Fabrication ERP software for aluminium & glass businesses —
measure, quote, make, install and know the profit.

Why does a fabrication business need different software?

A fabrication job is a project, not an order. There is no standard product. A glass cabin partition here, a run of sliding windows there, a shopfront, a set of doors — every job starts with someone going to the site with a tape measure and ends weeks later with karigars fitting the finished work in place.

In between, a lot has to line up. The quotation has to be built from the measurements: how many running feet of which profile, how much glass area, which hardware, how many days of labour. Once the job is won it needs a cutting plan, the right material in stock or bought, fabrication, and karigars scheduled to install. Miss a step — under-quote the labour, run short on a profile, lose track of which karigar was on which site — and the job that looked profitable on paper quietly isn't.

A generic ERP tracks stock and invoices. A generic CRM tracks leads. A fabricator needs the part in between — the project — built around aluminium profiles, glass area, cutting plans, karigar days and installation. That is what aluminium fabrication software and glass fabrication software have to get right, and it is why we build it custom.

Who is fabrication ERP software for?

The measurement-to-quotation, project-stage, field-workforce, material-planning and profitability pattern fits most businesses that measure, make and install:

• Aluminium, uPVC and glass fabricators — office partitions, windows, doors, facades, glazing and railings.
• Modular kitchen, wardrobe and furniture makers who measure at site and install.
• False-ceiling, gypsum and interior fit-out contractors.
• Structural steel, railing and grille fabricators.
• Solar, HVAC and elevator installers — see our Maven Lift elevator ERP for a closely related build.

If your work is batch production of a standard product instead, our manufacturing ERP software page is the better starting point. For the wider sector, see AI automation for manufacturing.

What does a fabrication ERP from Yukti AI include?

This module list comes from the system we built for ZUNOWA, an aluminium and glass fabrication and installation business. Your version is scoped after the free audit — a small fabricator may start with the calculator, stage board and karigar app, and add accounting later.

What is a partition quotation calculator?

It is the entry point to every project. You enter the measurements and specification of a partition, window, door or glazing job, and the calculator produces the quotation: profile lengths, glass area, hardware, labour and price. It turns the estimator's mental arithmetic into a repeatable calculation, so quotes go out faster and the same way every time. Once the job is won, the same figures flow straight into material planning — nobody retypes them.

How does project stage tracking work?

Every confirmed job becomes a project with its own code on a stage board: measurement, design approval, cutting plan, material planning, fabrication, delivery and installation. Measurements, cutting plans and material plans are each their own record against the project, with an approvals step. A project detail view shows progress, activity, the karigars assigned and the invoices linked to it.

How are karigars and labour cost managed?

Karigars get their own mobile login — assigned projects, site tasks and a partition map for the job, and nothing else. It runs on a separate authentication path from the office system. On the admin side there is a karigar register, attendance, configurable labour rates, salary calculation, work history and project assignments. Days multiplied by the labour rate are attributed to the project they worked on, so labour cost is recorded as it happens and job costing is real, not estimated.

What changes for a fabricator after moving to one system?

These are the changes the system is designed to make — not measured percentages. We do not publish savings figures we have not measured.

How can AI help a fabrication business?

The ZUNOWA system already automates the calculation-heavy parts: the partition calculator, material planning against stock and the shortage alert. Those are rules, not AI. Once a fabricator has a few months of project data in one place — quotes, cutting plans, material consumed, karigar days and final cost — an AI layer can read it. These are extensions we can add, not features we claim are running at ZUNOWA today:

• Margin-at-risk alerts — a live project whose material or labour is trending over the quoted budget, flagged before it closes at a loss.
• Quote calibration — comparing quoted labour and material with actuals across finished jobs, so the calculator's assumptions get more accurate over time.
• Schedule and material forecasting — which profiles and glass will be needed across all live projects in the coming weeks.
• Plain-language questions — "which projects are behind schedule", "which customer's jobs are least profitable", "how much of this profile is committed to open projects".
• WhatsApp follow-ups — quotation reminders and installation-date updates to customers, the kind of WhatsApp automation Yukti AI already builds.

This is the same approach we take in every AI-powered business management system: get the data right first, automate the routine, then let AI read the numbers.

ZUNOWA owns all its project, customer and workforce data. Read the full ZUNOWA fabrication ERP case study for every module and how it was built.

Custom fabrication ERP or a ready-made tool?

If you are in Surat or nearby, you can meet us in person — see custom ERP software in Surat. For the general trade-offs, read custom ERP vs off-the-shelf ERP.