Component Driven Estimating

These are a few examples of the reports available to your company. There are many variations on these and other reports too numerous to display each of them here. 

A component is group of inventory items that are assigned to an inventory item as part of the product sold to a customer. The component is displayed or hidden on the proposal or estimate as your needs dictate. The components are usually added into the final price and cost of the product group of items. Using this method allows ActiveApplications to insure uniformity in estimates and gives you a simple way to control how something is sold. This is a component
 

When using components in the estimating process they can be adjusted by the person creating the estimate as the job site conditions dictate. Because each component is defined in the inventory it is easy to assign difficulty levels to the job. Difficulty levels can affect the quantity of labor and equipment components automatically. This will further enhance your accuracy in the bidding or estimating process.

This component is assigned in the inventory to the item. 

When it is recalled on the estimate it can be adjusted as needed for the site conditions.

UDS follows several guidelines when designing reports. The amount of information that must be displayed determines the size of the report. If the necessary information can be displayed in portrait on your paper size it will. A smaller font size will be used until the type would be unreadable if made smaller. If the necessary information is too wide to fit portrait the computer will switch to landscape mode. If the required information is still too wide legal paper (8 by 14 inches) will automatically be selected in the printer. Your printer and print driver will determine how the commands are handled by your system. UDS makes it easy for you to get the information you must have.

The report samples displayed in these examples are captured directly from the report program that generates the report. Built into every UDS report is the ability to view it on the screen or place the report directly into Word or Excel format if those applications are available on your computer. Export it into one of several other file formats is available, too. 

Easy integration into Microsoft Office is a priority with UDS programming staff. You will be more productive when using Active Applications because of the Office integration features. 

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