Engineering & Fabrication
Sheet metal, structural, machining and assembly shops building to drawing, with job work going out and coming back.
A fabrication shop builds to order, so every job has its own drawing, its own material and its own cost. Foundepth runs each job as a costed work order, tracks material sent out for galvanising or machining, and shows what the job really made once it is invoiced.
What pushes on this building.
Every job is different
Quotes are estimated from drawings. Without actual hours and material per job, the next estimate repeats the same error.
Material leaves the gate
Plates go out for laser cutting, parts for plating or galvanising. Challans get lost and quantities do not come back whole.
Offcuts and heat numbers
Plate offcuts have value and test certificates need heat numbers. Both are usually tracked on paper.
Milestone billing
Large jobs are billed in stages. Advance, progress and retention amounts need to tie back to the job.
One order, floor by floor.
How a common order moves through Foundepth in a fabrication workshop.
- 3Step 1 · Order Desk
Order for 14 MS platform frames to customer drawing rev C, billed in two stages.
- 2Step 2 · Shop Floor
Work order with routing: cut, bend, weld, galvanise out, paint, inspect.
- 1Step 3 · Buy Desk
10 mm plate short by 0.6 t, PO raised with mill test certificate required.
- GStep 4 · Stock Room
Plate received against heat number, offcuts returned as usable stock.
- 2Step 5 · Shop Floor
Frames sent for galvanising on a job work challan, received back by count.
- BStep 6 · Ledger Core
Stage invoice, retention and job profit posted against the work order.
Controls that ship with it.
Configured on day one of implementation, not built as custom work later.
- Job wise costing: material, labour hours, job work and overheads
- Routing by operation with machine and labour rate
- Job work out and in with pending challan register
- Heat number and mill certificate held against the batch
- Offcut stock by size, reusable on the next job
- Milestone and retention billing linked to the order
Reports this site reads every week.
- Estimated vs actual cost per job
- Pending job work by vendor
- Hours by operation and job
- Retention receivable
Jobs using 10 mm plate ran 8% over estimate on weld hours across the last 6 orders. Update the estimate sheet.
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