Essential’s Store Development Module helps manage and control the construction and build out process. It provides asset management and planned/unplanned maintenance. It manages the procurement of goods and services, control of construction and other budgets, purchase orders, goods receipt, payments and integration with your financial systems.

Provides the retailer with the tools to establish budgets and track critical dates. It provides them with sophisticated tools to monitor performance against budget.

Manage all contractors on a project. Help manage the relationship with anyone from the General Contractor, the Architect(s), the Drywall contractor right through to the Attorney’s. It will keep track of goods and services consumed, produce purchase orders and link with financial systems.

Manage all of the projects document. They can be stored electronically. They are then available to any authorized user for the life of the property. No more looking for the HVAC schematics for your Santa Monica Store.

Request bids from qualified suppliers and evaluate the responses.

Establish your selection criteria, gather and evaluate information.

Make sure that you receive all your tenant improvement allowances on time.

Cost Management.

Cost Management including cost estimating and budgeting. Multiple budgets are provided for as well as a variety of comparisons. For example, initial budgets against final budgets, final budgets against actual payments, purchase orders against final budget and so on.

Procurement Management.

Procurement Management including purchasing and approvals management. Goods and services can be set up as contract items, as preferred items together with agreed prices to make sure that these goods and services are purchased from the appropriate vendor and the agreed upon price.

Integrated with Accounting.

Purchase orders and goods receipts generate transactions that can be uploaded into the retailers back end financial systems. This can be done to eliminate double handling of transactions.

Vendor Administration.

Including pricing requests, authorization management and Purchase Requisitions / Orders. Vendors are established within the system, who to deal with, what to purchase from from which vendor as well as the production of Purchase Requests and Purchase Orders based upon this information.