The Muli Estimating Package provides a robust industry logical solution in its own right but its real power is the integration with other control and management procedures.
 

• Marketing Activity - Quotation Management
• Sales & Inventory Price File
• IAI - Direct Element & Quantity Identification and loading of details to Estimate (under development) and following the estimate interfaced with other core systems.
• Customer Master file details
• Project Skeletons
• Supplier & Subcontractor Master file details
• Direct loading of Project Budget
• Direct Writing of Orders with the estimate detail including components for ongoing project control
• Those components may also be allocated with:
• Quality Verification Activities
• Scheduling Dependencies

Estimating may be divided into a number of activities:-

• Identify the Items and Quantities to the relevant level
• Using company expertise to negotiate package pricing, check on repetitive items occurring over a range of projects (Project Home Builder)
• Obtaining trade package pricing based on applicable level of scope identification

The Estimate Master setup allows many options  to tailor individual company needs, i.e.. A project home builder would create a detailed estimate for each house type with a variable catch flag, i.e.  ???  for the project specific adjustment and/or client  selections.

Estimate Single Project Report (16.3)

This estimate may be copied in as a starting point for a specific end User estimate, noting that on each item, additional detail may be attached:-

Estimator's Note: A note that just appears in the estimate

Purchasing Note: A note that will be added to the purchase order used for client selection items like colour and finish.

QV Note: The attachment of the relevant Quality Assurance  procedure that is to be used to verify the completed activity is up to standard

Schedule: The Muli system allows that the scheduling dependencies may be developed in a Master Estimate and therefore emerge from a completed estimate, dramatically reducing setup time to establish the project schedule

(16.1d Estimate; Element detail)
(16.1e Estimate; Margin calculation)

The Muli allows Users to create separate groups within an estimate. This facility can be utilized to estimate  individual  houses, floors, buildings within an overall project,  while still  looking  at consolidated trade costs. One quotation (and  subsequent  order) for all  roofs on a project but each roof individually  identified.

(16.1a Estimate; Master face sheet)
(16.1b Estimate; grade summary)

Takeoffs are segregated into groups for easier estimation and management perception of the scope and alternatives of the project.

(16.1c Estimate: element summary)

Having completed the estimate and won the project, the project manager would review the trade packages and allocated suppliers to confirm same, allowing project budget to be directly loaded to the core system.

Where the estimate includes nominated suppliers for trade packages, then the Order with all relevant detail may be directly created to the core system based on estimate information.

(16.8.4 Create Estimate Order Screen)

(16.8.5 Estimate Order)

Where an order has multiple components, then the detail will be transferred to the Payments Control of Menu 11. Payment Details Maintenance)

The linkage to project schedule and Quality Verification, IAI interface is still under development and will be exposed when available. Please contact Muli for latest timings.