Guides for job shop leaders
Practical ways to see trouble coming in the data your shop already has: late jobs, late and bad suppliers, and margin that slips one operation at a time. Each one works by hand with a spreadsheet, and says how Shop Traveler does it for you.
How to tell which jobs will be late before the customer calls
Six warning signs that a job shop job is heading for a late ship date, how to check them by hand from your ERP, and how to get the list every morning.
How to measure supplier on-time delivery in a job shop
The supplier on-time delivery formula, why average days late and reject rate matter as much, how to grade suppliers per part, and how to tie late orders to jobs.
How to catch job cost overruns before you invoice
Three early signs a job is losing margin, how to project a job’s cost to finish from the hours already worked, and what you can still change at step 4 of 6.
Get more out of the ERP you already run, without replacing it
How Shop Traveler reads job, purchase order and cost data from your ERP database, CSV or Excel exports, or web API, read-only, with a mapping instead of custom code.