Which jobs is your shop losing money on?
Four inputs from your own floor. A yearly figure for the hours paper travelers eat. No email required.
What you get
4 things that decide this
- 01A yearly estimate of the hours spent re-typing traveler data into spreadsheets and accounting.
- 02A per-job view: what admin and rework add to the price you quoted.
- 03It will not price your jobs for you. It shows where the quote and the reality drift apart.
- 04If the number is small, your paperwork is not the bottleneck. That is worth knowing too.
How it works
The True Cost Per Job Calculator takes four inputs: jobs per month, average quoted price, hours spent re-typing job data each day, and your scrap or rework rate. Shop-floor software vendors report one to two hours a day of re-typing as the common pattern in shops running paper travelers, a pattern documented by Weever and Eziil.
The output is a sentence built only from what you entered. It shows roughly how many hours a year your shop spends moving job data by hand, and what that adds to each job. No benchmark is invented on your behalf.
Most shops find out a job lost money when the accounts get reconciled, weeks later. The calculator will not fix that. It tells you what the delay is costing while you decide whether to.
- QuotePriced from estimated hours
- TravelerPaper follows the job
- Re-typingData entered again, later
- ReconcileTrue cost appears weeks after
The gap between the quote and the reconciliation is where margin disappears.
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Questions, answered
01Is this only for machine shops?+
It fits any job shop that quotes work and runs it on paper or spreadsheets. Fabricators, machine shops and contract manufacturers see the same pattern.
02Where does the one-to-two-hours figure come from?+
From shop-floor software vendors Weever and Eziil, who document daily re-typing in paper-traveler shops. It is a preset, not a claim about your shop. Enter your own number and the result uses it.
03Does the result get stored or sent anywhere?+
No. Nothing is saved and no email is required. The number is for you.
