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while you can still do something about it.
Project costing software tracks budget, committed cost and actual cost against every cost code on a job, in real time. QZ Infomatics configures it on Odoo, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Oracle NetSuite for contractors, manufacturers and facility management companies across the UAE and GCC, with budgets linked directly to the bill of quantities.
The problem
Not because nobody is counting, but because the counting happens in three places and only meets once a month.
By the time the cost report is assembled the money is spent and the package is closed. You are reporting history, not steering a job.
Approved LPOs and subcontracts sit outside the budget until an invoice arrives, so a cost code looks healthy while it is already overspent.
Overheads absorbed at company level, plant treated as a fixed cost, labour costed to a department. The number at the bottom is a guess.
Capability
Six things, configured as standard on whichever platform you run. None of this should be custom development.
The priced bill imported line by line and mapped to cost codes, so budget and scope share one source.
A work breakdown structure the whole business posts against, from procurement to payroll to plant.
An LPO or subcontract consumes budget the moment it is approved, not when the invoice eventually arrives.
Budget, committed, actual and remaining recalculated on every posting, so the end position moves as the job does.
Variation orders raised, approved and valued against the same BOQ as the original scope, with their own budget line.
Certified revenue against cost to date, per job and across the portfolio, without a spreadsheet consolidation.
End to end
Every step below posts to a cost code. That single discipline is what turns a monthly report into a live number.
Imported line by line and mapped to cost codes. No re-keying, and no parallel budget file that drifts from the contract.
Budget, committed and actual, live. This is the change that makes an overrun visible in week three instead of month three.
Purchase orders and subcontracts consume budget at approval, with a budget check that blocks the ones that would not fit.
Procurement →Goods received, hours booked and plant hire all post to the cost code that consumed them, not to a department.
Site inventory →Remaining budget against remaining scope, updated on every posting, so the projected outturn is never a month old.
Valued work from the same BOQ lands against cost to date, producing a live margin per job and across the portfolio.
Revenue recognition →Platform
The capability is similar on all three. What differs is cost, entity structure and how much configuration it takes to get there.
Analytic accounting gives you cost codes and committed cost without custom development. For a contractor under 100 users this is where project costing usually lands.
Job costing is native rather than configured, and the Excel and Power BI path out of it is the shortest of the three for a finance team that lives in Microsoft 365.
Worth it when project cost has to consolidate across several entities and currencies into one group position without a monthly rebuild.
Not sure which fits? The platform comparison puts all four against cost, user count and consolidation. Try the fit finder →
Who runs on it
Project costing is not only a contracting module. Anywhere cost has to follow a job rather than a department, the same discipline applies.
Frequently asked questions
Project costing software tracks budget, committed cost and actual cost against every cost code on a job, and recalculates the forecast at completion as postings arrive. It replaces the monthly cost report assembled in a spreadsheet with a live position, so an overrun becomes visible while there is still scope to act on it.
They describe the same discipline at different scales. Job costing usually means tracking cost against a discrete order, common in manufacturing and service work. Project costing adds a work breakdown structure, committed cost, progressive valuation and forecast at completion, because a construction project runs for months and is billed in stages rather than on delivery.
Yes. The priced bill of quantities is imported and mapped to cost codes, and those cost codes form the work breakdown structure that procurement, stores, payroll and plant all post against. Keeping budget and scope on one structure is what makes the reporting trustworthy. Construction ERP.
Yes. Remaining budget is measured against remaining scope and recalculated on every posting, so the projected outturn moves with the job rather than being rebuilt monthly. This is the number most contractors say they want and most systems deliver a month late.
Yes. We integrate the programme in P6 with cost in the ERP against the same WBS, so progress, earned value and cost sit on one structure. Planners keep working in P6 and finance stops re-keying. Construction project management.
Odoo, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations and Oracle NetSuite. Odoo suits contractors under 100 users, Finance & Operations suits teams already in Microsoft 365, and NetSuite earns its cost once project cost has to consolidate across several entities. Because we implement all three, the recommendation follows your requirements. Compare the platforms.
Project costing on its own, for a single entity, is typically live in six to ten weeks including BOQ and cost-code migration. As part of a full ERP implementation it sits inside the usual eight to twelve week timeline. Both are quoted at a fixed price before build work starts. ERP implementation.
Talk to a consultant
Book a free 30 minute call with QZ Infomatics in Dubai. You will leave it with a platform recommendation, the reasoning behind it, a realistic timeline and an indicative budget band — before you commit to anything.
