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Projects are Groups of Jobs under 1 Project.

 

There are two distinct types of Projects - Group Projects and Warehouse Projects.

 

Group Projects are simply a way of grouping Jobs together from a financial point of view and to make managing related Jobs simpler. In essence, they act as a Job Book holding multiple jobs where common information can be shared - such as the overall profit.

 

Warehouse Projects add to this using a concept called the Virtual Warehouse (Patent Pending) and have their own equipment handling pages. As well as having the shared job-based information, they also have the facilities to manage normal Warehouse Operations for just the equipment on the Project.

 

To better understand what a Virtual Warehouse is, it is easiest to give an example.

 

Consider a large show at a convention hall where you are likely to have a large number of customers. Traditionally the show would be managed by creating jobs from the nearest sites and using the availability of equipment from the nearest site to say what is available.

 

A better solution is the Virtual Warehouse - which is a temporary Warehouse where its basic stock is shipped in from one or more Sites or Warehouses into a local store at the venue and then Jobs book out of this Virtually stocked Warehouse. This gives much better stock control as it allows you to see what is available at the show site. For instance if you took 100 flip charts to show from say 3 Warehouses and they were being hired for short sessions you can instantly see the current and future availability of flip charts during the show period. This would be almost impossible to do otherwise as you would need to sum the availability from the three sourcing sites and somehow compensate for delivery and collection times from each of those Warehouses to work out if you could rent out a flip chart the next day.

 

Another example where Virtual Warehouses have proved useful was for the supply of hand held two way radios at sporting events where a large number of these were shipped in a container on site and then jobs were created and booked using equipment from this container. As the movement of the radios out and back was so fast, traditional methods of booking from a remote warehouse could not cope as the availability rarely reflected what was actually available out on site.