Owner OS for machine and fabrication job shops
Alarms for machine and fabrication job shops
“I find out which jobs lost money after they ship, and by then we have already quoted the repeat order at the same price.”
A job shop lives on the gap between the hours and material you quoted and what the floor actually used. Your ERP holds every routing, labor ticket, PO, and shipment, but its reports show transactions, not which job is going sideways right now. Most owners reconcile margin on a spreadsheet after the fact, when it is too late to fix the job or the next quote.
Eight alarms we build for machine and fabrication job shops
- Jobs running over estimated hoursCompare hours clocked to estimated hours on every open job, operation by operation, so you can step in before the whole job's margin is gone.
- Repeat orders at a losing priceWhen a repeat PO comes in, compare its price to what that part really cost on past runs, so you requote losing parts instead of repeating them.
- RFQs sitting unquotedTrack every RFQ from inbox to quote by estimator and due date, so good opportunities from your best customers do not age out unanswered.
- Orders about to ship lateCompare remaining routing hours, work center load, material, and outside processing to each promise date, so late orders are caught early.
- Material and outside process cost creepCompare vendor invoices for metal, plating, heat treat, and coating to PO prices and quoted costs, so supplier increases get caught early.
- Machines idle or stuck in long setupsCompare run hours to available hours per machine and track setup time per job, so your most expensive machines spend more time making parts.
- Paid hours not landing on jobsCompare paid hours to hours clocked on work orders by employee and shift, so indirect time and clocking gaps stop hiding in your shop rate.
- Shipped but not invoicedMatch every packing slip to an invoice and every invoice to its PO price, so shipped work does not sit unbilled or go out at the wrong amount.
Reads from the tools you already use
- JobBOSS²
- ProShop ERP
- Global Shop Solutions
- ECI M1
- Epicor
- Fishbowl
- QuickBooks Online
- Outlook
- Google Sheets
Read-only by default. A guardrail layer controls exactly which data the AI can see, and anything that sends, spends, or deletes needs your approval.