For those who cut their own path
Metal Fabrication Manufacturing ERP for Movers an Makers of the world.
Metal Fabrication ERP
At SYSPRO we understand the challenges manufacturers face. The high cost of materials, global competition and changing customer expectations mean metal fabrication ERP needs to help businesses to maintain a competitive edge through more than just a quality product. Forecasting, Purchasing, Requirements Planning and Work in Progress modules streamline data providing improved inventory and supply chain management allowing for intelligent, data-driven, cost saving ideas. SYSPRO’s metal fabrication module links all the operations of your manufacture process, allowing your business to achieve optimal efficiency, responsiveness and throughput.
How SYSPRO ERP can help your business
Reduce Costs
Manage outsourcing and subcontract operations as integrated processes to your production
Accurately track the actual costs of your nesting job
Efficiently record and consume remainder sheet offcuts
Price Fluctuations
SYSPRO’s extensive toolset provides the flexibility to integrate LME spot pricing with your costing processes, allowing you to better manage your input cost pressures
This ensures greater flexibility in your what-if costing during quotation and estimating processes
Integration & Delivery Time
Work collaboratively with your customers to provide them with a turnkey solution
Multi-level bills of material for designs modelled on CAD systems can be imported into SYSPRO
Reducing double-entry and the margin for error as well as providing a solid basis on which to calculate costs
Improve Efficiency
Integrate directly from design to quote and estimation for accurate project costs.
Improve Traceability
Track and trace metal hot-roll batches, providing recall and traceability requirements
Best-in-Class Metal Fabrication ERP Software
Custom (Job Shop) Fabricators
If your shop predominantly services local manufacturing industries with specialised requirements or one-off jobs, simplicity in your systems is essential to your success. The perfect ERP solution will allow you to:
- Quote quickly and accurately – Customers often need same-day jobs and so quote turnaround time is short and must be accurate or it will affect profitability
- Increase profitability – With real-time insight into material and labour usage. As you may not have repeat orders from the same customer, ensuring each job is profitable is imperative to the bottom line.
- Perform ad-hoc scheduling and CTP – Customers may walk in with a rush job that needs to be completed the same day – can you meet your deadlines and does it impact other work? Using a CTP system allows you to create a balance between what you can produce and what customers and clients are requesting.
- Sub-contract with confidence – Because this is a capital-intensive industry, many custom metal fabricators are not big enough to own speciality machinery, thus having to rely on sub-contracting to provide a ‘full’ service/end result for their customers (coating, specialised cutting, etc.).
Project Fabricators
As a project fabricator, you might specialise in servicing a specific industry such as construction, aerospace, forestry, oil and gas. You may have a custom fabrication department that services individual customers, but your primary business is servicing the needs of a specific industry. You therefore have more sophisticated requirements and want a solution that facilitates:
- Accurate quoting – Having larger contracts, you need the quote to be complete and accurate up front in order to maintain profitability.
- Creating BOMs/Jobs based on customer CAD drawings – It is a time-consuming task to capture complicated CAD details into BOMs into an ERP. CADTalk helps alleviate this.
- Profitability – Dependent on material availability and the production processes.
- Compliance and quality – Heat-tracking and the ability to do quick recalls (mock for compliance) is important. Your ability to provide documentation that validates inspections throughout the manufacturing process and meets quality specifications with the final product is often needed.
Paul Smith
“With SYSPRO, we have been able to produce reports that have been invaluable in measuring our financial performance, job performance, quote accuracy, market performance and sales activity. This is saving us up to 40% of our time and has enabled us to make a cost saving of around £200,000 year-on- year.”
Business Improvement Manager, Metaltech
Neil Murray
“The SYSPRO ERP system has been proven in meeting our specific needs. Everyone has immediate status visibility on every job, from order to final invoice, and a raft of detailed general information and key analysis data is available within seconds.The system has made managing the whole operation far simpler and easier.”
Finance Director, Bendalls Engineering
John Wells
“SYSPRO has enabled us to do more with the same number of people and without it we probably would have needed more staff. Because the system has supported our expansion we have benefitted from greater profits. It has therefore proven itself as an essential part of our investment in the company.”
Managing Director, AJ Wells
Book Your Free Discovery Session
Our discovery session is ideal for companies that are considering an ERP system. We’ll analyse your current business processes and highlight how an ERP system could help optimise them to run more efficiently. The Discovery Session will costs you nothing and you are under no obligation to use or purchase any services from us in the future.
NOTE Your Discovery Session will be completely free of charge, any insights and reports will be yours and you will be under no obligation to take any K3 Syspro services in the future.
