Maestro*’s dashboard closely monitors daily expenses and returns to ensure that you maximize profits from each mine or hole. Maestro* gives you precise management tools to do this right. Maestro*’s daily drilling report quickly and easily captures daily costs and drilling depths for each crew at each mine.
Each stage of the process, you can create a budget and closely monitor expenses with maestro*’s user-friendly yet powerful interface. Maestro* helps you determine at what point the cost of continued exploration will exceed the value of any potential find. By knowing the precise moment when a project becomes profitable, you will be prepared to make better decisions. Seeing things coming is at the heart of maestro*’s engineered processes.
With maestro*, you can record crew time, coring time, casing expenses, equipment usage and other expenses that will be automatically propagated to payroll, inventory and accounts payable. Each mine or hole can be set up as a project, complete with a budget. Actual, accrued and committed costs can be monitored in real time against each project. Revenue from excavated materials can be recorded through sales transactions and directly in each project. Avoid cost overruns with maestro*’s proven intelligent management.
Because drilling and mining contractors have very specialized needs, maestro* provides flexible solutions, enabling you to see when a project is going off track—before it costs you money.
You need to be able to prepare billing formats that make sense to your clients. Maestro* even helps you manage your employee bonuses to encourage retention. With maestro*’s single-entry system, you can access vital information reliably. Billing is a breeze with maestro*. Simply run the invoicing preparation, then validate and automatically generate your invoices. Track your costs and monitor your cost per unit drilled daily. Spot trouble before it’s too late to take corrective action.
Maestro* helps you locate spare parts quickly in the event of equipment failure.
Maestro*’s daily drilling entry screen is an efficient application that helps you capture daily activity from each of your sites. All information will automatically update labor and material expenses for each site/hole. After entering your daily time, you can quickly print a validation report to ensure that all your entries are accurate.
That’s why Maestro offers you a fully integrated system that allows you to control and access data in real-time, on a single user interface and therefore allowing you to have full control over all processes, maximize your profits, stay on budget and on schedule and reduce risks of doubling or losing data entries.
Daily Drilling Entry
Easily track all drilling expenses by crew and shift. Track time related to foreman, helpers and runners. The time will automatically be used to create payroll. Track materials used such as casing and stabilizers. Track other expenses related to crews and shifts such as cook, helicopter and wedge bonuses. Daily drilling entry is highly specialized for mining and drilling companies.
Billing Management
Maestro* supports all types of construction billing methods including Lump Sum, Progress, Cost Plus, Time & Material, Work Order, Service Call, Order Desk, Point of Sale and Ticket Billing.
Bonus Calculation
Define virtually unlimited bonus formulas by trade, region, site and hole. Easily capture number of wedges and meals prepared per shift. Note if a helicopter bonus applies. Maestro* will automatically calculate bonuses for payroll. Save time and improve accuracy.
Automatic Overtime Calculation
Define multiple overtime scenarios such as max regular hours per day/week and max overtime hours per day/week. Link scenarios to various trades and maestro* will automatically prepare overtime and double-time distribution.
Detailed Project Analysis
Analyze every detail of every project site or hole using one of maestro*’s many analysis tools. Project inquiry, pivotal reporting, custom reports or any of the many standard project reports that come standard with every maestro* installation will provide you with quick, easy and timely access to the information that you need.
Project Costing
Maestro* offers one of the most sophisticated project cost management tools available today, a single tool that addresses the information analysis requirements of estimating, operations and accounting. With maestro*’s unique Pivotal Data Viewer, project cost information can be easily viewed in multiple dimensions. All information is shared in real-time between estimating, operations and accounting departments, eliminating redundant databases and spreadsheets. Maestro*’s project cost management and inquiry module is completely integrated with our other modules, including change order, commitment, billing, projection, production and other management modules.
General Accounting
Maestro* offers a complete accounting solution that is fully integrated into all of maestro*’s specialized construction project management modules. All information passes through the project management modules automatically, eliminating wasteful entry duplication between operational and accounting systems. Maestro*’s design ensures that both the accounting and operations departments have the specific tools that they need to get the job done right, without compromising the availability or quality of the information they require.
Payroll Interface
Maestro* interfaces with several payroll service providers. For more information:
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MICR Cheque Printing
Pretty much a standard today, magnetic ink cheques provide a higher level of security against cheque fraud. Maestro* allows for the printing of supplier and payroll cheques using MICR format.
Depreciation Management
This module allows the management of depreciation books according to different recognized methods, in addition to presenting all information regarding each item’s value. This module is integrated with maestro*’s equipment management and general ledger.
Lien Management
Contractor liabilities in the construction industry are ever increasing. It is now critically important to equip your team with a software management tool that addresses today’s needs, and Maestro* can track your liens and waivers, minimizing financial risk on projects. Completely integrated with the subcontractors’ contract and payables modules, the Lien Management features will allow you to proactively address your risk.
Executive Dashboard
Executive dashboard is a window into the current status of your business. Using maestro*’s executive dashboard you can create many views of project and accounting information that can be accessed simultaneously. Imagine coming in each morning and reviewing the status of your business while enjoying your morning coffee or having a quick peek just before leaving for the day. Maestro*’s dashboard reports and views update automatically ensuring a consolidated real-time view of your business.
Excel Integration
Although maestro* has gone to great lengths to ensure that spreadsheets are no-longer a business management requirement, we respect the fact that users still feel more comfortable knowing that they have access to this tool. Maestro* offers one-click access to Microsoft Excel virtually everywhere throughout our application. Information transferred to Excel through maestro* is pre-formatted and ready to be used (numbers are numbers, dates are dates and so on). Year-end details can be easily provided to your auditors in Excel format. Whatever your needs, accessing details from within maestro* is as easy as a point and click.
Document & Contact Management
Finally, a document management and scheduling solution to help you coordinate the many documents produced for each job. Exclusive to maestro*, our electronic document management module is fully integrated throughout all other modules. Drawings, site directives, meeting minutes, daily diaries and many other documents can be stored and organized within maestro*, creating a virtual job book that can be accessed from anywhere you can access maestro*. For example, a shop drawing linked to a requisition could be sent with an order. It will then be accessible from the requisition, order, project and even the related suppliers’ file.
You can define custom document categories (using your own terminology) for projects, customers, suppliers, contracts, employees, etc. Help shield yourself against future claims by being able to reproduce all communications (e-mail, fax, etc.) and documents for your projects, even if the project manager is no longer with your team.
Maestro* is the only software to offer this level of project management and collaboration in a fully integrated ERP software solution.
Powerful Report/Form Viewer
Everything printed from maestro* can be displayed on your screen in maestro*’s advanced report/form viewer. Instantly search reports using our powerful, built-in hypertext search engine. Send your reports and forms through the Internet via email. Maestro* automatically generates a PDF document mirroring your report or form and attaches it to your email message. Your recipients will receive an “exact” copy of the report or form that can be easily viewed using Adobe’s® free industry standard viewer. With just a click, the viewer also allows you to export the reports to Excel. Your data will be formatted and ready to use. Exclusive to maestro*, our report/form viewer even allows you to select groups and columns for viewing or change the sorting order in real-time. This feature is available even for standard system reports.
Report/Form Generators
The maestro* report generators are powerful tools that will allow you to create a wide range of reports from the simplest listings to the most sophisticated analysis.
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