ERP for plate fabrication, sheet metalwork and metalworking
Nesting and offcuts, material certificates, welding qualifications: the ERP that holds the margin of a workshop where material accounts for half the cost price.
- Nesting and offcut management
- Material certificates and melt
- Welding qualifications
Material decides the margin
In a sheet metal or plate fabrication shop, material often accounts for half the cost price. A quotation costed on the finished weight rather than on the weight committed is systematically wrong, and always in the same direction.
The gap comes from nesting. What you are invoiced for is the sheet format purchased; what you deliver is the cut part. Between the two sits an offcut rate that depends on the cutting plan, the format chosen and the way jobs are grouped.
Added to this is the volatility of metal prices. A quotation valid for three months on a fixed price basis transfers the whole risk to you.
What the buyer will require on acceptance
On regulated structures, conformity is proven by documents produced during manufacture, not afterwards. The EN 10204 3.1 material certificate must be attached to the part, not filed away in a supplier folder.
For welded assemblies, EN ISO 3834 sets out the quality requirements, with qualified welding procedures (WPS and WPQR) and welders whose qualifications carry an expiry date. A welder whose qualification has lapsed invalidates the structure.
AVIA ERP calculates the committed weight from the nesting plan, values reusable offcuts, attaches material certificates to the batch and blocks a welding operation assigned to an operator not qualified as at today's date.
What a metalworking shop expects from its ERP
- Nesting and offcut managementCommitted weight and offcut rate calculated per cutting plan, valuation and reuse of identified offcuts, several jobs grouped onto a single sheet format.
- Material certificates and meltEN 10204 certificates attached to the batch and to the part, with the conformity file issued automatically on delivery.
- Welding qualificationsWPS and WPQR tracking, expiry dates of welder qualifications and clocking blocked outside qualification.
- Non-destructive testingInspections planned and recorded, reports attached to the welds concerned and rework managed.
- Material prices and revisionDated price basis, quotations revised as the market moves and immediate effect on the forecast margin.
The direct benefits for your industrial company
Quotations costed on the weight actually committed
The offcut rate enters the costing. The systematic gap between forecast margin and margin achieved disappears.
Offcuts become stock again
Once identified and valued, they are reused instead of being scrapped for want of knowing they exist.
No weld outside qualification
The check happens at clocking, before the structure is built, and not during the customer audit.
The conformity file assembles itself
Material certificates and inspection reports are attached in production, not gathered together at delivery.
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