Most shops find out a job lost money after it is invoiced. ShopXpert manufacturing ERP connects quotes, jobs, labor, materials, purchasing, and scheduling to live production data, so you see margins, delays, and shortages while there is still time to act.
If any of these happen in your shop every week, the issue is not effort. It is information that lives in too many places.
The problemTwo estimators price the same part differently, and neither knows what the last one really cost.
Build estimates with costing tools that include materials, labor, outside processing, and overhead, with your own formulas and fields. Keep revisions, send a professional quote, and compare it against what similar jobs actually cost.
When the customer approves, the quote becomes a sales order and a routed job in one step. Nobody types the part, quantities, or prices again.
The problemHours and material usage are written on paper and entered days later, if they are entered at all.
Operators record time against the job at their workstation, material is issued from inventory to the job, and outside processing purchase orders are tied to the same record. Costs add up as the work happens.
Managers see which jobs are on budget, which are drifting, and why, before the parts ship and the margin is locked in.
The problemA rush order comes in and nobody can say what it will push back.
Drag jobs on a Gantt board and let ShopXpert set start and end times based on machine and employee availability. Link dependent steps, compare planned against actual, and spot the bottleneck before it stops the floor.
The same plan feeds the workstations, so operators always see the next job in the right order. See how it works in production management.
The problemPurchasing, receiving, and invoicing happen in three places, and the numbers never quite match.
Create purchase orders from supplier RFQs, reserve inventory for production, and track suppliers with scorecards. When the job ships, create the invoice in ShopXpert.
The QuickBooks integration syncs invoices, purchase orders, customers, suppliers, items, time entries, and job costs. ShopXpert runs operations and QuickBooks keeps the books.
Every step adds to the same job record, so the margin you quoted is the margin you can check.
QuotePrice the job with costing tools and send a professional estimate.
Release the JobConvert the approved quote into a sales order and a routed job.
Track Costs LiveLabor, material, and outside processing post to the job as work happens.
Invoice and SyncShip, invoice, and sync the numbers to QuickBooks.
Fewer surprises at the end of the job, and fewer hours spent chasing information.
Estimate vs actual on every job, not a guess at month end.
Costing tools and job history keep every estimator on the same numbers.
Office and floor work from the same plan and priorities.
Data entered once flows from RFQ to invoice and into QuickBooks.
Add the modules you need now and switch on more as you grow.
Manufacturing ERP (enterprise resource planning) is software that connects quoting, jobs, scheduling, inventory, purchasing, labor, and costing in one system. ShopXpert is built for job shops and contract manufacturers, so the shop floor and the office share the same live data. See the general definition of enterprise resource planning.
No. ShopXpert runs operations and QuickBooks keeps handling accounting. Customers, suppliers, products, and tax codes import from QuickBooks once, then invoices, purchase orders, time entries, and job costs sync from ShopXpert.
Labor is recorded at the workstation, material is issued from inventory to the job, and outside processing purchase orders are tied to the job. Actual costs are compared with the estimate while the job is running.
No. ShopXpert is modular. Start with the areas that hurt most, such as quoting and jobs, and add inventory, quality, or maintenance later.
Yes. See how switching to ShopXpert works, including data migration and training.
See ShopXpert running with your own jobs, routings, and costs.
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