Structures, sheet metal, made-to-order fabrication
Made-to-order work that still has a rate and a date.
Drawing-driven enquiries, feasibility from the works manager, job cards on the floor and committed dates that OTIF is measured against.
Per job
Specification and BOM
Committed
Dates with reasons
OTIF
Measured, not argued
In short
How does SysOMS work for fabrication plants?
Drawing-driven enquiries, feasibility from the works manager, job cards on the floor and committed dates that OTIF is measured against.
In the app
The fabrication sale, end to end
Enquiry, quotation, released order, plant and dispatch on one record, with the rules of your trade built in.
- Your items and your units
- Rates that respect your price book
- Dispatch tied to the order
Illustrative screens.
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The friction
What usually breaks in this category.
Every job is different
Nothing repeats, so quoting is a fresh estimate and the estimate is never checked against what it actually cost.
Dates promised on the phone
The commitment exists only in a conversation, so a delay has no owner.
Material issued off the record
Consumption is reconstructed at month end, badly.
How SysOMS answers it
The configuration that fixes it.
Feasibility and cost sheet
Production answers feasibility; the order carries a cost sheet and margin view before it is released.
Job cards and BOM issue
Material requirements calculated from the BOM and issued against the job card, posted to the ledger as it moves.
Commitment reporting
Committed production-complete, ready-for-dispatch and delivery dates, then OTIF against them.
The cost of the gap
What this is already costing you, unlabelled.
None of these appear as a line in your accounts. They appear as a thinner margin than the one you quoted.
Estimated
Never checked
Every job is quoted fresh and no one compares the estimate with what the job actually consumed, so the same underquote repeats.
Verbal
Promised dates
A commitment that exists only in a phone call has no owner when it slips, and the customer hears it from you late.
Month end
Reconstructed issue
Material issued off the record is added up badly at month end, which is when the margin surprise arrives.
The governed line
How one order moves through this category.
01
Enquiry
Sales Officer
Drawing and scope attached to the enquiry, not sitting in a personal inbox.
02
Feasibility
Works Manager
Process route, cost sheet and earliest date returned before the quote.
03
Quotation
Sales Head
Margin visible on the cost sheet at the moment of quoting, not after.
04
Job card
Shop Floor
BOM issue against the job card, posted to the ledger as material moves.
05
Delivery
Sales Admin
Committed production, ready and delivery dates, then OTIF measured against them.
Straight answers
What owners in this category ask us first.
Nothing repeats here. Is templated specification useful?
The template holds the fields you always need, dimensions, material, finish, tolerance, weld standard, while the values change every job. It stops incomplete enquiries reaching the floor.
Can we see estimated against actual cost?
The order carries a cost sheet, and material issued against the job card posts as it moves, so the comparison is available while the job is still running.
How are revised drawings handled?
A revision is a versioned change on the order record with the person and time attached, and production sees the current version, not a forwarded photo.
Similar operations run on SysOMS too.
Questions people ask
Straight answers, no sales talk.
System of Marketing & Sales
Put enquiry to dispatch on one governed line.
Tell us how your plant sells today. We'll show you where the line breaks and what it takes to close it.