Job shop
The job card should be the quote.
Job shop operations software should keep quote, materials, and delivery on one thread. If dates live on a whiteboard that only one person trusts, the card was never the object.
The problem
A quote lives in email. The job card is paper. Materials are deducted by guesswork. Delivery dates are promised from a whiteboard, and waiting-on-parts is a rumour until someone walks the floor.
An accepted quote gets retyped onto the card. A shortage shows up after the job is promised. Ready-to-invoice is a conversation, not a column. Capacity clashes hide until the weld bay is already stolen.
We keep quote, job card, bill of materials, and delivery on one thread. Waiting-on-parts is a column. Ready-to-invoice is visible from the floor. If a packaged MRP already covers how you actually run, we will say so.
What a custom system holds
- Quotes that become jobs without retyping
- BOM with purchase orders and gates
- Capacity clashes on the same board as the card
- Waiting-on-vendor as a column, not a rumour
- Delivery note and invoice on the same card
Questions
- What is job shop operations software?
- Quote to job to materials to delivery on one card. Waiting-on-parts is a column. An accepted quote should not be retyped, and a shortage should show before the date is promised.
- How does a custom build start?
- A twenty-minute discovery call. We watch how work, stock, and money move — including the exceptions a template never modelled. Then a written scope. If a packaged product already covers it, we will say so.
- Where are you based, and who do you work with?
- Metalique Studios is a UK software company based in Chigwell, Essex. We build custom operations software for UK hire companies, workshops, field teams, and other ops-heavy SMEs — in the language those floors already use. See the UK page.
Where we work
If the quote, the card, and the delivery date still disagree, book a twenty-minute call. We start with how the floor actually promises.