Use cases
The jobs that come round every month on a construction project
Commercial control is not one task. It is a handful of recurring jobs — closing the month, keeping the coding straight, chasing subcontract cost, explaining a forecast that moved, and keeping management costs from drifting out of view.
Each page below takes one of those jobs, describes how it usually goes, and shows what Foras does today to support it. For the broader capability view, see the solutions.
Month-end cost reportingThe close comes round every month and the pack is usually assembled under pressure. What it takes to report a cost position you can stand behind.Cost code and WBS trackingCoding drifts, Finance rows will not map and cost ends up Unassigned. Keeping a cost structure that still works in month nine.Subcontractor cost trackingSubcontract cost lands late and rarely matches what the site knows was done. Tracking it against the cost structure and the forecast.Explaining forecast movement“Why has it gone up?” is the hardest question of the month. Attributing period-to-period movement to something you can point at.Management cost trackingStaff, supervision and site overheads are often carried in a side spreadsheet. Recording them against budget lines so they reach the position.
Bring the job that costs you the most time
Use your own cost codes and a recent month-end pack. We’ll walk the same project through capture, position, reconciliation and forecast.