Metal Fabrication Edition
ERP Built for
Metal Fabrication Businesses
Accurate job costing, mill certificate traceability, subcontract operation tracking, and capacity management, NexWave gives metal fabricators one connected platform from quoting through to delivery and invoice.
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Industry Challenges
The real cost of the wrong system for metal fabrication
The metal fabrication sector has complexity that generic ERP simply wasn't built for. Here's where it hurts most, and how it affects your bottom line.
Job Costing Accuracy Across Labour, Material & Subcontract
A fabrication job touches raw material, cutting, welding, machining, surface treatment, and freight, each with different cost drivers. Without real-time job cost accumulation across all these categories, you can't know if a job made money until it's too late to do anything about it.
Material Grade & Mill Certificate Traceability
Structural, pressure vessel, and marine-grade steel require material certificates traceable from the supplier heat number to the finished component. Without mill cert management integrated into stock control, certificate retrieval at customer or compliance audit time is a scavenger hunt.
Subcontract Operation Management
Heat treatment, anodising, plating, galvanising, and specialist machining routinely go outside your facility. Without subcontract purchase orders linked to the works order, these costs disappear into overheads, systematically inflating apparent job margins.
Drawing & Revision Control
Fabricating to a superseded drawing is the most expensive error in the workshop. Without revision-controlled drawing management linked to the works order, production teams have no reliable way to confirm they're working from the current revision.
Scrap & Offcut Tracking
Steel plate offcuts have real value. Without a system that records offcut dimensions and availability, that value is lost, and you purchase new plate for jobs that could use existing stock. Scrap weight reporting is also increasingly required for environmental compliance.
Capacity vs Quoted Lead Time
Every new job that enters the shop needs to be slotted against machine and labour capacity. Without a scheduling tool that shows current load, salespeople quote lead times the workshop can't achieve, creating a constant delivery credibility problem.
Implementation
Live in 8–12 weeks
Our proven implementation methodology has delivered a 99% go-live success rate. We handle the complexity so you can focus on running your business.
Discovery & Planning
Weeks 1–2, Requirements workshops across your key teams. Process mapping, data audit, and configuration blueprint signed off before build begins.
Core Configuration
Weeks 3–4, System configured to your business rules, product structures, and workflows. Historical data migrated and validated.
Integrations & Training
Weeks 5–6, Shopify, Xero, and other integrations activated. Role-based training delivered across all key user groups.
Testing & Go-Live
Weeks 7–8, Full UAT, parallel running, and hypercare support through your first live operating cycle. We stay close until your team is confident.
Platform Modules
Everything your metal fabrication business needs, fully connected
NexWave is configured for the specific demands of metal fabrication, with the workflows, compliance tools, and integrations your team needs built in from day one.
Manufacturing & Works Orders
Works orders with operation-level routing across cutting, forming, welding, and finishing. Machine and labour time recording, subcontract operation dispatch, and actual cost accumulation per job.
Stock Control & Material Traceability
Raw material stock management with mill certificate linking, heat number tracking, and cut-list management. Offcut recording with dimensional searchability for future job allocation.
Purchasing & Subcontract POs
Purchase orders for raw material with grade and certification requirements, and subcontract POs linked directly to works order operations, ensuring subcontract costs land on the right job.
Job Costing & Project Management
Budget vs actual cost tracking by job across material, labour, subcontract, and overhead. Milestone invoicing for large contracts, and profitability reporting at every stage.
Quality & Certificate of Conformance
In-process inspection checkpoints, first-off approval workflows, NCR management, and Certificate of Conformance generation linked to batch and heat traceability data.
CRM & Estimating
Manage the full estimating workflow from RFQ receipt through material pricing, routing costing, and margin approval to order acceptance. Customer history and repeat-job pricing automation.
Accounting & Job P&L
Job-level profit and loss, Xero integration, WIP inventory valuation, and variance analysis between estimated and actual cost per job, giving management real-time margin visibility.
Analytics & Capacity Reporting
Machine utilisation, on-time delivery, job margin distribution, scrap rates, and subcontract spend analysis, providing the data to continuously improve throughput and profitability.
Interactive
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Sales & fulfilment
Sales order to delivery
Pick list and delivery note
Walk through a sample sales order from save through warehouse pick to posted delivery, in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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Purchasing
Purchase order to general ledger
PO, receipt, invoice, and GL
Walk through purchase order, goods receipt, supplier invoice, and general ledger entries in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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Manufacturing
Manufacturing works order
Plan, WO, job card, and receipt
Walk through production plan from sales orders, work order, material transfer, job card, and finished goods in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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Accounting
Accounting & financial reports
P&L, balance sheet, and dashboard
Walk through home, accounting workspace, profit and loss, balance sheet, and accounts dashboard in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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CRM
CRM pipeline
Lead to sales order
Walk through lead, prospect, opportunity, quotation, and sales order in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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Analytics
Business intelligence
Dashboards and KPIs
Walk through selling KPIs, dashboard charts, and a customisable Sales Order Analysis report in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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See NexWave working for your metal fabrication business
Book a personalised demo with one of our metal fabrication specialists. We'll walk through the modules most relevant to your specific operation.
From NZ$415/month · 8–12 week implementation · 99% go-live success rate · No hidden fees
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