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PENTA Construction Software solves numerous business issues across your construction, engineering and service enterprise, delivering rapid return on investment. Select a Job Function from the list below to find out how:

Executive Management

Finance & Accounting

Operations

Field Personnel

Billing Manager

Can you relate to these Billing Issues?

Issuing Cost Plus T&M Billings is Time and Labor Intensive
Customers Reject Invoices Due to Innacuracy
Customers Reject Invoices Due to Formatting / Presentation Issues
Failing to Capture and Bill all Billable Costs has a Negative Impact on Profitability
Cycle Time between Incurring Cost and Collecting Revenue is too Long

PENTA solves each of these issues and more. Contact us or read more about PENTA’s Construction Accounting Software features to find out how.

IT Manager

Can you relate to these IT Issues?

Inability to Cost-Effectively Provide Data Entry and Access to Users at Branch Offices and Job Sites
Inability to Know what New Equipment will be needed to Support all Users on a New System
Spending too much Time Getting Info for Users
Users Want better Access to Information in your Systems

PENTA solves each of these issues and more. Contact us or read more about PENTA Construction Accounting Software features to find out how.

Finance Manager

Can you relate to these Issues?

Your Current Vendor Doesn’t Provide Good Support, Doesn’t Understand Your Business, Hasn’t been Upgrading the System, Doesn’t Respond to Your Requests
Your Company Operates in a Market with Traditionally Tight Profit Margins
Your Company Operates in a Highly Competitive Market
You had to Change Systems sooner than planned due to Technology that became Obsolete
You Need this System Up and Running on Time and on Budget, and it needs to Really Work for Your Company

PENTA solves each of these issues and more. Contact us or read more about PENTA Construction Accounting Software features to find out how.

CFO / Controller

Can you relate to these Finance Issues?

Current System gets out of Balance, Causing Extra Work to Reconcile
Closing the System and Producing End-of-Month Reports takes too Long
Controlling the WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE and WHY of Job Cost Changes
Inter-Company Transactions and Consolidated Reporting take Lots of Extra Work

PENTA solves each of these issues and more. Contact us or read more about PENTA’s Construction Accounting Software features to find out how.

Project Manager

Can you relate to these Project Management and Job Cost Issues?

Inability to Know what kind of work is Most Profitable
Poor Information Sharing Between Departments
Inability to Access Information in a Timely Fashion
Failure to Identify Problems in time to Respond

PENTA solves each of these issues and more. Contact us or read more about PENTA’s Project Management Software features to find out how.

Accounts Payable

Can you relate to these Accounts Payable Issues?

Sales and Use Tax Audits are Costly and Time-Consuming
Finding out the Current Status of Specific Payable items is Difficult
AP and Job Cost Reporting is Inaccurate Due to Invoices Lost or Delayed during Routing and Approval
You Miss out on available Discounts
Cycle Time between Incurring Cost and Collecting Revenue is too Long

PENTA solves each of these issues and more. Contact us or read more about PENTA’s Construction Accounting Software features to find out how.

Purchasing

Can you relate to these Purchasing Issues?

Material is Delivered too Late or too Soon to the Job Site
Project Manager doesn’t know what has been Ordered and what is to be Delivered
Invoices Must be Matched to PO prior to Data Entry
Need to Negotiate Better Prices and Discounts from Vendors
Items are not up to Specifications, causing Project Delays and other Problems
Inability to keep Up-to-Date on PO Change Orders
Late Invoices cause Job Cost Surprises

PENTA solves each of these issues and more. Contact us or read more about PENTA’s Construction Accounting Software, Construction Purchasing Software features to find out how.

Payroll

Can you relate to these Payroll Issues?

Need to Efficiently and Accurately Collect and Enter Timecards from Multiple Office and Job Sites
Need to Efficiently and Accurately Handle the many Exceptions that occur in Routine Processing
Complex Union Payroll Requirements (Fringe Benefit Calculations, Reporting, etc.)
Need to Restrict Access to Confidential Payroll Information such as Management Salaries

PENTA solves each of these issues and more. Contact us or read more about PENTA’s Construction Payroll Software features to find out how.

Equipment Manager

Can you relate to these Equipment Management Issues?

You sometimes Rent, Buy, or Lease Equipment you Don’t Need due to Inability to Track Location and Status of Fleet
Keeping Equipment Information in a Separate System creates Extra Work, Hurts Availability and Quality of Data
Desire to Tie Equipment Expenses to Job Charge Rates
Manual Systems to Track Equipment Maintenance are Cumbersome and Error-Prone - Necessary Tasks can be Missed
Need to Bill Customer for Equipment use on a Different Basis than is used to Charge Jobs

PENTA solves each of these issues and more. Contact us or read more about PENTA’s Equipment Cost Control Softwarefeatures to find out how.

CEO / Senior Executive

Can you relate to these Performance Management Issues?

Management solutions are not providing pertinent information on a timely basis regarding the status of your company’s operations
Inability to identify business units that are not meeting performance objectives: profit margin, cash position, other KPIs
Are not able to easily view the status of all business activities as certain business units are managed on non-integrated systems, for example service operations on one system and construction operations on another
Inability to manage by exception: ex. auto alerts of jobs projecting losses or profit margin below a specific percentage of the planned margin

PENTA solves each of these issues and more. Contact us or read more about PENTA’s Construction Software features to find out how.

Service Manager

Can you relate to these Service Management Issues?

Turnaround of customer invoices for services performed is dependent upon payroll processing and receipt of vendor invoices
No ability to project resource requirements in accordance with future scheduled maintenance services
The lack of a standard quoting system leads to inconsistent and inaccurate contract agreements
Inability to view backlog of unassigned / unscheduled work orders
No advance warnings of maintenance contracts nearing the end of the current contract term
Inability to view current work assignments/work queues for all technicians
Too little or too much inventory on hand for the current month’s preventive maintenance activities

PENTA solves each of these issues and more. Contact us or read more about PENTA’s Field Service Software Suite features to find out how.

Operations Manager

Can you relate to these Operations Management Issues?

Inability to graphically view the status of all projects as of a point in time, or all projects for a specific project manager, or customer, or market segment, etc.
No ability to see trend information to identify projects that may be profitable but are moving to a less profitable position
No electronic repository of project documents with the ability to quickly and easily access and view the desired documents
Multiple solutions are used to manage the financial aspects of jobs vs. the administrative aspects of jobs (RFI’s, Submittals, Communications, etc.) resulting in duplication of data and having to learn and maintain multiple systems

PENTA solves each of these issues and more. Contact us or read more about PENTA’s Construction Software features to find out how.

Profit Center / Branch Manager

Can you relate to these Operations Management Issues?

Management solutions are not providing pertinent information on a timely basis regarding the status of your business unit’s operations
Inability to receive advance notice of problem jobs or customers that would enable timely corrective action
Inability to manage by exception: ex. auto alerts of jobs projecting losses or profit margin below a specific percentage of the planned margin
No ability to manage the receivable status and assist with collections of sales for your business unit

PENTA solves each of these issues and more. Contact us or read more about PENTA’s Construction Software features to find out how.

Field Superintendent

Can you relate to these Crew Management Issues?

Collection and reporting of daily work activity is paper based
Changes in the makeup of work crews complicates reporting
Feedback on labor productivity comes too late or is non existent

PENTA solves each of these issues and more. Contact us or read more about PENTA’s Mobile Field Reporting Software features to find out how.

AR Manager / Collections

Can you relate to these Accounts Receivable Management Issues?

No graphical view of key information such as AR Days Outstanding or a list of the top 5 customers in terms of open AR balances, etc.
Histories of collection call activities are paper based or non existent
No ability to “assign” collection activities to others within your organization and have those individuals alerted to actions they’re responsible for
Unable to establish credit hold conditions that automatically kick-in on slow or non paying customers preventing setup of additional work

PENTA solves each of these issues and more. Contact us or read more about PENTA’s Construction Accounting Software features to find out how.

Dispatcher

Can you relate to these Service Dispatching Issues?

Managing work assignments for field technicians can vary based on type of work, residential vs. commercial, regular call vs. preventive maintenance activity, etc. Need multiple, configurable schedule boards to manage different scenarios
No ability to quickly access the list of equipment at a customer site, determine if the equipment is under warranty nor access technical documents for that equipment
No ability to quickly determine if a customer location is covered by a maintenance contract, and if so, what the terms of the contract are
No automated alerts that identify customers who require special attention when calls are assigned to technicians, i.e. alert site contact before arrival, etc.
Must rely on voice communication with field technicians to obtain updates on their current work activities or to alert them to their next assignment

PENTA solves each of these issues and more. Contact us or read more about PENTA’s Field Service Software features to find out how.

Field Service Technician

Can you relate to these Field Service Issues?

Must report to the office or receive faxes at home to obtain the next day’s work assignments
Collection and reporting of daily work performed is paper based
No access to service history for a customer location or for specific customer equipment
No access to warranty information for customer equipment
Required to maintain duplicate timecard records, one for payroll purposes and one for work order cost / billing purposes

PENTA solves each of these issues and more. Contact us or read more about PENTA’s Mobile Field Service Software features to find out how.

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