Industries · Contracting and construction
You win work against a bill of quantities and then spend months discovering what it actually cost. Labour, plant, subcontractors and materials arrive on different paperwork at different times, and by the time they meet in the accounts the project is finished and the number is history.
The operation
You win work against a bill of quantities and then spend months discovering what it actually cost. Labour, plant, subcontractors and materials arrive on different paperwork at different times, and by the time they meet in the accounts the project is finished and the number is history.
AlpineERP holds the bill of quantities as the spine of the project. Rate, quantity and executed measure sit on each line, so the gap between what was priced and what was built is visible while the work is still running. Interim applications are raised against measured work with retention held as a receivable that has a release date, subcontractor work packages and back charges are tracked per account, and equipment hours, wages and issued material post against the project that consumed them.
How your commercial team runs variations, certificates and retention releases is mapped during discovery, and the fields, workflow, roles and permissions are configured to match before you go live. The related industries below cover neighbouring operations, and implementation is scoped and fixed-price before any work starts.
What matters here
Rate, quantity and executed measure held per line, so the gap between what was priced and what was built is visible while the work is still running.
Interim applications raised against measured work, with retention held as a receivable that has a release date rather than a note in someone's file.
Work packages, back charges and advances tracked against each subcontractor, so a payment certificate reflects what was actually done on site.
Equipment hours, wages and issued material posted against the project that consumed them, so job cost is a live figure rather than a year-end exercise.
What usually goes wrong
Try building it
Describe the rule you would add and Alpine builds the fields, workflow and permissions for it.
Questions
Yes. Equipment hours and wages are allocated to the project that consumed them, so a crew or machine moving between sites leaves its cost on the right job rather than in a general overhead pool.
A variation is raised as a priced amendment to the bill of quantities and carries its own approval gate, so work that has been instructed but not yet agreed is visible rather than absorbed.
Retention is held as a receivable with a release date against each certificate, so money owed back to you after practical completion is a tracked balance rather than an act of memory.
