Job Management Costing (JMC)

Job Management and Costing (JMC) is a suite of activity-based financial management and forecasting tools that integrates seamlessly into TIMS.

JMC functionality includes:

• budget forecasting
• budget management by function/cost center
• materials management
• final payments approval
• management of adjustments, credits, holdbacks, etc.
• calculation and authorization of royalty payments
• integration of cost codes and chart of accounts with the corporate financial system
• invoice management and reconciliation
• reporting
• interfaces with corporate financials
• integration with wood supply for receipt of scale ticket information
• contractor management
• name and contact information
• equipment/capabilities
• rates (by equipment or unit categories)
• areas of operations
• current equipment allocation
• certifications (training, etc.)

Best Management Practices (BMP)

BMP provides an organization with the means to manage its business practices and policies inside the TIMS database. These practices, policies, or rules (e.g., regulations, environmental guidelines, productivity practices, etc.) are then applied to the database to create and modify new objects or schedule new events.


Our BMP tools:

• "manage" the management practices/rules in database tables
• read and interpret the management practice from the BMP tables
• schedule events based on the management practice
• create new database objects based on the management practice.

The BMP engine can automate most of the standardized operations in the forest lifecycle. The BMP engine applies management practices to generate events and objects that are good candidates for review by the forester.

BMP frees the forester from the tedious task of manually searching the database to ensure that the management practices have been used.