What are the differences between EMIR and BOSS?
A06. While EMIR and BOSS are similar packages there are some significant differences which make them applicable to different types of Electro-Mechanical repair and servicing. EMIR is an ‘after the fact’ job costing system which means that costs are typically recorded after they are done, as opposed to live capture. For example, EMIR can use Timesheet labour costing to capture the labour costs from a previous day, whereas BOSS will capture labour costs live by asking Engineers to log on and off jobs as they actually repair items. EMIR produces one invoice per job, as each job is unique and is costed individually, and the invoice will describe the work carried out in detail, whereas BOSS will produce an invoice that contains multiple jobs grouped by part number, with no need to describe the repair work carried out as it is designed for a fixed price repair environment where a contract is already established to repair part ‘x’ for price ‘y’ every time one is received. This is why EMIR is
