Tracking scaffold tags can be a complicated, costly process. Given the number of tags that some jobs may involve, your hands may already be full just keeping track of the structures and people involved. Keeping tabs on all the parts and pieces as they move to and from each tag can be practically impossible.

But why risk expense and costly downtime locating or replacing missing materials when you can easily manage these assets with software?

Quantify makes tracking scaffold tags at job sites easy. You can manage your inventory and services as they are applied to specific structures within a site while managing all of the other details. It's a very powerful feature that maximizes your insight into and control of product movement throughout the work cycle. And, with Quantify Web, your customers can log in and view scaffold tag reports, improving their satisfaction and your efficiency.

Working with Scaffold Tags

When viewing a Job Site with scaffold tags in Quantify, you can still see the total quantities of all products at the site in the Products tab. However, scaffold tag-based Job Sites also have the Scaffold Tags tab. Clicking on this gives you an overview of each scaffold tag at the job, with information on scaffold tag work status, order numbers, and project dates.

One extra click nets you listings of measurements, materials, or shipments relevant to the tag.

Shipping products to and from specific tags is done quickly, within the context of that tag. This allows you to easily manage the movement of materials into and out of complex scaffold jobs without risking confusion of where your assets are and how they're being used.

Quick, Easy Scaffold Tag Reports

Data collection for scaffold tags is made simple and highly customizable using Quantify's Pivot reports. Any and all details for your scaffold tags can be pulled into a report and organized to meet your needs quickly and easily.

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It’s common for scaffolding, formwork, and tools to be returned in a different condition than when you sent them to your customer. The Out of Service feature within Quantify allows items that aren’t returned, returned damaged, or damaged beyond repair to be placed Out of Service. Out of Service items are moved to an Out of Service queue until…

Continue reading our ‘Out of Service’ section of the users guide by clicking on the link below:
Out Of Service (6MB)

Avontus is now offering free training for this new release. If you haven’t received an invite for a webinar to see what great features are here, please email support@avontus.com and ask for a schedule. A recording will also be available towards the end of the week.

NEW FEATURES

• Pre-return shipment status. This is new status that allows you to create a return from a jobsite, print out reports and labels to attach to the bins, then count the materials at a later time.
• An overall rental discount can now be added to a jobsite. This discount is applied to the total rent on the invoice and synchronizes with a single line item account in QuickBooks.
• There is a new list exclusively for a driver on a shipment, which is displayed in the reports, grid, and pivots.
• Changes to users is now tracked in history and there is a permission for allowing certain roles to see this history.
• You can now prorate an estimate to make it equal a specific amount, similar to how you can prorate a shipment (Note that the global option for prorating shipments must be turned on).
• Adding a blank file named ‘disable’, without an extension, into the install folder will disable update checks and changing connection settings. This disables these two features over application hosting on the login dialog box and on the Help menu.
• The shipment filter now displays text, showing what filter is selected. Additionally, there is a new filter that allow you to limit the shipments displayed by date, such as the last 3 months.

ENHANCEMENTS

• All of the new style reports and pivot print previews now properly resize to A4 or Letter. There is a new global option for controlling this on the reports tab.
• A new permission to control whether a role can view the costs (cost, last, average) in the product catalog, product catalog reports, and pivot.
• Added 3 new custom roles that by default have no permission.
• Estimates now copy the period label and number of days from the rate profile when a rate profile is copied into estimate products.
• Similar to the discount on a job, added a discount to an estimate that applies to the total rent.
• There is a new button on the user assignment dialog box (used when location-based security is on) to select a particular branch and assign that user to all jobs under that branch.
• Improved performance and memory management within the pivots.

BUG FIXES

• Estimate report was inserting an extra page when the number of items on the estimate is a specific count, which has been fixed.
• Fixed  a fringe case for the estimate causing a crash when editing a quantity that has a factor associated with it.

Quantify 2011 allows you to track parts that are damaged, missing or scrap. This video shows you how:

http://www.avontus.com/products/quantify/videos/oos/outofservice.htm

The 2011 version of Quantify has been published to the update server. Being a major update, this version has numerous new features and enhancements.

New Features

• When returning goods you can now return damaged and missing items as well as bill for these items. There are three status', Damaged, Damaged Beyond Repair, and Lost/Scrap. The labels for these statuses are customizable in Global Options. To turn on 'Out of Service' items, edit your branch office or laydown yard and check the box for tracking these items.
• Quantify can now be used for managing small tools. The main grid can easily support the display of a million or more items, and a shipment can handle tens of thousands of serial numbers. There is also a new setting that enables servicing items upon return, via service tickets. Service tickets are used to restock items that require servicing after returning them.
• Tracking by order has been enhanced to include work orders, which are assigned to purchase orders. These purchase and work orders are represented by a treeview combobox on both the job site and scaffold tag.
• There is now the ability to subscribe to email notifications so that you can receive only the ones you want to receive. When location-based security is turned on you'll only receive notifications for the locations that you're assigned to.
• In addition to email notifications, all notifications are now saved and can be viewed in Quantify on the Notifications button on the toolbar.
• There is a new item on the File menu ('Change my notifications') that allows the user to subscribe to these notifications.
• There is a new 'Product Activity' report that shows the history of a selected part on all shipments.

Enhancements

• The digital certificate for Quantify has been updated. If you've previously synchronized with QuickBooks, or have trusted the old Avontus digital signature for some other reason, you will need to re-establish the relationship between Quantify and this product.
• The average cost for items on a transactions is now recorded at the time of the transaction. This can be seen in the transactions product pivot.
• When clicking on a corporate structure (blue node) in the treeview the total quantity is now displayed.
• Removed the cost from the 'Selected Product Quantities by Location' report since this report is available to most roles. This value is still available in the Pricing pivot.
• Added totals to 'Selected Product Quantities by Location' report
• When working in rate profile mode, you can now edit the rent rates on a shipment by checking the box in Global Options to edit the rent rate on the shipment.
• Serialized parts are now always displayed on a shipment individually. (Previously, to select a serialized part to be included you had to select a button and then check the item to be included from a list.) Now, the list is shown in line with your regular inventory, separated by a serial number. The textbox search filtering now also includes the serial number in the filter.
• If you're tracking serialized assets, the serial number for the parts is now displayed in the Shipment pivot report for the jobsite.
• Added a new note in Global Options that will appear on all shipments. This note does not appear on the return pick ticket for the jobsite, for which there is a separate note option.
• Addresses are now copied from the parent job site (or job site group) when creating a new job.
• Accounting item types are now broken out into individual charge types on the invoice. This allows for unlimited flexibility when syncing with accounting software using the Quantify API.
• We now allow the date (day) to be removed from the product history. You can drop the year and month to see totals by these ranges as well.
• The subscription for serialized part notifications has been moved from the checkbox on the user to the list of subscriptions. If you previously had this checkbox checked, you will need to edit your notifications (file menu) and re-subscribe to it.
• The starting address for the driving directions on a jobsite now defaults to the parent branch office or laydown yard shipping address.
• You can now add a serial number and stock it at a branch office from within the branch office adjustment dialog box. Before, you had to add it in the catalog, then purchase it through a transaction.
• In QuickBooks a zero invoice marked as Paid is voided. Quantify now recognizes this and properly sets the invoice to voided.
• The old product reports contained within the product catalog have been combined into the new report control, plus a new product pivot has been added that allows you to filter and move around columns to sort and group data.
• The treeviews for the customers and vendors now display the total number of customers or vendors in a status bar below the tree. Number of contacts is also displayed.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with product history exception in rare situations with an invalid stocking location.
• Made the resolution of negative job balances recognize permissions, which uses the same permission to adjust inventory at a branch office. When location-based permissions are on, user must be assigned to both the job and the branch office.
• When viewing by customer in the tree, selecting the customers now shows all of the equipment contained within the jobs for this customer.
• When creating a jobsite group on another group, the subgroup wasn't inheriting the permissions from the parent it was created from.
• Improved performance loading customers and vendors in the treeview.