Materials

Master supply catalog for the project. Changes here sync with the budget and vice versa.

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Automating the construction supplies catalog with artificial intelligence

The AI supplies catalog brings materials, equipment, labor, haulage, and subcontracts for the construction project into a single source, with codes, units, and prices that feed budgets, APUs, purchasing, and inventory. Several people update the same catalog in the cloud, from any internet-connected device, with a trail of who changed a price or a description. CoPres automates the initial data entry—when you generate the budget or import Excel and PDF—so your team can focus on matching references, negotiating, and deciding.

More about automating the project supplies catalog with AI

Benefits

A living catalog connected to the budget, APUs, purchase invoices, and project inventory.
Simultaneous cloud collaboration: the team matches codes and prices at the same time, with roles and a per-user history.
Fewer duplicates: one reference per supply is reflected in line items, purchases, and cost control.

Benefits of automating the supplies catalog with AI

When you generate the budget with AI, the catalog is built from the supplies in each APU, already with the unit and price for the job’s country.
Import lists from Excel or PDF: AI recognizes descriptions, normalizes units, and proposes codes so you do not retype the master list.
When steel or cement changes, the impact reaches APUs and the budget without recapturing every line by hand.
It standardizes names and units while the team collaborates on one cloud catalog, ready for purchasing and management.

Automated supplies catalog in CoPres

Construction supplies catalog connected to the budget in CoPres

From the budget to the supplies master

CoPres automates the catalog from the APUs of the budget generated or imported with AI: materials, equipment, and crews come in with code, unit, and price. It is 100% cloud, with no install, for contractors of any size. Founded in 2013 in Bogotá, CoPres brings supplies, APUs, and purchasing into one environment.

One reference for the whole job

Loose spreadsheets multiply the same cement under three different names. CoPres answers with a cloud master: what is used in the APU is what is ordered, invoiced, and inventoried, with a history of who changed the price.

Connected to purchasing and costs

When you automate the catalog you immediately connect it to invoices, inventory, and cost control. Every purchase is checked against the approved reference, and leadership sees the impact of the actual price versus the budgeted one.

From data entry to matching

AI removes the initial load of the master list and leaves the team the decision to merge duplicates, adjust units, and set agreed prices. On jobs with hundreds of references, that frees hours of estimating-office time.

Built for cost teams

Ideal when several jobs share purchasing criteria. Versus Excel, CoPres offers a single catalog, per-user audit trails, and prices that travel into the budget. Register free at www.sistemacopres.com and invite the team.