# ERP Infra

> ERP Infra is construction ERP software by Flip Retail: purchase, stock, labour, machinery, daily reports, costing and client billing in one system.

ERP Infra is made by Flip Retail (https://flipretail.in), based in Jaipur, India. Now in pilot with construction firms.
It works in a web browser at the office and in a phone browser at site.
It does not replace accounting software, file statutory returns or run permanent-staff payroll.

## Problems it solves

- [Material leakage](https://erpinfra.com/problems/material-leakage/): Material goes missing between the store, the site and the work. Average consumption per unit of work is the yardstick. Anything issued above it is tracked as leakage.
- [Purchase price](https://erpinfra.com/problems/purchase-price/): Parties are compared on the quoted rate, not the real landed price. The price comparator ranks every quotation on landed cost, per item, with the last rate paid beside it.
- [Supplier bills](https://erpinfra.com/problems/supplier-bills/): Short deliveries, over-billing and duplicate bills slip through. Ordered, received, billed and paid are matched automatically. A bill that does not match is held.
- [Labour and contractor bills](https://erpinfra.com/problems/labour-and-contractor-bills/): Attendance is on paper, and contractor bills are argued every month. Attendance on a phone, locked on submit. The bill is computed from it, with the contractor’s claim beside it.
- [Diesel and machine hours](https://erpinfra.com/problems/diesel-and-machine-hours/): Diesel and machine hours leak without anyone noticing. Readings carry over automatically. Diesel per hour is compared with normal, and any jump is flagged.
- [Cost overruns](https://erpinfra.com/problems/cost-overruns/): Site cost is known weeks later, when the bills finally arrive. Every cost lands on its site the same day. Budget, committed, actual and balance on one screen.
- [Money owed to you](https://erpinfra.com/problems/delayed-payments/): The work is done, but nobody can say what each site is owed. Bills raised per site, with claimed, certified, received and outstanding side by side, and retention due for release.
- [Daily progress report](https://erpinfra.com/problems/daily-progress-report/): The daily report takes a day to compile and is stale by morning. The daily report writes itself from site entries, costed and with photos, the same evening.

## Modules

- Purchase: Requirement, quotations, price comparator, order, receipt and bill check.
- Stores and stock: Received at the project store, sent to sites, transferred between sites, consumed on work.
- Material reconciliation: What was bought, what was used, what is left, and whether the usage was justified.
- Labour and contractors: Contracts, labour records, locked daily attendance and contractor bills.
- Plant and machinery: Machine hours, kilometres, diesel, operator cost and hire charges.
- Daily progress report: Work done, manpower, machinery, material, photos and videos, costed automatically.
- Costing: Cost per project and per site, against budget.
- Client billing: Bills raised per site: what was certified, what was received, what is outstanding.
- Project schedule: The plan set at project level, tracked against actual progress.
- Drawings: Uploaded during planning, revision-controlled, seen as per access rights.
- Activity log: Every action recorded, who did it and when, on a trail nobody can alter.

## Who it is for

- [Civil contractors](https://erpinfra.com/for/civil-contractors/): ERP Infra for civil contractors: material, labour, machinery and bills checked against the work done on every site, with cost per site the same day.
- [Builders and developers](https://erpinfra.com/for/builders-and-developers/): ERP Infra for builders and developers: control what each building costs to construct, from purchase and stock to contractor bills and budget against actual.
- [Road and infrastructure contractors](https://erpinfra.com/for/road-and-infrastructure-contractors/): ERP Infra for road and infrastructure contractors: machine hours, diesel, hire bills, client bills and retention tracked per site.
- [MEP and specialist contractors](https://erpinfra.com/for/mep-and-specialist-contractors/): ERP Infra for MEP, electrical and specialist contractors: many small sites, high-value material and stage payments, tracked in one system.
- [Small construction companies](https://erpinfra.com/for/small-construction-companies/): ERP Infra for small construction companies: start with one project as a pilot, replace the register and the spreadsheet, and see cost per site every day.

## Comparisons

- [Construction ERP vs spreadsheets](https://erpinfra.com/compare/construction-erp-vs-spreadsheets/): Spreadsheets are enough for one or two sites run by one person. They stop working when several sites report separately, because nothing links the store, the attendance sheet and the bills, and nothing stops a figure being changed afterwards.
- [Construction ERP vs generic ERP](https://erpinfra.com/compare/construction-erp-vs-generic-erp/): A general-purpose ERP is organised around departments, warehouses and finished products. A construction company is organised around projects and sites, where material is consumed into work, not sold. A construction ERP has that structure built in; a general ERP has to be customised to imitate it.
- [Construction ERP vs accounting software](https://erpinfra.com/compare/construction-erp-vs-accounting-software/): They do different jobs, and most contractors need both. Accounting software records money once a bill exists. A construction ERP records what happens on site each day (material issued, labour present, machine hours, work done) and checks each bill against it before it is paid.

## Free calculators

- [Cement leakage calculator](https://erpinfra.com/tools/cement-leakage-calculator/): Enter the concrete poured, your cement content per cubic metre and the bags issued. See how many bags the work cannot account for and what they cost.
- [Steel wastage calculator](https://erpinfra.com/tools/steel-wastage-calculator/): Compare the steel your bar bending schedule needs with the steel issued. See the excess in kilograms, as a percentage, and what it costs.
- [Diesel consumption calculator](https://erpinfra.com/tools/diesel-consumption-calculator/): Enter a machine’s hours worked, its normal litres per hour and the diesel issued. See the litres over normal, the percentage and the cost.

## Glossary

- [Landed cost](https://erpinfra.com/glossary/landed-cost/): Landed cost is what a material costs by the time it reaches your store: the quoted price plus freight, loading, insurance, taxes and duties, less any discount. It is the figure quotations should be compared on, because the lowest quoted rate is often not the cheapest delivered.
- [Retention money](https://erpinfra.com/glossary/retention-money/): Retention money is a share of each payment that the client holds back as security that the contractor will finish the work and fix defects. It is often between 5% and 10% of each bill, and is released at completion or at the end of the defect liability period.
- [Daily progress report (DPR)](https://erpinfra.com/glossary/daily-progress-report/): A daily progress report is the record of one day on a construction project: the work done against each activity, labour on site by trade and contractor, machines deployed and their hours, material received and used, and photos. It is the base record for progress, cost and disputes.
- [Material reconciliation](https://erpinfra.com/glossary/material-reconciliation/): Material reconciliation compares the material a project received and issued with the material the completed work should have used. The difference, after an allowed wastage, is unexplained loss. It is done per material, usually for cement, steel, aggregates and other high-value items.
- [Bill of quantities (BOQ)](https://erpinfra.com/glossary/bill-of-quantities/): A bill of quantities is a list of every item of work in a construction project, each with a description, a unit, a quantity and a rate. Contractors price it to tender, and during the job it is the basis for measuring work done and raising bills.
- [Committed cost](https://erpinfra.com/glossary/committed-cost/): Committed cost is money you have already promised to spend but have not yet been billed for: purchase orders placed, work orders issued, machines on hire. Budget minus actual cost minus committed cost is the true balance left on a project.
- [Budget versus actual](https://erpinfra.com/glossary/budget-vs-actual/): Record each cost against the site and the budget head on the day it happens: labour from attendance, machines from daily logs, material from what the store issued. Compare the running total, plus orders already placed, with the budget for the work completed so far.
- [Three-way matching](https://erpinfra.com/glossary/three-way-matching/): Three-way matching means checking a supplier’s bill against two other records before paying it: the purchase order, which shows what was agreed, and the goods received note, which shows what actually arrived. A bill is paid only when rate and quantity agree across all three.
- [Comparative statement of quotations](https://erpinfra.com/glossary/comparative-statement/): A comparative statement lays out the quotations received for a purchase side by side, item by item, so the buyer can see which supplier is cheapest for each item and overall. A sound one compares landed cost, payment terms and delivery time, not only the quoted rate.
- [Goods received note (GRN)](https://erpinfra.com/glossary/goods-received-note/): A goods received note is the store’s record of what a supplier actually delivered: the item, the quantity counted or weighed, the date, the vehicle and the purchase order it belongs to. It is the proof of receipt that a supplier’s bill is later checked against.
- [Material requisition (indent)](https://erpinfra.com/glossary/material-requisition/): A material requisition, also called an indent, is the site’s formal request for material: what is needed, how much, for which work and by when. It starts the purchase process and is the record that a purchase was actually asked for by the site.
- [Purchase order](https://erpinfra.com/glossary/purchase-order/): A construction purchase order should state the supplier, each item with specification, quantity, unit and rate, taxes and freight terms, the delivery site and date, payment terms, and the approval behind it. It is the agreed record that deliveries and bills are later checked against.
- [Running account bill (RA bill)](https://erpinfra.com/glossary/running-account-bill/): An RA bill, or running account bill, is an interim bill a contractor raises for the work completed so far, usually monthly. The client measures and certifies the work, deducts retention, advances and earlier payments, and pays the balance. The final bill closes the account.
- [Muster roll](https://erpinfra.com/glossary/muster-roll/): A muster roll is the daily attendance record of workers on a site: who was present, their trade, the contractor they work for and the hours or shifts worked. Wages and labour contractors’ bills are calculated from it.
- [Defect liability period](https://erpinfra.com/glossary/defect-liability-period/): The defect liability period is a set time after completion, often six to twenty-four months, during which the contractor must return and fix defects at their own cost. Part of the retention money is usually held until it ends.
- [Variation order](https://erpinfra.com/glossary/variation-order/): A variation order is a formal instruction that changes the contracted work: adding, removing or altering items after the contract is signed. It should record the changed quantity, the agreed rate and the effect on time, so the extra work can be billed.
- [Wastage allowance](https://erpinfra.com/glossary/wastage-allowance/): A wastage allowance is the extra material, as a percentage, that a contractor accepts will be lost to cutting, breakage, spillage and handling. It differs by material and by firm; what matters is fixing a figure for each material and measuring actual use against it.
- [Cement consumption per cubic metre](https://erpinfra.com/glossary/cement-consumption-per-cubic-metre/): It depends on the concrete grade and mix design. Structural concrete commonly uses roughly 300 to 450 kg of cement per cubic metre, which is about 6 to 9 bags of 50 kg. Take the figure from your approved mix design, then use it as the standard to measure actual issues against.
- [Fuel consumption per hour](https://erpinfra.com/glossary/fuel-consumption-per-hour/): Divide the litres of diesel issued to a machine by the hours it worked, taken from its hour meter, to get litres per hour. Compare that with the same machine’s normal figure for the same kind of work. A sudden rise points to a fault, idling, or fuel leaving the site.
- [Construction ERP](https://erpinfra.com/glossary/construction-erp/): Construction ERP software is a single system that runs a construction company’s projects: buying material, managing stores and stock, recording labour and machines, reporting daily progress, tracking cost against budget and billing the client. It replaces the registers, spreadsheets and message groups those records usually live in.

## Locations

ERP Infra is web-based and used remotely. City pages with sourced local construction facts: Abu Dhabi, Ahmedabad, Auckland, Bangkok, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Cairo, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Colombo, Dehradun, Delhi, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Dublin, Gurugram, Guwahati, Ho Chi Minh City, Houston, Hyderabad, Indore, Istanbul, Jaipur, Jakarta, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Kochi, Kolkata, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait City, Lagos, London, Los Angeles, Lucknow, Manchester, Manila, Melbourne, Mumbai, Muscat, Nagpur, Nairobi, Nashik, Navi Mumbai, New York, Noida, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Riyadh, Singapore, Surat, Sydney, Thane, Toronto, Vadodara, Visakhapatnam. Index: https://erpinfra.com/construction-erp/

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