Made-to-measure products
When every quote is a small engineering exercise, and the answer lives in a spreadsheet one person really understands.
From the first set of dimensions to the invoice, worked out once and used everywhere.
You do not sell a catalogue
A customer gives you dimensions, a material, a handful of options, and expects a price. A few dozen attributes are enough to produce millions of possible combinations, so no list of references will ever cover them. Somebody has to work each one out.
In most companies that somebody is one person, and their working method lives in a spreadsheet built up over years. It calculates the price, and often the list of components too. Then the result is typed into the system by hand, and a technician in the workshop rebuilds the parts list a second time.
Every one of those steps is a chance to get it wrong. And when that person retires, the company loses the way it prices its own work.
What do we offer to save you time
and spare you headaches?
Every one of these replaces something that is being done by hand on each order today.
A parts list that calculates itself
Component quantities follow formulas applied to the dimensions ordered. Ask for a width of 4.20 metres and the length of profile needed is calculated, not looked up.
Rules instead of one spreadsheet
The method that lives in one person’s spreadsheet becomes an explicit rule in the system, applied from the quotation right through to the workshop.
Only what you can deliver
One choice narrows the next, so an impossible combination is never offered and never reaches the workshop.
Quality checks sized to the order
The tolerance to verify at the end of production follows the size that was ordered, instead of a standard that applies to everything and therefore to nothing.
Customers who configure themselves
The same rules run on your website. A customer or a reseller configures without picking up the phone, and can come back later to change a configuration already made.
One catalogue, two audiences
Prices shown to a reseller and hidden from a private buyer, from the same catalogue.
It does not stop at the quotation
A configured order still has to be built, shipped and invoiced. Those parts are ours too.
Logistics and manufacturing
Stock, production orders and delivery dates that reflect what was actually sold.
Logistics and manufacturing
Finance and
accounting
An invoice that matches the order and the build, and a margin per product you can trust.
Finance and accounting
Tell us how you price a job today
Walk us through one recent quotation, the awkward one rather than the easy one.
We will tell you which parts of your method the system can take over, and which are genuinely worth keeping in human hands.