Vista-Suite allows users to record labor against work orders, sales orders, stock lines, inventory pools, or even as standalone general tasks, bypassing the restrictions imposed by traditional ERP platforms. This flexibility means that labor can be tracked in any operational context, from inspecting incoming parts to repacking inventory or calibrating tools, which are activities that historically required inefficient workarounds in other software systems. Labor can be entered directly via web browser or the Vista-Suite Enterprise mobile app for frictionless time recording from anywhere. This approach allows businesses to maintain accurate cost records across departments without forcing unrelated activities into work order structures that don’t apply.

Each labor entry in Vista-Suite Enterprise can be marked as billable or non-billable, allowing you to distinguish between internal overhead activities and labor that should be invoiced to customers. This critical but straightforward classification gives finance and operations teams a reliable way to analyze labor efforts so that labor-based costs are recovered appropriately. By incorporating this at the time of entry, the system eliminates the need for retroactive corrections and provides clarity when auditing labor costs across different transaction types.

Other aviation ERP software systems require users to fabricate work orders or create special administrative indicators just to log general labor or record time spent on activities not tied to a job. Vista-Suite Enterprise eliminates this problem by supporting direct labor entries through a dedicated labor tracking module that functions independently of the work order system. Whether time is spent sweeping the hangar, performing inspections, or managing inventory, users can log hours accurately.

To reduce data entry errors and promote consistency, Vista-Suite Enterprise provides a “Common Activities” function to define pre-set labor activity types that can be reused across the system. Users can quickly select a predefined activity when logging labor to help standardize labor reporting. This feature is particularly valuable in high-volume environments where routine labor is recorded regularly and must be categorized consistently for internal analysis or billing purposes.

Vista-Suite Enterprise provides the capability to directly assign labor costs and other charges, such as crate-building or special handling fees, to individual inventory records. These charges update the inventory’s cost basis immediately and are logged in its audit record. This enables organizations to include otherwise overlooked operational costs in their cost-of-goods sold, improving accuracy in financial reporting and profitability analysis. Other systems will force such charges to remain in overhead accounts, misrepresenting the true cost of specific inventory items.

Labor recording in Vista-Suite Enterprise is not siloed; rather, it is embedded across relevant system workflows, including work orders, sales orders, and inventory management. This tight integration means that labor capture becomes a natural part of users’ daily tasks rather than a separate, burdensome step. With entry points throughout the system and support for both mobile and desktop use, Vista-Suite Enterprise enables labor data to be captured when and where it happens.

Administrators can create custom dashboards to provide high-level or detailed views of labor activity across the organization. These visuals help teams monitor labor utilization, track billable time, and identify bottlenecks in real-time. Rather than waiting for end-of-week reports, teams can act on labor trends as they happen for faster decisions and tighter control over time management.

Recognizing that aviation MROs vary widely in how they structure their shop floor, Vista-Suite Enterprise gives users the flexibility to assign labor, equipment, and material costs directly to a work order job or to individual tasks within that job. This dual-structure design lets companies maintain simple job-level tracking or take a more granular task-based approach depending on their internal processes. Unlike systems that force users to create unnecessary sub-tasks to align with rigid system rules, Vista-Suite Enterprise respects the diversity of operational workflows in the aviation sector.