Customer Testimonials

What are others saying about the Cost Calculator?

Gary Kosel, Controller at Panel Specialists, Inc.

"Cost Calculator's ability to pull together sales order revenue, estimated and actual costs all in one place makes it a great reporting tool.  The ability to drill down to actual job order material and labor detail, make it an even better analysis tool.  No more "toggling" back-and-forth in M2M windows."

Tony Gionti, Purchasing Manager at AZO, Inc.

"Due to cut-backs at our facility, we really don’t have any power-users here anymore. We have concentrated on doing things more efficiently and the Cost Calculator will help us in doing this."

Patrick Paro, Operations Manager at Del Packaging, Ltd.

"Thank you for writing such a straight forward and easy to use program. You've distilled the tracking of estimates and costs to where it makes logical sense and automated it beautifully.  The Cost Calculator enables us to evaluate our jobs in real-time as they are in progress as well as report finished jobs against our sales order estimates.  The indented layout of the sales orders and jobs is much easier to view than the standard product.  I'm so glad to have found a program that I don't have to be an accountant or programmer to use. Your program and your excellent support are very much appreciated!"

Matt Collins, COO of Lewis Engineering, Inc.

"Prior to purchasing the Cost Calculator from Progressive Edge, we used a customized job order variance report and pivot tables.  Not only did the Cost Calculator increase cost analysis productivity by 400%, it addressed our split order reporting and opened the door to timely and accurate product profitability information.  We are looking forward to future PE products that turn our M2M data into easily accessible information.

Mike Disabato, VP of Engineering at Anguil Environmental

"The Cost Calculator is a one click tool that quickly shows the overall project status, while still allowing the flexibility to drill down and see where our actual cost have migrated from our estimated costs.  No matter how far along we are in the project."

Amber Hardin, MIS Manager at TracStar Systems

"Cost Calculator has provided us with a one stop shop for cleaning up Job Order’s in order to complete our month end close accurately and on time. We definitely recommend this tool."

Mike Hedensten, Sr. Accountant at Vapor Technologies, Inc.

"In the short time of using the PE Cost Calculator it has allowed our staff to begin understanding the applied job costs in a more detailed manner and quickly identify cost over runs within specific levels of our BOM’s.  Also the added benefit using the “Job View [Multi]” is that it is easy to see the BOM tree structure versus the standard M2M system reports and BOM screens."

Mike Bolin, Chief Financial Officer at MultiCam L.P.

"Finally a program that pulls all M2M Job Costing information together and places it at your finger tips.  Why couldn't M2M do this?"

Gloria Dyok, Business Systems Analyst at CPI Malibu Division

"Easily pulling out the actual costs for a multi-level subassembly part buried in the middle of a much larger job bill of material, has given us more visibility on what that subassembly part actually cost to build.  The Calculated Actual Costs enhancement will definitely assist in our project Estimates to Complete."

Richard Keller, Manufacturing Analyst at Elmar Industries, Inc.

"We discovered Progressive Edge in the early M2M implementation process to do VB customizations. We found Ken to be more accessible and cost effective than working with the M2M customization group.

We then purchased the Cost Calculator and found it to work as advertised. I use it daily to set standard cost and pricing structures. With over 80,000 item masters and the large labor variances that we find in the engineer to order environment, it provides the visibility I need to weed out the bad records. A great time saver."