Activity Based Costing software, for those who want to implement ABC in business.

When an item, or group of items, is received from the supplier, the Purchasing Officer should reconcile the receipt (or cart note) against the relevant Purchase Order by using the Purchase Order Reconciliation feature of the system (see image below)

This reconciliation process is used to maintain the status of all ordered items, that is, received or still on backlog. By carrying out Purchase Orders Reconciliation, the updated information can be used to accurately compare the actual materials cost with the costs estimated during the quoting process.

"ABC Manufacturing™" was designed to take full advantage of the features emodied in the Microsoft scheduling program, Microsoft Project, that is capable of allocating the Tasks across all jobs recorded in the database against your resources, thus enabling your Production Manager to arrange the production schedule to avoid over-allocation of resources, while still meeting the delivery deadlines requested by your customers.

The system allows you to view the jobs in the Master Schedule as a Gantt Chart in Microsoft Project, allowing you to 'level' your resources to minimise problems of over-allocating.

Now, I'd like to introduce you to the Data Collection System