NetSuite Solution
Built around the broadband build projectFiberBooks: plan the build. See every cost.
One plan for what a build needs, one schedule for which piece is used at which site on which day, and one place where material and labor cost post against the project.
The Problem
Most builds run on a spreadsheet, a PO list, and a crew calendar.
The plan lives in one place, the purchase orders in another, and the crew schedule in a third. Material shows up at the wrong site or on the wrong day, labor cost is reconciled after the fact, and nobody can say what a build actually cost until it is over.
How It Works
The plan, the schedule, and the cost are one record.
Plan
Before the build starts, the project manager lists what it needs: the material and the crews, each with the dates they are expected.
Schedule
Then the PM picks which day each piece gets used at which site. If something is scheduled before its material or crew is secured, FiberBooks warns the PM instead of stopping the work.
Cost
As the work happens, the warehouse records the material that moved, payroll hours post to the project, and contractor invoices come in against the crews you requested. You see the plan next to what actually happened, and the cost is already in the books.
One Shared Record
One build. One record. Everyone works from it.
The plan, the orders, the material, the work, and the cost are not passed along by email or spreadsheet. Each role works in its own part of the same record.
What's Included
What you get.
One plan
The material and crews a build needs, with expected dates, not hard deadlines.
A schedule that warns
Which day each piece is used at which site, with a warning instead of a block when something is not ready.
Material cost posts itself
Material taken from the warehouse and used on site posts its cost to the project automatically.
Labor against the plan
Internal and contracted labor shown against the plan in one place.
Scan-friendly
On the warehouse floor and in the field.
Just your lines
Project managers see only the lines that carry their project, and approve them line by line.
Why FiberBooks
Everyone does their own job. Accounting gets what it needs.
The field crew uses the material, the warehouse records what moved, procurement secures what the plan calls for, and the project manager watches it play out. Nobody does accounting work for accounting's sake, yet the cost of the build reaches the books.
Aaron LeBato
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