Creating Production Rate Calculators will help you store production rate information so that your estimators are consistent in using the same labor hours and rates.
How Do I Create a Production Calculator?
- Click the Item Catalog menu in LMN (left-hand menu)
- Click the Prod Rates sub-menu
- Click New to create your first production rate calculator
- Now you need to give your production rate calculator a name (e.g. Planting Calculator).
- Next, you want to add Tasks your calculator. Each task has a name, units of measure and a standard installation rate. Here are some examples:
Note: these are all random examples of tasks and wouldn't all be included in the same Production Rate Calculator.
- Task Name: Install 1G Plant
- Units of Measure: each
- Install Rate: 10 / man hour
- Task Name: Install 5G Plant
- Units of Measure: each
- Install Rate: 5 / man hour
- Task Name: Excavate + Dispose 12"
- Units of Measure: sq. feet
- Install Rate: 50 sq. ft / man hour
- Task Name: Mowing w/ Zero Turn - 60" Deck
- Units of Measure: sq. feet
- Install Rate: 120,000 sq. feet/man hour
- Task Name: Trimming
- Units of Measure: lin. feet
- Install Rate: 9,000 lin. ft/man hour
- Task Name: Install 3" Mulch (wheelbarrow)
- Units of Measure: sq. feet
- Install Rate: 160 sq. ft/man hours
Finally, use the ORDER column to put the tasks in a logical order from start to finish.
See the screenshot below for an example of a completed Production Rate Calculator (the example below is a bed planting calculator).
Using A Production Rate Calculator
- Create a new standard or service estimate
- Anytime you add a labor item to an estimate, a calculator button will appear
- Click the calculator button to open a Production Rate Calculator
- Choose your production rate calculator from your list hint: you can use the SEARCH if you have a big list
- Enter the measurements according to your rate calculator. The production rates will already be filled out for you.
- You can adjust your production rates if this job is harder/easier than your average job
- The LMN Production Rate Calculator will calculate a total time, which you can round up (optionally)
- Click UPDATE ESTIMATE to set your labor item to the hours calculated by the production rate calculator.
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