DTR Software: Plastics-specific Job Costing
Here you will find information on DTR Plastics software's product costing, project costing, quoting jobs, variance reporting and our Bag and Film Quoter.
Product Costing
With DTR Plastics software, you can simply click on any job to view data input, calculated costs, sales value or margins for each level of operation. What’s more, product costing is fully integrated with accounting, sales, purchasing and payroll applications so you can automatically create purchase orders. Your employees can use the project costing Gantt chart to:
- Track the operations that are included in each job.
- Perform detailed costing (standards and actual) at all levels.
- Monitor employee cost and hours per job.
- View the beginning and ending date of any job.
Project Costing
The DTR Plastics software cost matrix is available to help you generate simple or more detailed quotes. With accurate project costing critical to your success, the system supports detailed cost management and automatically distributes costs across all related job operations. Your staff can:
- Track multiple labor classes/rates.
- Apply detailed cost management and automatically distribute costs.
- Automatically create purchase orders from project costing.
- Create payroll timecards—interface to DTR Plastics software’s payroll.
- View time card entries on your screen for editing.
- Automatically create journal entries.
- Store past job history information.
- Allocate late vendor invoices to one or more jobs.
- Manage sub-contracted jobs.
Variance Reporting
DTR Plastics software contains many standard reports that you can access at a moments notice—making it quick and easy to get project costing data out of your system. Some standard reports available to you include:
- Percentage of completion reports
- Standard to actual costing (in graphical format)
- Cost overrun projections (in graphical format)
- Actual vs. estimate (hours and dollars)
- Quote vs. estimate vs. actual
- By job or project
- Material costed to jobs, materials received and unallocated, time card activity and tooling revisions
Film and Bag Quoter
The DTR Plastics software Film and Bag Quoter is specially designed for film extruders, flexographic printers, gravure printers, extrusion laminators, adhesive laminators, coaters, metalizers, slitters, bag and pouch makers and other similar processes. As a Film and Bag processor, you can use the quoting application to:
- Quote from our market price table.
- Build quotes by process (extrusion, printing, slitting, etc.).
- Capture the costs by process.
- Incorporate mill, width, length, side trim, header, lip and side/end gussets and more into their quotes.
- Convert rolls to bags.
- Ensure the correct selling price by using high/low order margins.
- See an instant view of calculations of weight and area, based on your specifications.
- Make selections for artwork, terms on the order...and more.
- Improve customer service with quick and accurate quoting.
- Easily retrieve quotes for multiple items, by customer, or sales representative.
- Create Sales Orders, Inventory and Customer records.