The Equipment Management (EM) package includes the following capabilities:
Each piece
of equipment is a separate cost center for individual tracking.
Maintenance
costs, revenues, profitability, location and internal rental rates are available
for each piece of equipment.
Equipment
profitability can be compared with prior year Equipment costs by job are maintained
in summary and detail.
Equipment
by Job report shows for each job what equipment was used and when Equipment
Analysis report helps to identify when equipment or vehicles become too expensive
to maintain.
Organizes
equipment by categories and sub-categories Each piece of equipment can have
recorded serial number, tag number, expiration dates for tags and inspection
stickers, etc.
Includes equipment
location feature to keep track of where equipment is being used, by job.
Update mechanic's
labor expense from Payroll automatically Update hours of use from equipment
input by job and transfers directly to the preventive maintenance procedures.
Preventive
maintenance module tracks hours/miles of use and reports when equipment should
be serviced according to user defined service intervals for each piece of
equipment.
Preventive
maintenance has "notebook" feature where comments can be entered and maintained
for reference for each piece of equipment.
Cost information
from payables and payroll also automatically update the "notebook".
Depreciation
Module (for both book and tax) is available through the equipment module.
All depreciation methods and tables are included. Depreciation is available
for all fixed assets as well as equipment.
Maintenance
function allows for adding, deleting or changing equipment master file information
on a single screen.
Automatic
interface to A/R billing module allowing update of equipment cost and hours
of use to the equipment module.
