From the quotation to the cutting list, without rebuilding the job
The quotation already knows what the job consumes. Rebuilding that by hand for the shop is where the customer's numbers and the shop's numbers start to disagree.
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Pricing work you have not made yet
The problems that cost a fabrication shop real money — arithmetic rebuilt by hand every quote, a rate that moved and a spreadsheet that did not, a margin taken on the wrong base — and what to do about them. Written with the numbers of this trade rather than general advice.
GST on a fabrication quotation — what goes in the taxable amount
Where transport, installation and commissioning sit relative to the tax, why CGST and SGST or IGST depends on the site and not the customer, and the ordering that quietly changes the total.
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How to price a stainless steel work table
A 72 by 30 inch table in 304, costed line by line — sheet, tube, hardware, labour and margin — with every number shown, so you can check it against your own.
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Margin on selling versus markup on cost — the ₹900 a table nobody notices
Both get called "twenty per cent" in conversation, and they give different answers from the same figures. The arithmetic, why spreadsheets almost always take the wrong one, and how much it costs over a year.
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SS 202, 304 and 316 — what actually changes in your quotation
The three grades a fabrication shop quotes in, what separates them in the metal, and the 90 per cent price spread between the cheapest and dearest version of an identical table.
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What quotation software for fabricators actually needs to do
Most software sold to manufacturers is built for standard products, and it fails on made-to-order work for one structural reason. Here is what to test on a vendor demo.
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Why your quoting spreadsheet eventually lies to you
The estimating file is not badly built. It is a good tool being asked to do a job it structurally cannot — and here is exactly where it starts to give wrong answers with total confidence.
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