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If you're involved with construction for a Residential Estate then these "best practices" for using your Project Accounting Software will help your client with their dealings with their financiers as well as simplifying your project manager's work.

However before you look at your software, it's best to have a clear idea of the processes involved when undertaking a broad-acre conversion to a residential housing estate.

The Big Picture

To start with you know that the financier backing your developer client is not going to take on the all of the Risk involved with constructing the total number of homes that can fit on the broad-acreage. They will aim to minimise their risk by staging the development.

So the the broad-acreage will be conceptually divided into several Development Stages. The first stage release will commence with the construction of a display village consisting of one of each house type. This enables their sales team to walk prospective clients through a completed home and to estimate the cost of changes to the basic design on a client by client basis.

After sufficient sales are made in Stage 1 the developer will release another Stage downstream and in the process build a new display village and sell off the first display homes you constructed.

This provides a positive cash flow for the developer as they progress through building the remaining stages and in doing so lessens the risk for the financier.

Now we understand the big picture, we have to determine how best to manage this Contract using our project accounting software.

One Project or Many Projects?

You may think it a good idea to set up each home as a project but there are disadvantages to this simplistic approach - particularly in terms of reporting.

It would be best if the whole Estate was defined as a single Project and then as you undertake construction you define each house, being the Scope of Works, as a Stage within that project in your project accounting software. The use here of the term "Stage" should not be confused with the "Staged releases" of land within the estate.

Better Client Reporting

One benefit of this approach is that it makes it easier to produce the reporting that your client the developer needs to provide to their Financiers to convince them that their risks are being managed properly. This is because you can produce "big picture" plus" drilled down" reporting as required.

Management Focus

The Stages approach also helps your project managers focus on the construction as they can see all the information about an individual house and follow it right through the system. In effect you have a "sub-cost report" for just a single house.

Managing Subcontractors

When a new house is required to be constructed, then you would add a new Stage and then allocate your tradespeople to work on it. The scheduling process will easily identify the extra details.

If we examine the Subcontractor Payment Claims process then each tradesman has an original contract for work on other stages (homes) so if they win another stage (home) then it will just be another amendment to their contract. You can then pay the subcontractor by stage and in the process make tracking and controlling the processes easier.

Complementary Projects

Depending upon how you contract with the developer you may in fact be establishing two projects - not one - for the entire estate. This would be the case if you decided to use a Complementary Project approach.

This approach enables you to manage the construction project on an "open book" basis, with the developer taking the risk and some portion of the work charged at agreed rates. You would take a small risk for the preliminary items but have an agreed rate of recovery for selected services such as project management on an hourly basis.

To do this in your construction accounting software you would establish one project as open book with the client, where the budgets equal the agreed target prices of the client. In this project, the income is equal to the expenses so there is no profit. But you link this project with a second project which invoices the first project for the value of contracted services at the agreed rates.

Payment Options

The next point to consider is how to pay subcontractors and suppliers in the first project so that it doesn't affect your cash-flow.

Ideally the client should setup a trust account and you pay contractors out of this account based upon a client approved payment list. However some developers may insist upon greater control of the "purse strings". In this case you could still control all the subcontractor claims paperwork within you're construction accounting software and at the end of each Pay-run send the direct deposits data file to your client so the developer can pay off this file using their own bank.

So the developer controls the "purse strings" but your project managers manage the job without you assuming the financial risk.

The practices should enable you to make better use of your project accounting software when you're constructing for a Residential Estate Developer.

The author Ronald Skeoch is the founder of Muli Management Pty Ltd, an Australian software developer of Project Accounting Software.

The flagship product, Muli, is a Project Risk, Accounting and Process Management software solution with an integrated Payroll.

A video demonstration of the Muli Software is accessible via the company website.

Escape Velocity Systems Evan Garber Cited in Ifsqn

In the feature entitled, Food Safety and Six Sigma, Escape Velocity Systems (www.evs-sw.com) is profiled. The entire International Food Safety and Quality Network article may be read at http://www.ifsqn.com/articles_detail.php?newsdesk_id=407&t=The+Impact+of+Six+Sigma+on+Food+Quality.

According to Evan Garber, President of Escape Velocity Systems (www.evs-sw.com), “Security means two separate things to a food or beverage company…formulas are a proprietary competitive edge and critical to quality and safety control. We believe there must be three levels of security that can specify formula visibility groups, formula change approvals, optional electronic signatures, and very specific access rules.”

According to manufacturing journalist, TR Cutler, “As beneficial as lean techniques and business strategies such as Six Sigma may prove to an organization, rarely is it a literal matter of life or death. Food Safety is the exception.”

Lynne Hambleton, author of Treasure Chest of Six Sigma Growth Methods, Tools, and Best Practices, details QFD, Quality Function Deployment. She notes that QFD helps manufacturers:

• Translate customer requirements into specific offering specifications

• Prioritize possible offering specifications and make trade-off decisions based on weighted customer requirements and ranked competitive assessment.

These trade-offs become obvious when Quality Control keeps their own database of test profiles, test results, hold status, lot information and more. The challenge according to Garber, “When changes to the QC database do not affect current inventory in the ERP system, someone must make adjustments or physically segregate the materials in the warehouse so that they are not used. This practice leads to errors, untimely data, and the possibility of using or shipping something that was not approved.”

Production reporting is not timely enough to affect the current day's production. With an active and integrated system, production is notified immediately if yields or costs go outside of specifications. Most food quality business must track attributes, such as: solids content, nutritional details, sugar content, and color on a lot by lot basis. These food manufacturers often have different attribute specifications for different customers. Because the ERP is used for inventory control, the ERP system is a perfect place to manage these complexities, generate the customer specific Certificate of Analysis.

Food Quality Issues to Test in Technology Solution Integration

• Instant lot traceability (forwards and backwards) that drills down into shipments, receipts and through production

• Quality Control and lot attribute variability analysis

• Customer specific requirements for attributes

• Formulation by percents, variable units of measure or both at the same time

• Customer service visibility (from Sales Orders) into current production data

• Pricing flexibility including: national accounts, contracts, promotions, customer and product price groups

About the Author

Escape Velocity Systems
www.evs-sw.com
Evan Garber
President
solutions@evs-sw.com
303.494.1765 x114

Comparison of Lawson vs. Peoplesoft?

Looking to implement an ERP system for GL, AP, FA, Projects etc. Midsized retailer. Looking for users who have used both to give their viewpoint on strengths and weaknesses of both Financial tools. Particular interests in drill around functionality, workflow and reporting tools. Also, any opinions on supporting the retail method of accounting in either package. Neither appear to have a specific "stockledger" package. Just looking for opinions, likes and dislikes etc. from the user perspective. Thx!

Lawson is great for a mid size company, in certain industries. It was designed mainly around pharmacetical companies. Like many companies, it took that idea and tried to make it sound like a universal software. If you manufacture and need to have sharp cost accounting by unit, then Lawson is OK. I t leads a little to be desired in other industries (like retailing).

PS is a much better overall product. Many more value added features and modules are available. Since Oracle bought PS & JD Edwards, the word is that they are taking the best of all packages and creating a blended product (code named "Fusion").

PS is the hands down winner in this case. But, it is much more costly.

For mid size business, check out Infinium Software. Better price point and better functionality than Lawson for Retail.

West Energy given the go ahead
The decision passed down by the Energy Resource Conservation Board in the hearing of Bonnie and John Logan vs. West Energy, was one that was expected "before, during and after" the hearing by CEO Ken McCagherty.

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