Construction Cost Codes

Tenna Construction Cost Codes streamlines how contractors capture, categorize and analyze equipment‑related costs across projects. It centralizes cost code setup and usage, ties activity and maintenance to the right codes, and surfaces real‑time spend visibility for accurate job costing. By aligning field data with accounting structures, it improves forecasting, budget control and decision‑making across mixed fleets and multiple jobsites.

Features

• Centralized cost code catalog with standardized naming, hierarchy and permissions
• Quick assignment of equipment activity, maintenance and transfers to relevant cost codes
• Role‑based dashboards showing spend, variance and utilization by code, project and asset
• Flexible mappings to project phases, tasks and work breakdown structures
• Bulk editing and import tools to roll out cost codes across projects and fleets
• Audit trails capturing who changed what and when for full financial traceability

Capabilities

• Real‑time cost capture from field logs, inspections, work orders and telematics events
• Automatic distribution of costs to jobs, phases and tasks based on configured rules
• Drill‑down reporting from company‑level views to specific assets and time periods
• Variance detection against budgets and historical benchmarks for each code
• Support for multi‑company, multi‑project environments with consistent governance
• Data export and reconciliation to accounting and ERP systems for month‑end close

Benefits

• More accurate job costing and bid rates through precise, standardized cost attribution
• Improved budget control with early visibility into overruns at code and project level
• Reduced administrative effort by automating cost distribution and reconciliations
• Stronger profitability by identifying high‑cost activities and underperforming assets
• Faster financial reporting with cleaner data and fewer manual adjustments
• Better collaboration between field, shop and finance through a unified cost framework