Odoo ERP for Metal & Steel Fabrication Manufacturing

Material Planning, Procurement & Remnant Stock Management

Steel is expensive. Every kilogram of waste is a margin point you can't recover.

Ksolves configures Odoo's MRP and inventory modules to manage the specific material dynamics of metal fabrication, including grade-specific material requirements, heat number traceability, mill certificate management, and remnant stock tracking across all material forms: coils, sheets, plates, bars, tubes, and profiles.

• Automated reorder triggers based on production demand, not fixed intervals, eliminating both overstocking and emergency purchasing.
• Remnant offcut tracking: captures dimensions, grade, and quantity of every offcut returned to stock, available for future job allocation before new material is purchased.
• Preferred supplier configurations for specific material grades ensure procurement consistently sources from approved vendors at agreed rates.

Multi-Operation Routing & Work Center Scheduling

From plasma cutting to powder coating, every operation sequenced, every work center optimized.

We implement Odoo's routing and scheduling capabilities to reflect the actual operation sequences of your fabrication facility, including cutting, punching, bending, rolling, welding, grinding, heat treatment, surface finishing, and final inspection. Work center capacity configurations, tooling changeover times, and operation-level time standards are all factored into scheduling logic that produces realistic production plans your shop floor supervisors can actually execute, and your customers can rely on for delivery commitments.

Estimating & Pre-Order Quoting

Margin is won or lost before production begins. Most fabricators don't know which until after it ships.

Ksolves configures Odoo to support accurate pre-order estimating, building quotations from real material costs by grade and form, operation time standards per work center, subcontract operation rates, and overhead allocation. This is the service that protects commercial margin before a job is won, not just tracks it after production completes.

• Historical job cost benchmarking feeds quotation templates with evidence-based rates, reducing the risk of underquoting on similar future jobs.
• Real-time material pricing integration means quotes reflect current stock costs, not last month's purchase prices.
• Quote-to-actual comparison on every closed job continuously improves estimating accuracy over time.

Quality Inspection & Material Certification Management

In metal fabrication, quality is not a final check; it is a production discipline.

Ksolves embeds quality control checkpoints throughout your fabrication workflow: incoming material inspection against mill certificates, dimensional checks at intermediate operations, weld inspection protocols, surface finish verification, and final product release against customer specifications.

• Non-conformance logging, hold and quarantine management, and corrective action tracking are managed within Odoo.
• Certificate of conformance generation: mill certificates, weld inspection records, and dimensional reports stored and distributed from one auditable location.
• Standards supported: ISO 9001, EN 1090, AS/NZS, and other fabrication quality standards, with a complete, auditable quality record for every job.

Machine Maintenance & Equipment Reliability Management

A plasma cutter that stops mid-shift costs more than the repair bill.

We configure Odoo's Maintenance module to manage preventive maintenance schedules, breakdown response workflows, and spare parts inventory for every critical machine in your facility: plasma cutters, laser cutting machines, press brakes, welding stations, shot blast equipment, and powder coating lines.

• Usage-based maintenance triggers schedule service based on actual machine cycles, not fixed calendar intervals, reducing unnecessary downtime and preventing overdue maintenance.
• Machine-specific service history records give your maintenance team full visibility of each asset's condition and upcoming service requirements.
• Spare parts inventory integration ensures critical components are in stock before a breakdown, not ordered after one.

Fabrication Job Costing & Margin Management

Know the true cost of every job before you quote it, and after you complete it.

Ksolves tailors Odoo's costing framework to capture the granular economics of metal fabrication jobs, including material costs by grade and form, cutting and forming operation costs, welding labour rates, surface treatment costs, subcontract operation charges, and overhead allocation.

• Real-time job cost tracking against quoted costs gives estimating and production teams early visibility into margin variance, enabling corrective action before a job completes rather than discovering a loss after it ships.
• Subcontract cost capture automatically updates job cost as external operations (heat treatment, specialist coating, NDT) are confirmed complete.
• Historical benchmarking improves future quotation accuracy by comparing actual costs to quoted costs across every closed job.

Subcontract & Surface Treatment Management

Not every operation happens on your floor. Manage what happens off it with equal precision.

Metal fabricators routinely subcontract specialist operations: heat treatment, specialist coating, galvanising, powder coating, precision machining, NDT testing, and third-party inspection. Ksolves configures Odoo's subcontracting module to manage the complete workflow for both in-house surface treatment and externally subcontracted operations.

• Purchase order generation, material dispatch and return tracking all managed within the same Odoo environment that runs the rest of your fabrication operation.
• Job-specific finish specifications, coating thickness requirements, and customer approval hold points embedded directly into the production workflow.
• Quality verification on return and cost capture against the originating job order, every subcontract operation visible in the job's production timeline.

Customer Order Management & Technical Drawing Integration

From customer RFQ to fabrication drawing to delivery, manage every stage without losing a detail.

We implement Odoo's sales and document management modules to handle the commercial and technical complexity of fabrication customer orders: RFQ management, technical drawing attachment and version control, customer specification tracking, approval workflow management, and delivery scheduling.

• Multi-revision drawing management ensures the shop floor always works from the current, customer-approved version with full change history and automatic notification when a revision supersedes a previous issue.
• Customer specification tracking links commercial requirements directly to job routing and quality checkpoints, preventing production from proceeding without required approvals.
• Automated dispatch documentation and customer-facing delivery confirmations complete the order management lifecycle without manual document generation.