Industry one-pager

Joinery, steel and fabrication

The number should travel from the tape measure to the supplier invoice without anyone retyping it

What it costs you today

01
The variation was approved on WhatsApp, executed the same week, and never turned into an invoice line.
Factories in this vertical routinely execute approved variations worth 8–12% of contract value and bill none of it. It is the largest single leak in the trade and it is invisible, because the work was done and the client was happy.
02
The 240 cm wardrobe was priced as 180. The fifth floor with no lift was priced as ground floor.
The surveyor recorded the working width, the out-of-square and the access. The quotation used the default dimensions of a standard assembly. This is exactly how a factory loses money while its reports say it is profitable.
03
The shortage is discovered on cutting day. The board is on the saw, the hinge is not in the store, and the imported one is four weeks out.
Materials are 55–70% of the cost of a job in this trade, and Blum, Häfele, veneer, glass and special profiles run 4–8 week lead times. An idle CNC or press is the most expensive object in the building.

A variation register that ends in an invoice
A variation is raised, priced, approved and then appears in the next billing application by itself. Nothing approved stays unbilled because a coordinator forgot it existed.
Pricing driven by the survey, not by the default
The measured width and height, the out-of-square, the lift or stair access and the site difficulty factor are read by the estimate rather than recorded and ignored. The price that leaves your office is the price of the job you will actually build.
Material requirement per job, netted against what you hold
Every job explodes into what it actually needs, checked against stock and against what is already on order, with lead time carried on the line. The shortage surfaces when the job is confirmed, not on cutting day.
A costing sheet that includes the snags
Material, labour, subcontract, delivery and every snag visit posted against the job. The margin figure at the end is the real one, and it arrives while you can still do something about the next quotation.

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