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Construction industry

Costed as planned.Installed as costed.

Precise pre- and post-costing, coordinated workflows across trades, transparent communication between office and site. fabular maps the chain from quotation and measurement through production and logistics to assembly and invoicing in one system.

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  • Pre- & post-costing
  • Product configurator
  • Assembly planning
The starting point

Three problems that make projects expensive

They rarely show up straight away. Only the post-costing reveals where the margin went.

Costing without transparency

Costing runs in Excel. Purchase prices, assembly times and material costs are maintained by hand. When a price changes, there is no overview of every affected line and project.

Pre- and post-costing at line and project level, in real time.

Office and site on different information

Assembly records on paper, status updates by phone, variation orders by email. Information arrives late, and decisions are made on outdated data.

One continuous digital chain from the office to the site.

Complex quotations are error-prone

Costing windows, doors and façade elements with hundreds of variants and technical dependencies by hand takes time. Rework and price corrections weigh on projects and customer relationships.

A configurator with automatic quantity calculation – quotations in minutes.

The core areas

What a construction ERP has to deliver

Project costing, measurement, variant configuration, resource control and assembly coordination belong in one platform – otherwise errors appear exactly where the margin sits. A one-off report for a single large project gets described to fabAI in conversation rather than commissioned – the underlying, audited pre- and post-costing figures stay exactly as they are.

In detail

How fabular maps the construction industry

From the first enquiry to handover in one system – with no media break between office, warehouse and site.

Project costing & controlling

  1. 1.Pre- and post-costing side by side.
  2. 2.Automatic link to purchasing and production.
  3. 3.Transparent cost structures and budget control.
  4. 4.Price changes take effect immediately on every affected line.

Purchase prices, assembly times, transport costs and discounts feed in automatically.

Order & assembly management

  1. 1.Dates, trades and resources in one plan.
  2. 2.Mobile feedback from the site, offline as well.
  3. 3.Assembly records digital instead of on paper.
  4. 4.Variation orders land straight in the project, not in an inbox.

Everyone involved sees the same status – without a callback.

Product configurator

  1. 1.Variants and technical dependencies mapped as rules.
  2. 2.Quantity structures are calculated automatically.
  3. 3.Quotations take minutes instead of hours.
  4. 4.The quotation feeds straight into the order, with no re-entry.

What does not fit together cannot be configured – errors do not surface on the site.

CRM & commission management

  1. 1.Sales activities and quotation status in one place.
  2. 2.Commissions settled automatically by rule.
  3. 3.A history on every partner, documented and traceable.
  4. 4.Campaigns and follow-ups from the same system.
Common questions

ERP for construction companies

What sets a construction ERP apart from a standard ERP?

The project logic. A standard ERP invoices orders; a construction ERP calculates projects: pre- and post-costing down to the line, measurement, variant configuration with technical dependencies, assembly coordination across trades. Without that logic in the standard, every project becomes a custom adjustment.

How does the product configurator work?

You define variants, dimensions and technical rules once. When items are put together, the configurator checks what fits and calculates the quantity structure automatically. The result carries over into quotation, costing and production order with no re-entry – errors surface during configuration, not on the site.

Can fitters work without an internet connection?

Yes. Mobile feedback works offline and synchronises as soon as the connection returns. On sites without network coverage that is the precondition for digital records being used at all.

Can commission settlement be adapted to our rules?

Yes, through configuration. Commission models are stored as rules – by revenue, margin, product group or a combination. Your administrators adjust them themselves, with no development request.

Let us work through a project together

Bring a costing that currently runs in Excel. In 30 minutes we show what changes with integrated pre- and post-costing.