Metal Fabrication ERP
Automate your manufacturing production with Metal Fabrication ERP
Achieve business growth and streamline manufacturing processes with Metal Fabrication ERP. SYSPRO understands the challenges Metal Fabricators face. The high cost of materials, shortage of workforce labor, global and often cheaper competition from neighboring countries combined with changing customer expectations means maintaining a competitive edge is more important than ever.
As industry experts, we help Fabricated Metals manufacturers cut costs and increase productivity, whilst providing a unique level of delivery and quality control to manufacturing operations for job shop, batch production, Make to Order (MTO), discrete manufacturing, production line and mixed mode environments.
SYSPRO’s Manufacturing ERP for Metal Fabrication provides greater control and visibility in real-time of your manufacturing operations that is fully integrated with back-office key functions of accounting, purchasing, sales orders, production planning and management, distribution, manufacturing, customer service and seamlessly integrates with your business.
B&R Enclosures increase efficiencies using SYSPRO Metal Fabrication ERP
B&R Enclosures’ SYSPRO ERP implementation has allowed for improved shop floor job reporting, better decision making, flexible quoting to customers, improved efficiency and quality control as well as scale for rapid business growth.
“We use SYSPRO ERP from the point of raising quotes with our customers right through the whole manufacturing process and order processing through to collecting money from our customers and management of our cash ledger.”
Tim Bridges
Director at B&R Enclosures
SYSPRO Metal Fabrication ERP business process solutions:
Contact Management
- Contact Management
- SYSPRO Office Integration
- Customer Complaints
Operations Management & Scheduling
- Bill of Materials (BOM)
- Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM)
- Work in progress
- Shop Floor Data Collection
- Job Nesting
Product Design & Configuration
- CAD Link (ISV)
- Product Configurator
- Quotations and Estimates
- Bill of Materials (BOM)
- Engineering Change Control
Order Configuration & Management
- Quotations and Estimates
- Product Configurator
- Sales Orders
- Return Merchandise Authorization
- Sales Mobility
Inventory & Materials Management
- Warehouse Management
- Mobile
- Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
- Inventory Forecasting & Optimization
Service Management
- Mobile Job Scheduling
- Engineer Task Scheduling
- Scheduling Calendar
- Mobile Data Capture
Quality & Warranty Management
- Batch & Serial Traceability
- Customer Complaints
- Recall Management
- Warranty Repairs
Sourcing & Procurement Management
- Sourcing Policies
- Supply Chain Portal
- Purchase Orders
- Requisitions
- Return to Supplier
- Materials Requirements Planning (MRP)
Other SYSPRO ERP capabilities
Financial Performance Management
- Accounts Payable (AP)
- Accounts Receivable (AR)
- Cash Book
- Electronic Funds Transfer
- General Ledger
- Assets
- Corporate Performance Management (ISV)
Budgeting, Analytics, Intelligence
- Report Writer
- Reporting Services
- Embedded Analytics
- Power BI (Plug-in)
- Office Integration
Business Process Automation & Management
- eSignatures
- Workflow Services
- Role Workbenches
- Business Insights
- Bot Technology
- Connected Services
Administrative Solutions Management
- Sales Analysis
- Projects and Contracts
- Reporting Services
- Credit Checking
How to cut it in the fabricated metals industry
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Simplify complex processes and gain transparency with a clear list of materials and quantities for inventory management and purchasing.
Metal fabricators can track actual production costs against accurate expected costs, enabling informed decisions for profitability optimization.
The what-if costing capabilities allow for the simulation of different production scenarios, helping you to evaluate financial impacts and plan strategically.
Flexible Quoting
Create professional and detailed quotations, providing a seamless customer experience.
SYSPRO’s flexible interface enables timely and accurate estimates, ensuring swift responses to customer inquiries.
Achieve accurate pricing with holistic cost estimation (including outsourced services, accounting for all relevant costs), including material, labor, burden, and outside services.
Simplify the creation of sales orders, purchase orders, and work orders.
CAD Integration
Effortlessly transfer CAD data into SYSPRO ERP.
Maximize efficiency with real-time bi-directional synchronization between CAD and ERP systems, enabling seamless collaboration between engineering and manufacturing teams.
MOM
SYSPRO’s Manufacturing Operations Management solution provides complete manufacturing lifecycle management from planning, scheduling, publishing, collecting, tracking and analyzing to optimize and improve end-to-end manufacturing operations.
Planning and scheduling attuned to the various manufacturing modes, recognizes available resources, tools and equipment, required maintenance and quality as it lays out and maintains the best schedules for completing work on time and making the most of available resources. Integrated quality management also manages equipment calibration cycles and corrective actions as well as product quality testing and certification needs.
Improve overall equipment efficiency (OEE), overall labor efficiency (OLE) and Total Equipment Effectiveness Performance (TEEP).
Manage Traceability
Provides visibility from material origins to product destination with lot traceability and serial tracking.
Easily trace and analyze defects with recorded data throughout the supply chain. Track metal hot-roll batches for recall and traceability requirements.
SYSPRO facilitates recording traceability and quality data from purchasing to sales, with powerful query features for efficient searches.
Manage product design changes with Engineering Change Control and handle returns consistently with the Return Merchandise Authorization module.
Production Planning
Maximize capacity, minimize bottlenecks, and gain real-time visibility.
Take control of Work in Process, optimize sequencing, and reduce waste to achieve lean manufacturing.
Automate tracking of variances and defects for superior quality control.
Shorten lead times and ensure faster delivery.
Real-time Insights
Real-time insight into material and labor usage.
Centralized business intelligence (BI) capabilities with SYSPRO ERP Embedded Analytics: Actionable insights for data-driven decisions to improve customer relationships, operations and revenue.
Job Nesting
By nesting multiple jobs utilizing the same raw material or components in SYSPRO’s Job Nesting capability you can maximize output and reduce wastage to improve costing efficiency – enabling you to quote more competitively.​
Transform your factory floor and take control of manufacturing operations
- Top down and bottom up view of production
- Advanced Planning and Scheduling
- Support your unique smart factory and Industry 4.0 journey
- Shop Floor Data Collection and tracking (SFDC)
- Factory performance analysis and loss management
- Manage price fluctuations, what-if costing and estimates
- Just-In-Time (JIT)

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FAQs
As a Metal Fabrication manufacturing company grows, it needs to adopt practices and systems that will enable it to scale and digitally connect its shop floor with the back office. No longer will spreadsheets and simple accounting packages or disparate siloed systems and outdated incumbent ERP applications support your continued growth. A scalable ERP that is industry-built for Metal Fabrication built for manufacturers is better attuned to the unique and specialized challenges that exist in your sector, for enabling your growth and supporting your digitalization journey.
ERP fabrication software for Metal Fabrication manufacturers can drive huge improvements from design to delivery by automating and integrating core business processes, protecting business data and mitigating risk with easy to understand information. By managing the end-to-end supply chain and integrating the shop floor with the back office, you can enable work plans, collaborate closely with R&D and Engineering, schedule production and operations, provide customer service tools, whilst keeping a watchful eye on inventory, and the company’s financial data. All while driving down costs and wastage, all in real-time.
Here are 15 reasons why you should implement a Metal Fabrication ERP in your business:
1. Integrated business
2. Eliminate manual data capture
3. Automate and streamline business processes
4. Optimize manufacturing and shop floor data collection
5. Control inventory costs, minimize waste and optimize inventory levels
6. Enhance customer service
7. Improve supply chain management
8. Achieve cost efficiencies with improved accounting
9. Better real-time reporting and collaboration
10. Better manage product quality and lot traceability
11. Better manage price fluctuations and the quotation and estimation process
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