Between purchase and sale you have a build. It belongs in the job.

The raw unit is the first entry

A shipping container, a chassis, a trailer: the unit that is to become something is recorded with its own serial number at purchase. From then on documents, images and technical details hang on that number instead of in a folder beside it.

In Jobtura manufacturing is a job type of its own, just like sale, rental or service. The conversion therefore gets the same foundation as an order: customer, dates, line items, documents.

What is to be built can be held as an assembly with its own parts list. Doors, hatches, distribution boards, lighting and flooring are listed there as requirements before anyone orders anything.

Free attributes add whatever else your company wants to record, with no programming needed.

Costing, procuring, scheduling

Before you commit there is the calculation you do for yourselves. The margin calculation shows the gross profit at the intended sales price, together with the purchase prices of bought-in parts and the cost per hour by trade.

Requirements turn into purchase orders. Every article carries several supply sources with purchase price, minimum quantity and lead time. Goods receipt books the delivery onto the manufacturing job, and the incoming invoice is created straight from the purchasing job.

Two weeks of build time are not a block but a sequence of work steps: metalwork first, the preparatory joinery in parallel, then electrics, interior fit-out and final assembly. The trades are spread across the period and appear in the bar chart over jobs and line items. Who is free and when follows qualification and availability, and approved absences take effect on staffing immediately.

If the customer changes the scope, the quotation continues in a new version. The previous state is kept on the job as a revision.

What stays attached to the finished unit

While the build runs, people book their time onto the job. At the end there is no estimate but the total hours by trade with the costs behind them.

Installed components with their own serial number stay assigned to the finished unit. Which distribution board, which generator, which controller sits in which machine can still be looked up years later through individual tracking by serial number or barcode.

The finished machine is then an article like any other. It can be sold or rented out, and rental bills by hire period and tiered rates rather than by quantity.

If you sell the unit, the customer gets the documentation as a complete production and handover folder. If it goes into the hire fleet, checklists support handover and return, and missing or damaged components are documented and then repaired or charged.

When it comes back, service starts as a job of its own on the same number. Fault and fault description are recorded on the machine, the history carries on, and whoever opens it next knows what is inside.