Advanced Jobs & Services by Acumen

Complement your business

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is rich in functionality and capability that empowers and streamlines how your business engages with customers, suppliers and sub-contractors.

Streamline Processes

Whether its managing progress claims, variations or retentions – introducing Advanced Jobs & Services by Acumen can deliver productivity and profitability though smart process automation.

Job specific efficiency

We understand that no two jobs are the same. We can anticipate and accomodate the changeable nature of your work to make sure you’re saving time and money on every job.

Simple, hassle-free deployment

By partnering with Acumen you can work with our industry-leading consultants who will learn about your business and deliver all the advantages of Acumen’s extension with the minimum of disruption.

When it comes to managing progress claims, variations or retentions, Acumen can empower your business, introduce automation and deliver enhanced productivity and profitability

Progress Claims

Create progress claims depending on the invoicing setup on the job. You can define a job as Time & Material or Fixed Price and create job-specific invoices such as Cost + Factor or % of completion.

Create all progress claims in batch for a specific period
Progress Claims per Customer are created from the WIP reports
Change the amounts and/or percentages to be invoiced
Send (email, hard-copy) to the customer for approval
Approved the progress claim and create the Sales Invoice

Learn more about Acumen Advanced Jobs & Services Progress Claims here

Variations

Create extra work for the jobs as a separate variation. Keep track of budgets and actuals (cost and sales) for the entire job or per variation.

Manage variations from both a cost and revenue perspective
Variations can follow the invoice type of the Base contract or have their own processing

Learn more about Acumen Advanced Jobs & Services Variations here

Retentions

Manage retention on both customer and subcontractor level

Manage retention (fixed or variable) when creating the sales invoice
Keep track of the retentions held by the customer and create the retention invoice at completion of the job and after the remainder after a fixed period (usually 1 year)
Define a retention schedule on the project to automatically calculate the retentions held on each invoice
The retention management screen provides an overview of all retentions held on the jobs and when they are due to be billed

Learn more about Acumen Advanced Jobs & Services Retentions here

Tender Management

The Advanced Jobs & Services Tender & Opportunity Management module enhances the opportunity management module from standard Business Central.

Learn more about Acumen Advanced Jobs & Services Tender Management here

Reporting

Microsoft 365 Business Central offer powerful reporting tools that help you visualise several project factors in a variety of views.

Learn more about Acumen Advanced Jobs & Services Reporting here

Time Sheets

Time Sheet Administrators can use the Create Time Sheets batch job to set up time sheets for a specified number of time periods or weeks for specified users – enabling the time sheet owner to record and review the time spent on a task.

Learn more about Acumen Advanced Jobs & Services Progress Claims here

Pricing Calculations

The calculation of the cost and sales budget of the Tender/Opportunity can be done in or outside of Microsoft 365 Business Central.

Learn more about Acumen Advanced Jobs & Services Progress Claims here

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