Manufacturing ERP · Built in South Africa since 1998
Know what the job actually cost — while you can still do something about it.
Quote, plan, buy, make, deliver and account for every job in one system, so the number you quoted and the number you made finally meet on the same record.
The problem
A good year that somehow did not pay.
Company-level margins can look healthy while a serious share of individual jobs lose money — the profitable ones quietly subsidising the rest. Four reasons why, none of which appear as a line on the income statement.
You quoted it in March and made it in July
The estimate came off a spreadsheet last updated when material prices were different. By the time the job ran, the price you agreed had expired and nothing in the process said so.
The machine was never in the costing
On a factory floor the machine is usually the most expensive resource in the building. Cost labour and material but not machine time and you get a number that looks right and quotes you into a loss.
You bought material you already owned
Stock on the system and stock on the floor are two different stories. Purchasing cannot see what production has committed, so it gets ordered again and the cash sits on a shelf.
Everything gets typed in twice
Quote, job card, purchase order, delivery note, invoice — each retyped from the last. Every hop is a chance to transcribe a quantity wrong, and someone downstream pays for it.
The benefit
Price with confidence. Promise dates you keep. Learn from every job.
Not a longer feature list — three things that change about how the business runs.
Margin known before the job runs
Every quote is built from live material, labour, machine and overhead rates, so you find out a job is thin while you can still reprice it.
Capacity you can promise against
The delivery date comes off a board that knows what is already loaded, instead of off the top of someone’s head in the sales office.
The next quote beats this one
Booked time and issued material post back against the estimate. The costing feedback loop is the part most systems never close.
The solution
How a job moves through BOS.
One record, six steps. The last one is the step that makes the other five worth doing.
Quote
The enquiry lands against the customer’s full history — products, prices, capacity, multi-currency and multi-quantity, all in front of the estimator.
Bill of materials & routing
What it is made of and how it is made, priced from live rates. The product configurator handles variants so you are not rebuilding a BOM per option.
MRP & procurement
Demand netted against free stock and open orders before anything is bought. Landing costs allocated automatically, EDI built in.
Schedule
The job takes a slot on a capacity-aware planning board the whole team can see — not just the planner.
Shop floor
Manufacturing Data Collection books time and material as the work happens, with job tracking, alerts and NCR sign-off.
Invoice — and cost back
Delivery, invoice and ledger in the same system, then actual against estimate on the job you just finished.
No edition upsell
Every module is in the subscription.
There is no tier that unlocks the function you turn out to need.
- Estimating & quoting
- Fast, accurate estimates with multi-currency and multi-quantity support.
- Bill of materials & routing
- The cost model behind every job, priced from live material and labour rates.
- Product configurator
- Variants and options without rebuilding the BOM each time.
- Production management
- Real-time planning and scheduling dashboards, shop-floor tracking, alerts.
- Stock & inventory
- Multi-location, bins, batch and serial tracking, weighted-average costing.
- Materials Requirements Planning
- Nets real job demand against free stock and open purchase orders.
- Procurement
- Multiple suppliers per item, automatic landing costs, EDI built in.
- Warehouse Management
- Goods issues, receipts, returns and transfers tracked as they happen.
- Manufacturing Data Collection
- Time and material booked against the job at the point of work.
- NCR & quality control
- Non-conformance reporting and transaction approvals for cost and quality sign-off.
- Project management
- For engineer-to-order work that does not fit a job card.
- Full-house accounting
- IFRS and GAAP compliant, multi-entity, multi-currency, multi-location.
The close
The honest answers to what you are about to ask.
- "ERP is a capital decision." Not this one. Month-to-month, no lock-in, no initial capital outlay — the prices are published, per user, per month.
- "We will be upsold later." Every module above is in every subscription, with all upgrades and helpdesk support. There is no edition that unlocks a function.
- "We are not ready for the cloud." BOS runs on your own network or on a managed cloud server we host, patch and back up daily. Start on one, move to the other.
- "Our process is unusual." BOS is configured to match your transaction flow. Configuration, custom reports and training are quoted and agreed before any work starts.
- "What happens to our data?" It stays yours, with a backup utility included and daily off-site backups on the managed cloud option.
- "Who do we call?" A South African helpdesk, by email, telephone and remote access. QuickEasy has been building business systems here since 1998.
See it running on one of your own jobs
Tell us how you quote, plan and cost a job today, and we will show you the same job running end to end in QuickEasy BOS.