BUILDING PRODUCTS

building products

INVEX software built for service centers focused on producing building materials

The INVEX metal software offers a comprehensive set of features and functions that are specific to companies that produce profiled panels and metal building composite panels made from pre-painted and coated metals.

Common business cases such as producing painted slit coil and roll forming the slit product into a profiled panel or flashing, can be handled quickly and out-of-the-box. Other common processes include composite panel manufacturing, cut-down front/exit shearing, press brake/folding, slitting, painting, and anodizing.

In addition to profiled panels and composite panels, these building products companies, also referred to as metal roofing service centers, handle and manufacture a variety of other products that includes flashing, roof underlayment, fixtures, fittings, fasteners and accessories.

Orders can be fulfilled using the multi-step routing function that can fulfill an order across a single or multiple warehouses.

This can include outside processing steps; all required transfers are automatically created.

This INVEX screen shows routing, or the series of steps in which metal is processed for use by a customer

CASES HANDLED:

Receive inbound painted coils while in-transit from the mill on a vessel, truck, or barge
Receive owned or customer owned material
Spot quotes and orders
Contract orders for repetitive parts
Single or multi-step multi-plant processing
Outside processing for processes such as painting

Handles processes such as roll forming and composite panel manufacturing
Handles the painting of coils internally or at an outside processor
Produce flashing from slit coil or sheets
Customer consignment
Non-Conformance function for complaints and claims

PAINTED COILS

INVEX handles bare coil, coated and painted coil inventory as well as the slitting and cut-to-length processes to produce the slit coil and sheet.

PROFILED PANELS

Profiled Panels are produced by roll forming flat metal products into profiled or grooved panels. For sales and production purposes, INVEX tracks both the consumed width of the flat metal as well as the finished width of the profiled panel.

built for various
business cases

INVEX supports companies that produce metal building composite
and profiled panels made from pre-painted and coated metals.

INVENTORY

FEATURES:

Coils inventory controls piece, weight, length (feet or meters) and area
Sheet and flat panels can be inventoried by piece, weight, and length
Items such as screws, rivets, and clips can be inventoried and sold by piece
Roof underlayment can be inventoried by the piece/roll
Foam core, and strippable film can be consumed during production
Flexible stock search features to search by grade, color gauge (thickness), width and length
Maintain chemistry, mechanical results, specifications (ASTM, ASME, etc.) for inventory
Drop (remnants) can be viewed in the same inquiry as master coils
Full cycle inventory tag tracing (trace from parent to child)
Receive and toll process customer owned inventory (toll processing)
Vendor Consigned Inventory

DYNAMIC DIMENSIONS

The variable dimensions of a product (width for coils, width and length for sheet, length for panels and profiles, length for flashing) are automatically and dynamically maintained. This eliminates the need to create or generate specific product codes or numbers for each unique combination of dimensions created as a by-product of production and purchasing. For example, panels can be sold in stock lengths and custom lengths.

SALES

SELLING PANELS

Fast quote to order conversion
Panels can be sold by the Piece, Length, area or weight
INVEX dynamically converts the price to the selected unit of measure
Relevant quantities are automatically calculated for invoicing.

we see aluminum steel panels used for building materials

PROJECT ORDERS

Project Orders are designed to allow architectural metal product companies to set up a large job at a summary level, indicating the total quantity of each panel and the corresponding price. As the contractor issues specific releases, the INVEX Orders can be quickly created from the Project Order. This enables the panel manufacturer to keep track of the planned and released quantities and provide a status and history of the entire project. Typically, contractors will release only the material required for the section(s) of the building that are ready for the panel installation.

ORDERS THAT SUPPLY A SERIES OF PANELS

‘Job Supply’ is an optional Quote/Order entry mode that is streamlined for use in orders that supply a series of panels where there may be different cut lengths for each panel and color specified on the order. The order entry function has been structured for this particular market sector to enable the piece and mark numbers to be recorded for each cut length. In addition to the length of the panel, contractors will also specify additional reference information required for production, packaging or unloading purposes. The purpose of this is to provide the staff that stacks the panels on skids with accurate skid content so as to eliminate the need to calculate or monitor the weight of each skid.

ID Number – ID number for each cut-length that corresponds to the building drawings
Cut-Back – used in composite panels to denote the amount of cut-back for insulation
Handling – used in composite panels to indicate the handling direction

PRODUCTION

FEATURES:

Multi-step processing (slit and roll)
Online inquiry functions for planning, scheduling, and production recording
Planning function to group multiple orders onto the same Production Job
Roll form process to consume coils and produce multiple panel lengths
Composite panels can be produced from two coils with foam added during the process
Slitting layout function to specify the arbor layout, breaks/stops, and edge trim
Special layout functions for panel roll forming, cut-to-length, and shearing processes
Multiple sets of sheets or panels can be stacked on a common skid to create a ‘lift’

PANEL PRODUCTION RECORDING

Recording production is simple and fast. The specialized processing-plans help automate the generation of the planned production and only require operators to confirm what was produced.

pACKAGING & LIFTS

LIFTS & PACKAGES

A Lift represents a set of sheets or panels of the same or different sizes and/or lengths that have been stacked on a common skid or other type of package. All items in a skid must be for the same customer ship-to. INVEX uses lifts to control packaging, labels, as well as the loading and unloading operation.