Efficiently manage labor, equipment & materials with 4castplus. Simplify resource management with intelligent tools for tracking labor pools, managing equipment assets, and organizing materials categories for procurement and inventory. Use robust rates databases to configure resource rates for accurate estimating and real-time project tracking. Configure complex labor rates for union, crews and other composite rate requirements.
Planning and executing construction projects requires a vast array of resources from labor and equipment, to materials, services and vendors. 4castplus construction resource management software enables you to manage and report on all your assets for use in estimating, tracking and reporting. Organize resources in hierarchical categories for classification, coding, rates management and much more.
Labor workforce management
Manage the full range of your employees and contractors in a centralized place, including HR rules, vacation, permissions, union details, min/max hours, scheduling and much more.
Equipment asset management
Full database for managing all your owned and rented equipment, along with maintenance schedules, safety documents, etc.
Materials management
Comprehensive materials database with hierarchical categories and cost codes. Critical for benchmarks, estimating, procurement, project tracking and reporting.
Rates Management
Construction projects place a lot of heavy demands on accurate costing, estimating and tracking – and thus require a powerful system that gives you the flexibility to cover the most complex rates management scenarios. 4castplus truly delivers with its robust rates databases for labor, equipment, materials, expenses, services and even rates for installation quantity progress.
Labor rates and labor burdens
Whether you have union or non-union staff at the jobsite, engineers in the office, direct or indirect labor, 4castplus has the depth and intelligence to have you covered.
Cost and billing rates tables
You can configure cost rate and billing rate tables for any purpose and apply them as needed to the project, task, crew or shift as needed. So much flexibility.
For contractors, resources are their most valuable resource
Construction contractors that self-perform have extremely challenging needs for managing resources – such as labor, equipment, materials and vendors – required for planning and executing projects. 4castplus brings tremendous power and flexibility to enable the centralized control of all these moving parts so that contractors can simplify, organize and standardize their abundance of project resources. Additionally, 4castplus delivers impressive depth in support for the complexities of rates used in estimating, tracking, costing and billing these resources. Whether it’s composite rates for union labor, a multitude of units-of-measure for materials, daily rate versus hourly rate for an excavator, or any other scenario – 4castplus truly delivers.
4castplus provides comprehensive tools to manage your entire resource pool, including labor, equipment, and materials. With intelligent tracking and categorization, you can efficiently organize your resources, track costs, and manage procurement and inventory. 4castplus has built-in costing databases to preload standard cost rates for your resources and resource disciplines (classes). All your labor, equipment and materials that are used on projects can be stored in the built-in databases. They can be hierarchically categorized and coded to enhance reporting, retrieval, and organization.
4castplus provides you with the ability to configure Billing Rate Tables that serve as the rate sheets that define how your time is billed to the client. For every hour of labor or equipment time on T&M projects, 4castplus will use the applicable billing rate to determine the billable amount to charge as recognized revenue on the project.
And, since you can configure both cost and billing rate tables, 4castplus also applies cost; and calculates profit in real time. These billing rates are pertinent to labor, equipment, materials, expenses, and services.
4castplus allows you to configure complex labor rate structures, including union labor, overtime, crews, and composite rates. This enables you to preconfigure the rules for when a pay class should jump from, for example, straight time to overtime, etc. When a site foreman enters the time for their crew, they only need to enter the number of hours, and the system applies the applicable rates according to the rules. They don’t have to know that a 15-hour day is split between straight, overtime, and double overtime. They just enter 15, and the system takes care of the rest. The same applies to a work week.
Yes, 4castplus offers a comprehensive equipment and materials management system. You can track all owned and rented equipment, manage maintenance schedules, and ensure proper documentation. For materials, you can categorize and code them for easy procurement, inventory management, and accurate cost tracking. 4castplus has powerful built-in timesheets for labor and equipment, along with tracking of materials through purchase orders or supplier invoice entry (non-PO costs). Everything is costed in real-time and uses the preconfigured rates for accurate cost and billing.
The 4castplus estimating module leverages the cost and billing rate tables to the take-off level of resource-level estimating. In the project estimate, you can itemize the labor, equipment, materials, expenses, etc. that are required for the budget of any task. Each estimate item will be costed using the quantity and rate for that item. If you need 100 hours of a Senior Ironworker, for example, the system will look up the applicable rate in the rate table and calculate the total. The rate tables hold all the standardized cost & billing rates for any resource used in estimating (labor, equipment, materials, etc.). Rate tables can be configured for the project and also by each task, so that you can be very specific as to which rates are applicable in each case. You can also establish ‘effective dates’ of rate tables. This means that the system will automatically apply the correct rate at a point in time, allowing for anticipated rate escalations. This same estimating capacity is also available in change orders.
With 4castplus, you can configure limitless resource rates databases to support all your resource categories and classes. This ensures precise estimating and tracking of costs, from labor to materials, and simplifies the process of managing and reporting these rates for project budgeting and financial oversight.
Labor workforce management
Cost rates
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Billing rates
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Equipment asset management
Composite rates for union and other rate structures
Crew and shift
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Labor workforce management
Equipment asset management
Composite rates for union and other rate structures
Billing rates management
Cost rates management
Crew and shift management
Step into the future of project management with 4castplus. Free yourself from paper, spreadsheets, and disconnected systems. Elevate your projects with a suite of integrated cost management tools that ensure precision and efficiency from planning to execution. Maximize project profitability – contact us today to learn more.
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