing Costing Software
The Costing Software is designed as a customizable module within the manufacturing ERP system and is also available as a standalone application. These are core components of job costing software, especially for discrete manufacturing, since each job/order may differ in scope, materials, and cost estimation.
Cost Tracking: Efficiently track, shop orders, request quotes, material, labor, and overhead costs, etc. at a single platform.
Cost Analysis: Provide tools to analyze costs, identify areas for improvement, and make informed decisions.
Integration: Easily integrates with other systems, such as ERP, inventory management, or sales software, or external tools.
Reporting: Features to generate reports on costs, profitability, and other key metrics, e.g., profit and loss, financials, etc.
Zuggo Manufacturing Costing Software Features
The Zuggo Manufacturing Costing Software is available as a SaaS and on-premises solution for manufacturing businesses used to centralize the management of customer information, customer records, shop orders, quotes, production processes, profit and loss tracking, email notifications, automated reports/analysis, and financial tracking (profit/loss) within a business. It also provides access to customer contact details, order history, and communication logs in one place.
Quote Generation & Management
The costing review database lets users/managers submit, edit, and review quote requests. You can quickly generate professional and accurate quotes directly within the Costing database and standardize your quoting process. It helps to easily manage quote revisions and track quote statuses to improve your quick response to customer inquiries and increase your sales conversion rates.
Shop Order Management/Integration
The costing review database lets the user/manager submit, edit, and review shop order requests simply by filling in details stored in the database, such as part number, SO type, Quantity, etc. This helps to convert accepted quotes into customer orders within the organization. It manages all customer orders in one central location, tracks order progress, and links orders directly to cost data for improved job costing and profitability analysis.
Customer Order Tracking & History
The Costing software allows efficient management and maintains customer orders, reviews/edits/enters new customer orders, and provides a comprehensive history of all customer orders. It helps to quickly retrieve order details, track order status, and review past orders for repeat customers.
Customer Management & Costing
The costing manages entire customer orders, quoting, and shop orders. Whenever a new customer orders, it generates an order quote according to customer requirements, and then, after confirming the quotes, it generates a shop order request, etc. This is the process/way to manage the entire costing and customer orders. It automatically captures production costs associated with each job and links shop orders to customer orders and quotes
Customizable Reporting & Dashboards
The custom reports dashboard allows the creation/review of custom reports such as Shop order reports, price increase/decrease reports, total pricing reports, amount of time for shop orders approved/denied, total shop orders for weeks/months, history, etc. You can select from a range of data points to create reports on product costs, profitability, sales performance, and more.
Automated Email Notifications
The automated emails feature in costing is to set up automated email notifications to keep stakeholders informed about each step in the costing process, such as customer orders, quotes, shop orders, and all other relevant information. It automatically sends order confirmations to customers, production status updates to internal teams, or quote follow-up reminders to sales representatives.
Efficiently Simplify Your Manufacturing Costing and Customer Records, and Shop orders
The manufacturing job costing software aims to standardize costing processes, shop orders, quoting, costing, expenses, customer records, and project management and enhance financial control by centralizing data and automating key workflows from initial customer orders to final production and reporting.
How It Works (The Costing Process)
Our costing software streamlines the entire order lifecycle, starting from quote requests to production execution and delivery. This ensures complete visibility and control over job costing, profitability, and reporting.
Let’s See How Costing Software Can Address Your Needs
Don’t wait any longer. If you’re a manufacturing company or business looking for a custom costing app OR an entire manufacturing ERP system for your manufacturing operations. Zuggo is offering both Manufacturing ERP with 12+ custom modules, including costing and more.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to commonly asked questions.
What is job costing software for manufacturing?
Job costing software for manufacturing is a custom application that helps manufacturing businesses track all the expenses, shop orders, generate quotes, etc., related to a particular job, including materials, labor, equipment, and overhead costs, to get a comprehensive breakdown of total expenses required. It mostly helps to track, analyze, and manage all the costs associated with making a product, part, or completing any job in the manufacturing environment. This can be used as a standalone application or a custom module with the ERP system (like we are using our costing app as both a standalone and a custom module with our ERP system).
Why is accurate manufacturing costing important?
Accurate cost accounting is important because it helps you determine how much each unit really costs. This directly affects financial statements, profitability, pricing strategies, cash flow, inventory valuation, tax liabilities, and compliance risks. It also changes the final price of a product.
What types of costs does manufacturing costing software track?
Manufacturing costing software tracks the sum of costs of all resources consumed in making a product, including direct material costs, direct labor costs, and manufacturing overhead. Plus, it helps you keep track of costs for both work-in-progress and finished goods and manage complicated overhead allocations.
Can manufacturing costing software integrate with existing systems?
Yes, the software is designed to easily integrate with other systems, such as manufacturing ERP, inventory management, sales software, or other software products like QuickBooks, Excel, etc. These modern platforms let us manage costing, accounting, inventory, and production data in one place, which will help maintain precise records, reduce waste, and enhance cash flow management.
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