PANEL MANUFACTURING & JOB WORK ERP SOFTWARE
Electrical Panel Manufacturing ERP Software to Run the Whole Job
A purpose-built manufacturing ERP for LT/HT panel board manufacturers, enclosure and bus-bar fabricators, and job-work companies. Catalist ERP keeps the quotation, project, BOM, stores, purchase, four production stages, quality certificate and tax invoice on a single job number. Standard commercial and inventory processes stay on Odoo. Catalist adds the industry layer panel shops actually need: estimation, quotation revision, tender intake, vendor qualification, RFQ comparison, design handover, section and timeline dashboards, job costing, EMD and bank guarantees, e-invoice / e-waybill and after-sales AMC.
Production Planning and Controls
Software empowers you to run every custom panel as one job — from the first enquiry to dispatch and AMC. Create project timelines from the confirmed sales order. Build a costed Bill of Materials for materials and labour. Raise material requests and internal transfers from that BOM. Track fabrication, assembly, wiring and interconnection as separate shop stages on one project card. Compare estimated cost against actual material drawn and labour, so margin is visible while the panel is still on the bay.
Panel Job Scheduling
Plan each panel project with milestones, target dates and sequenced tasks. Align the commercial promise on the sales order with design freeze, material readiness, fabrication, assembly, wiring, interconnection, QC and dispatch.
Cost BOM and Material Requests
Create a costed Bill of Materials for every panel job. From the BOM, raise material requests, generate internal stock transfers, and see issued versus pending material without leaving the project.
Manufacturing Stage Control
Give each bay its own status — fabrication, assembly, wiring and interconnection. Supervisors see the current stage on the project and on the shop dashboard instead of opening four separate files.
Production Floor Control
Empower production engineers to update stage, assignment and remarks from the job. Managers filter delayed or in-progress panels and act on bottlenecks before delivery slips.
Enquiry, Estimation and Material Control
Win work and feed the bay from the same database. Capture leads from walk-in accounts, Tender24 and IndiaMart. Build a detailed estimate of switchgear, enclosure, copper, labour and job work. Issue versioned quotations so the shop never builds against an obsolete offer. Qualify vendors before a critical PO. Compare supplier bids side by side. Draw reserved project stock or buy the shortage against the same BOM.
CRM, Tenders and Estimation
Bring portal tenders and marketplace enquiries into the CRM pipeline. Record competitors on the same bid. Let estimation explode a customer specification into materials and labour before Sales issues the quotation.
Quotation Revision
Keep every offer as a controlled revision. Compare scope, price and delivery across versions and lock the winning revision to the sales order and project.
Inventory and Project Stock
Track receipts, internal transfers and issues against the panel job. See free stock and project-reserved material separately so production is not guessing what stores can issue today.
Purchase, Vendor Qualification and RFQ Comparison
Put an approved-vendor gate in front of buying. Run multi-vendor RFQs against the same project requirement, compare bids and release the purchase order only after sign-off.
Costing, Billing and Indian Compliance
Seamlessly connect the panel job to finance. Collect advances against the sales order. Track post-dated cheques. Lodge EMD and bank guarantees against the tender. Invoice the customer from the same project, generate GST e-invoice and e-waybill, and extract GSTR-1 / GSTR-2 / GSTR-3B oriented reports. Compare budgeted versus actual material and labour so profitability is a project report, not a year-end surprise.
Job Costing
Compare what the panel was estimated at against what the job actually consumed — material drawn from stores and labour booked on the project.
Advances, EMD and Bank Guarantees
Link customer and vendor advances to the order and project. Register earnest money deposits and bid or performance guarantees so instruments do not expire untracked.
E-Invoice, E-Waybill and GST Reports
Generate Indian GST e-invoices with QR, raise e-waybills on dispatch, and produce return-oriented GST reports from posted invoices and bills.
Expense and Cost Accounting
Capture site, testing and job expenses against the project. Post payroll and operating costs into the same ledger that holds the panel invoice.
Design Handover Workflow
Design submits drawings with revision details. Production accepts through an approval trail. Current handover status is visible on the project so the bay is not working off a WhatsApp file.
Quality Inspection Management
Use reusable inspection checklists on finished panels. Record pass/fail and remarks. Print a quality certificate to send with the dispatch documents.
Help Desk, AMC and Repair
Centralise commissioning complaints, annual maintenance contracts and returned-panel repairs against the original job and spare-parts stock.
Certificates, Gate Pass and HR
Keep contractor licences, calibration certificates and employee competency records with expiry dates. Control factory visitors. Run time off, loans and payroll into the same company database.
Design Handover and Quality
Keep design release, inspection, after-sales and factory administration on the same panel job as the BOM and the shop stages. Design hands over approved drawings before the bay starts. Quality inspects the finished panel and issues a certificate with dispatch. Service tickets, AMC and repairs stay linked to that job after delivery. Licences, gate pass and HR run beside the factory so the people, visitors and compliance records sit in the same system as the panel.
Customizable Reports
Gain a clear view of pipeline, open jobs, section delays, billed versus ordered value, budget versus actual cost, stock pending on live BOMs, vendor comparison outcomes and GST liability. Generate reports for the weekly production meeting and for month-end finance from the same system. Sales can see which quotations and tenders are still open. Production can see which panels are stuck in fabrication, wiring or interconnection. Stores and purchase can see what the live BOM still needs. Accounts can see advances, invoices and tax totals without exporting a separate workbook. One report pack, one job number, one source of figures.
Interactive Dashboards
Visualise every active panel on the Project Section Dashboard — Design, Fabrication, Interconnection, Wiring, Assembly and overall status, with invoiced amount on the same row. Open any single job on the Timeline Dashboard for customer reviews and internal progress meetings.
Traceability
Follow one job number from CRM opportunity and quotation revision through sales order, design handover, cost BOM, material issues, four production stages, QC certificate, tax invoice and service ticket. Stores can see what was issued to the job. Costing can see what was consumed.
Integrations
Connect CRM tenders (Tender24, IndiaMart), sales, projects, inventory, purchase, accounting, Indian GST localisation, payroll and service tickets in one Odoo-based suite. No separate estimation workbook and no separate shop-status sheet.
Reporting, Analytics, and Integrations
Make production and commercial decisions from one database. Catalist ERP for electrical panel manufacturing combines customizable job and finance reports, live section and timeline dashboards, full job traceability and the integrations a panel shop needs — CRM and tenders at the front, GST-compliant invoicing at the back, and AMC after dispatch. Book a demo to see a sample panel job move from enquiry to certificate.