Turn Estimating Software Into A Project Management Tool
You spend a lot of time and money creating your estimate, and that data is valuable well beyond estimating.
Many companies use their estimating software for one thing only - to create a bottom line estimate of the cost of a project. But that's like building a five-story building and then using only the first floor. Why should project managers spend hours, days or even weeks re-entering the information already in the estimate? The data from the estimate, used properly, can help project managers run jobs more profitably and efficiently.
Today's more advanced estimating systems make it much easier to manipulate and access the data in the estimate for use in
managing projects. Some provide the ability to designate an item or a group of items as belonging to a particular system,
drawing, floor and even alternate bid.