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Sound Familiar?
Am I making money, or losing money?
Employees wasting time?
Your shop floor
manager is pulling his hair out?
Scheduling...#&%*!~<:(># headaches?
Don't trust anyone to do your quoting for you?
Customers bugging you about their jobs?
I'm ordering materials JIC instead of JIT.
Hiring more office personnel?
Would you
rather be fishing, hunting, golfing, or quoting?
Lost
an invoice (again)!
Wish I had a complete history on
this part.
Am I making money, or losing money?
This is the $64,000 Question. With ProfitFab, you will have reports at
your fingertips telling you when you made money or lost money on a job, or
on all the jobs today, or this week, or this month, or, well you get the
idea.
If you lost money on a job, drill down to find out why. Was
your estimate unrealistically low? Did you use more material than you
thought you would? (yeah, like that ever happens)
With ProfitFab,
you will be in control. You will find the mistakes and correct them. You
will find the unprofitable jobs and weed them out. You will make
money.
Employees wasting time?
Jobs are going out the door, but I really have no idea how much time my
employees spent doing productive work on those jobs This is always going
to be an issue in job shops. You need to know how much labor time went
into a job to find its actual cost. With ProfitFab's Shop Clock module you
will have this information at your fingertips, and more.
Employee
Productivity reports, detailed Job Time reports, detailed Station Time
reports, payroll reports, Employee tardy reports, and more. All at your
fingertips. With the click of a button.
And, if you integrate
ProfitFab RFid into your shop, you'll find time data collection so easy,
you won't even realize you're doing it.
Your shop floor manager is pulling his hair
out?
Symptoms:
- Your shop floor manager is pulling his hair out, or going gray
prematurely
- Your shop floor manager is running around like a chicken with its
head cut off, just to stay on top of the current status of jobs
- Your shop floor manager has an assistant shop floor manager who does
his running around for him
- Your shop floor manager spends hours manually creating workload
lists to check off job status
- Your shop floor manager spots bottlenecks after parts are starting
to pile up in front of the press brake
Cure:
- Buy ProfitFab
- Print Active Job Status List
- Print Operation Loading report, Operation Forecast report, Station
Schedule report, Job Forecast report
- Re-assign assistant shop floor manager to a more productive position
- Have a nice day :)
Scheduling...#&%*!~<:(>#
headaches?
Still having those scheduling nightmares? Do you still schedule your
work load on a white board? With pencil and paper? With a hope and a
prayer?
With ProfitFab's built-in automatic job scheduler, your
nightmares are over forever. You set up the parameters to define how you
work, and then let it go. You can reschedule your entire workload in the
middle of the night so that you can get back to sleep, and leave those
nightmares to your competitors.
Don't trust anyone to do your quoting for
you?
Okay, so you're the owner of the shop. You've been building things
since you were a kid. You could quote a part with your eyes closed and one
hand tied behind your back. And your name goes on every quote that goes
out the door.
Sometimes it's hard to let go. Sometimes it's hard
trust someone else when your name is on the line. But mostly, it's just
plain hard to train someone to do something that you've spent a lifetime
learning yourself.
But with ProfitFab, you will have the tools you
need to create consistent, reliable quotes. Our customers have proven it
in the field. We gave a drawing to two unrelated ProfitFab customers and
they came back with quotes that were within pennies of each other.
Customers bugging you about their jobs?
The phone never seems to stop ringing.
The customer calls the
receptionist. The receptionist pages the shop floor manager. The shop
floor manager interrupts the press brake operator. The press brake
operator gives a status update to the shop floor manager, who passes it on
to the receptionist, who relays the information to the customer. Then the
phone rings again.
With ProfitFab, the receptionist would have all
the information needed to update the customer immediately. The information
is captured in the system in real-time. You'll give better customer
service without the extra interruptions.
And, if you integrate
ProfitFab WebLink into your system, your customers can get their update
via your web site, without ever having to pick up the phone. So you can
get back to doing what you do best, which is build their parts.
I'm ordering materials JIC instead of
JIT.
How does your purchasing system work? Are you ordering materials for
jobs using the JIC (Just In Case) method, or are you ordering them JIT
(Just In Time)?
Are you in Control of your inventory, or is your
Inventory in control of you?
Do you start jobs, only to find out
that you don't have enough of the materials on hand to complete
them?
With ProfitFab's built-in MRP and Inventory systems, those
days are gone for good. You can order material specifically for jobs, just
in time to start the jobs, and track the actual material usage at the
jobs. Or you can order material based on inventory levels. Or you can do
both. You can issue PO's, track open PO's, track receipt of materials for
a job, track invoices from your vendors. It's all there. Everything you
need.
Hiring more office personnel?
Are things starting to pick up in your business? The economy is
starting to turn around, customers are placing new orders, and now you are
starting to have more work than you can keep up with. To keep up with the
increase in new orders, you need to hire someone to answer the phone. To
keep up with the extra purchasing, you need to hire a new purchasing
agent. To keep up with the influx of customer requests for job status, you
need to hire a new assistant shop floor manager.
OR
you can buy ProfitFab. Using ProfitFab to streamline processes, track
jobs, and control your shop can allow your current employees to do their
jobs faster and more efficiently, freeing them up to take on the extra
work that you are experiencing. ProfitFab will help you increase your
bottom line without increasing your overhead. We've been doing it for 13
years, for job shops around the world. We can do it for you..
Would you rather be fishing, hunting,
golfing, or quoting?
That seems like a silly question, doesn't it?
How about these?
- What is your turnaround time on quotes to orders?
- Does it take days to get a quote through regular mail to your
customers?
- Do you pay for toner and long distance to manually fax quotes to
customers?
- Do your quotes take hours to create instead of minutes?
- Can you re-quote a part you have made before in seconds?
- Can you estimate what a quote is going to do to your shop's
capacity?
- Can you realistically build the parts on that quote by the date you
said you could?
With ProfitFab, you'll spend a lot less time doing the same old things,
and you'll probably have enough free time left over to get in 18 holes
after lunch.
Lost an invoice (again)!
Have you ever forgotten to invoice a job and didn't find out until the
end of the fiscal year?
Coming up with a system to guarantee that
it never happens again can create more work and headaches than it is
worth.
But, with ProfitFab, you don't have to worry about it
anymore. ProfitFab automatically puts every job that is shipped onto an
invoice. It doesn't matter if you short ship an order, ship only some of
the line items from an order, or ship the complete order. Every part you
make for your customer will be invoiced.
Wish I had a complete history on this
part.
Have you ever wanted to find out everything you've ever done to a
specific part?
With ProfitFab's Part History and Part Activity you have that
information at your fingertips.
Every Quote.
Every Order.
Every Job.
Every Invoice.
Every change.
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