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Manufacturing work, with the job and the margin connected
Manufacturing jobs stay profitable when labour, materials, purchasing, production and delivery all stay connected to the work.
Overview
What these businesses have in common
Not every manufacturer runs a production line. A lot of WorkGuru customers build to order, engineer to order or make substantial products and assemblies where each job has its own labour, materials, purchases, changes and delivery date.
That kind of manufacturing needs more than stock control. The quote needs to turn into work, purchasing needs to land against the right job, people need to know what is next, and management needs to see whether the job is still tracking against what was allowed for.
WorkGuru keeps that operational trail together from sales through production and invoicing. The industry pages below show how that changes across custom manufacturing, equipment, trailers, conveyors, precast, truck bodies, sheds and other build-to-order work.
The work
What is different about manufacturing work
The product can repeat without the job being identical.
Options, customer requirements, engineering changes and bought-in components can make two builds commercially different even when they start from the same base product.
Production and project control overlap.
Work has to move through people, work areas and suppliers, while management still needs to know what each customer job is costing.
Materials are only useful when they connect to the work.
Stock, purchased components and outside processing need to land against the build they were used for, not disappear into a warehouse total.
Industries
Find the page for your kind of work
Every one of these runs on the same platform. The differences are in how it is set up.
Custom Manufacturing
Build-to-order and engineer-to-order work where every job can carry a different mix of labour, materials, tasks and changes.
Industrial Equipment Manufacturing
Complex equipment builds where fabricated parts, bought-in components, labour, testing and delivery all need to roll into one job.
Food Processing Equipment
Equipment for food production where custom fabrication, bought-in components, documentation and commissioning need to stay together.
Agricultural Equipment & Machinery
Machinery and attachments where fabrication, assembly, hydraulics, parts and customer options can change from one build to the next.
Conveyor & Materials Handling
Conveyors and handling systems where design, fabrication, purchased components, site work and commissioning all belong to the same project.
Trailers
Trailer builds where options, bought-in parts, fabrication hours, fit-off and customer changes determine the real job result.
Signage & Sign Manufacturing
Custom signs and fabricated displays where design, production, purchased materials, installation and revisions all need one job record.
Precast Concrete
Project-driven precast work where production, reinforcement, embeds, transport and site dates need to stay tied to the customer job.
Truck Body Manufacturing
Custom truck bodies where fabrication, components, electrical work, hydraulics, fit-off and changes all affect the final margin.
Shed Building
Shed and building packages where quoting, fabrication, purchased components, delivery and installation need to stay commercially connected.
Outcomes
What changes when it is all in one place
See margin while the build is still moving.
Bring labour, materials, purchases and revenue together against the job before the final invoice tells you what happened.
Keep production work connected to the customer order.
Turn quoted work into jobs the team can schedule, work on, purchase for and complete without rebuilding the information.
Control bought-in cost as well as internal labour.
Keep supplier orders and outside work tied to the build so the real cost does not get separated from production.
Grow without adding another disconnected system.
Keep sales, jobs, purchasing, inventory, labour, invoicing and reporting in one operational platform where that model fits the business.
Proof
Businesses like these already run on it
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A lot of apps do one thing well but could never do everything we needed. WorkGuru is just different.
Nolan Keen, Managing Director, The Conveyor Belt Company
FAQs
Manufacturing questions
What type of manufacturing is WorkGuru best suited to?
WorkGuru is strongest in build-to-order, engineer-to-order and project-based manufacturing where individual jobs need labour, materials, purchasing and margin control.
Is WorkGuru an MRP system?
WorkGuru has manufacturing, purchasing, stock and production capabilities, but high-volume repetitive production with deep MRP requirements may be better served by a specialist manufacturing system.
Can WorkGuru handle custom and standard products together?
Yes. Standard work can use repeatable templates and product structures, while custom jobs can carry the extra tasks, materials, purchases and changes they need.
Can we see the actual cost of each manufactured job?
Yes. Labour, purchases, stock and other job costs can be compared with what was quoted so you can see how the build performed.
See how WorkGuru fits your manufacturing operation.
Show us what you build and how work moves through the business. We will show you where WorkGuru fits from quote to delivery.