JOBSCOPE Review - why 4.3 stars?

Shlomi Lavi / updated: Jul 15, 2022

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What is JOBSCOPE?

JOBSCOPE Project ERP is a project manufacturing software that can help users to ensure that all the operations are scheduled accurately according to actual plant capacity and customer requirements. The software comes with all the required ERP software modules including production BOM, CRM, engineering BOM, estimating and quoting and more. The software also comes with built-in integration to CAD packages.

JOBSCOPE, the developers of JOBSCOPE Project ERP, has been providing ERP software and manufacturing software for over 30 years. They are popular for providing software and solutions for job-based manufacturing companies and can help manufacturing companies of various sizes.

Who is it best for?

JOBSCOPE Project ERP is great for companies of all sizes that are looking for enterprise resource planning solutions, whether it’s a large Engineer to Order Manufacturer or just a small or medium size Make to Order manufacturing company or Job Shop.

Government contractors, aerospace and defense, Maintenance Repair and Overhaul, Make to Order, Engineer to Order and Job Shop companies usually use this software. West-Mark, Hamilton Sundstrand and Consarc Corporation are some of the clients of JOBSCOPE Project ERP.

Main features and functionalities

JOBSCOPE Project ERP comes with estimating and quote, production BOM, shop floor control, financials, field service scheduling, purchasing analysis, bar code data collection, field service reporting, CRM, estimating and quoting, production scheduling, order analysis, reporting, inventory and KPI dashboard. Users can check project costing, job costing and contract costing in real time and separately from general ledger. The solution can also suggest material purchases and dynamically runs MRP. The labor collection on the shop floor is also done automatically.

The reports of ERP software are written with Crystal Reports open source code and bills of material can be imported easily from any CAD package. You can check the linkages between work orders and change them if necessary. Assignment of routings are done automatically based on part disposition. Other notable features of JOBSCOPE Project ERP are: tracking vendor price quoting, online project MRP reporting and updating, multiple stocking locations, online entry of inspection results and quality assurance inspections.

What is the actual cost?

The cost of license starts at $3,000 per license. ITQlick pricing score is 6.4 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Access ITQlick pricing guide for JOBSCOPE. You can also find here pricing information from JOBSCOPE's website.

Pros

• JOBSCOPE Project ERP supports checking contract costing, job costing and project costing separately from GL in real time unlike other similar tools
• JOBSCOPE Project ERP solution can suggest material purchases and dynamically runs MRP
• The quality management system of JOBSCOPE Project ERP supports AS9100 and ISO9000 certified standards
• The cost breakdown feature of this ERP solution in inventory is not seen in most of the other similar ERP tools
• The ERP solution offers onsite, follow-up training to help users get the best out of this software

Cons

• JOBSCOPE Project ERP doesn’t offer any mobile dedicated app for iOS and Android users
• JOBSCOPE Project ERP doesn’t offer software as a service or online deployment options like other similar tools
• Document management feature is not available in JOBSCOPE Project ERP like other similar tools
• The ERP solution doesn’t offer much payroll management feature like other similar tools
• The ERP software doesn’t offer forecasting like other enterprise resource planning software

How it stacks up?

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