Kolab Manufacturing · Fabrik In pilot
Costing sheets that stop quotes leaking margin
Kolab Manufacturing runs the whole job: cost it, quote it, plan it, make it, deliver it, invoice it. It is proven daily in a working Mauritian workshop, where it already prices the jobs and clocks the floor.
- Costing sheets with real material prices and real process times
- Job sheets that travel with the work across the floor
- Work planner, inventory, procurement and delivery in one place
- Full-screen kiosk clock-in on the floor, always on
Made for
The quote is where the money leaks
The silent killer of Mauritian workshops is not the rent or the wages. It is the quote priced from memory: a steel price from two years ago, a guess at how many parts fit on a sheet, labour rounded down to win the job. The job comes in, the floor does the work, and the margin quietly walks out the door.
Fabrik starts at that exact spot. A costing sheet builds each quote from materials at today's prices, processes with their real times, labour at real rates, per-box arithmetic for packed goods and parts-per-sheet nesting for cut ones. When the client says yes, the costing sheet becomes the job sheet, and the numbers you promised become the numbers you track.
This is not a concept. Kolab Manufacturing is productised from an ERP that runs daily inside a working Mauritian workshop, from the first enquiry to the delivery note. Pilot customers join now, shape what ships, and lock their launch price.
Proven on a real shop floor
Fabrik is not built from a whiteboard. It is the productised version of an ERP that a Mauritian workshop uses every working day, plus patterns from the wider Kolab brick family.
- Costing sheets, job sheets and the work planner price and run the pilot workshop's jobs daily
- Kiosk attendance has clocked the floor since day one: full screen, always operational
- Inventory, procurement, delivery, equipment and petty cash are already live in the pilot
- The tailor orderbook brick proves the same costing pattern scales down to a two-person atelier
Modules
Everything inside Kolab Manufacturing
Every module is a brick. Start with what hurts most, snap on the rest when you are ready.
Costing Sheets
Build a quote from materials, processes and labour, with per-box arithmetic and parts-per-sheet nesting.
Job Sheets
The travelling document of the shop floor: what to make, from what, by when, signed off step by step.
Work Planner
Every job on one board, from queued to delivered, so the floor knows what is next without asking.
Inventory & Stock Control
Staff-facing stock counts, movements and requests, so the stores tell the truth in real time.
Materials & Consumables
Your material catalogue with live prices and price history, plus the consumables that quietly cost money.
Processes
Cutting, folding, welding, stitching, printing: each process with its real time and rate, reused in every costing.
Procurement & Delivery
Purchase orders to suppliers, receipts into stock, and delivery notes out the gate.
Equipment
The asset register and maintenance log for machines, so breakdowns become scheduled services.
Templates
A product library of things you make often: a new quote starts mostly done.
Quotes & Invoicing
Customer records, quotes that convert to jobs, and rupee invoices when the job ships.
Attendance Kiosk
Full-screen clock-in at the workshop door, built to stay operational through the whole shift.
Petty Cash
The small purchases of workshop life, logged and reconciled instead of vanishing.
A closer look
How Kolab Manufacturing feels day to day
Every quote built from real numbers
A costing sheet assembles the job line by line: materials at current prices, processes at measured times, labour, packing and margin. Nesting arithmetic tells you how many parts fit a sheet before you promise a price.
- Price history stops old prices sneaking into new quotes
- Parts-per-sheet and per-box arithmetic done for you
- Margin visible per line before the quote goes out
The traveller, without the paper
When a quote is won, the costing sheet becomes a job sheet: the document that travels with the work across the floor. Each step is ticked where it happens, so the office sees progress without walking the shop.
- One board shows every job from queued to delivered
- Actual times land against the times you quoted
- Late materials flag before the promise date slips
Clock-in that never blocks the shift
A full-screen kiosk at the workshop door clocks the team in and out, and it is built to be always operational: no browser bars, no logins to fumble, no queue at 07:00. Hours flow to payroll through Kolab HR.
- Punch and go, designed for hands that just held steel
- Hours per person and per job, without a timesheet
- Feeds PAYE, CSG and overtime through Kolab HR
Inventory that keeps quotes honest
Stock control and procurement close the loop: what you buy updates what things cost, and what things cost updates the next quote. The stores stop being a mystery and start being a source of truth.
- Price changes flag so quoting catches up the same week
- Low stock warns before a job stalls at the saw
- Purchase orders, receipts and supplier history in one place
Local by design
Made for workshops on an island
Almost everything a Mauritian workshop cuts, folds or stitches arrived by sea. Fabrik treats that reality, and the rest of island life, as the starting point.
Imported prices, tracked
Material prices move with freight and the dollar. Price history in the costing sheet means quotes follow reality, not memory.
Cyclone stand-down
A cyclone switch secures the work planner, pauses lateness rules at the kiosk, and logs the day correctly for pay.
Kreol on the floor
Job sheets and the kiosk speak English, French and Kreol Morisien, per person, so instructions are read, not guessed.
Payroll-ready hours
Kiosk punches flow to Kolab HR for PAYE, CSG, NSF and overtime, so the floor's hours become payslips without re-typing.
WhatsApp job updates
Clients hear the frame is ready for collection, or the delivery van is on its way, on the channel they actually read.
Our holidays in the planner
Public holidays and shutdown weeks are pre-loaded, so promise dates stay honest through Divali and end-of-year.
Boost on the shop floor
Kolab Boost turns good workshop habits into points, badges and rupee-budgeted rewards, visible right at the kiosk.
Punctuality streaks
On-time punches at the workshop door build streaks the whole floor can see grow.
First-time-right jobs
Jobs closed without rework earn points for the crew that made them, because quality is the cheapest process.
Stores discipline
Stock counts done on time and materials booked out properly earn points, and the inventory stays true.
In the wild
What it looks like in real businesses
Prices and runs its jobs on these exact modules every day. Quotes carry price history instead of memory, and the kiosk has clocked every shift since it went in.
Templates hold the standard wardrobes and kitchen carcasses, so a new quote starts mostly done and nesting says how many sheets before the saw starts.
The same costing pattern, scaled down: measurements as the costing sheet, fabric nesting instead of steel, and a Friday list of orders to cut.
Pricing
Kolab Manufacturing pricing, in rupees
Indicative launch pricing, per staff member per month, minimum 10 staff, VAT excluded. Nothing is charged before general availability, and pilot customers lock their launch price for two years.
Fabrik Costing
Quote right, every time.
- Costing sheets with price history
- Templates and product library
- Quotes, customers and invoicing
- Materials and consumables catalogue
Fabrik Workshop
From quote to delivery, one system.
- Everything in Costing
- Job sheets and the work planner
- Inventory, procurement and delivery
- Kiosk attendance on the floor
Fabrik Suite
Every module we make for makers.
- Everything in Workshop
- Equipment register and maintenance
- Packing and petty cash
- Priority support
Prices per person per month, VAT excluded. Annual billing takes two months off. Indicative pricing: nothing is charged before general availability, and pilot customers lock their launch price for two years.
Questions
Asked all the time
What does "in pilot" mean exactly?
Does the nesting really optimise cutting?
Does it connect to our machines?
We quote in Excel today. How do we move?
Does attendance feed payroll?
What happens when the internet drops?
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Stop quoting from memory
Join the pilot, bring your price list, and watch the next quote carry real numbers. Onboarding happens at your workshop, in your language.