For cabinetmaking & manufacturers
Every piece has its price.
Do you know yours?
Craft manufacturers earn on precision, not on volume. Gantway gives you the overview across every piece in progress, every station and every costing — so your craftsmanship pays off commercially too.
Gantway controlling — planned/actual comparison per piece with live margin, filtered by customer and status
Every piece has its price — and Gantway shows it live. Materials, hours, machine, margin: line by line, piece by piece.
A typical manufacturer
Eight people,
ten pieces, one overview.
Every order is one of a kind — with its own costing, its own station sequence and its own delivery date. Without a planning tool, control rests solely with the owner.
Das Problem
What eats
a manufacturer's margin.
Custom requests that nobody tracks.
The customer swaps the veneer for smoked oak, the fittings for brass. Agreed verbally, kept in your head — and never billed as a change order. By the time you deliver, the margin is gone and you don't know where it went.
Capacities are in your head, not in the plan.
Eight employees, five stations — and only the master craftsman knows who is working on what right now. As soon as a piece falls behind or a journeyman is out sick, all priorities have to be renegotiated: verbally, on the move.
Finishing as an invisible bottleneck.
Upholstery, painting, veneer laying — these stations are rarely captured in the plan. Yet this is where it is decided whether a piece arrives on site on time or waits three weeks for the final touch.
Qualifications are scarce, and nobody plans them in.
Only two of your employees can do marquetry. One can upholster. When an order is tied to these people, it automatically drags follow-up orders along with it — without anyone seeing it, until the deadline is at risk.
Ten pieces, ten costings — all in different spreadsheets.
No piece is like the other. Every costing starts fresh: dimensions, materials, type of execution, custom line item. Anyone managing this in separate Excel files eventually loses the overview — and with it, control over their prices.
Wie Gantway hilft
Planning
that is equal to your work.
Station utilization with traffic-light colors in Gantway
All pieces in progress at a glance.
The digital desk shows every order with status, station and next step — no notes, no shouted questions. What needs to be delivered today is immediately visible.
To the digital deskStation overload as a conflict marker
Spot bottlenecks before the deadline tips over.
The conflict engine reports automatically when a station is overloaded or two pieces claim the same qualification at the same time. You react in advance — not after delivery.
To the conflict engineOrders with status badges in the list view
Quotes with material variants — A or B.
Ash or smoked oak? Stainless steel or brass? With the four line-item types and the alternatives function, you put both variants into the quote. The customer chooses — the costing adjusts automatically.
To quotes & customer portalPlanned and actual values as KPI tiles in controlling
Costing per line item, not per order.
Every line item — material, hour, special purchase, subcontracted service — has its own cost line. The margin panel shows in real time whether you are still on track. If the customer changes something, you see the margin impact immediately.
To pre- and post-costingStaff pool for assigning by drag & drop
Plan qualifications in before things heat up.
Gantway knows your qualification catalog: who can do marquetry, who upholsters, who veneers. Tasks are only assigned to employees who can carry them out — and bottlenecks become visible before they block the order.
To staff & qualificationsOrders in progress with progress bars
Materials per task — no piece waits for a fitting.
Every task carries its material: which veneer, which quantity, which supplier. The immutable material log documents every inventory movement, and the purchasing list shows in good time what is still missing.
To materials & procurementWhat sets manufacturers apart
One-off costing
with margin transparency per line item.
In a manufacturer's workshop, no piece is calculated like the other. Anyone who doesn't keep line-item-level costing is calculating on hope — and only discovers the mistake on the invoice.
Gantway digital desk — pieces grouped by finishing station with utilization
Every order, its own costing.
Dimensions, materials, type of execution, custom requests — everything flows into a structured cost breakdown that builds up order by order. No copy-paste spreadsheet from last year.
Custom request as a change order, not as a margin hole.
If an end customer or interior designer changes material or execution, Gantway adjusts the costing and makes the price difference immediately visible. That way you issue the change order before the piece is finished.
Post-costing as a learning loop.
After delivery, post-costing shows where hours and materials really went. Every piece improves your pricing for the next one — instead of estimating anew each time.
On-time delivery as a sales argument.
Private customers and interior designers recommend those who deliver reliably. Gantway makes delays visible early — so you can react before the customer asks.
Was das in Zahlen heißt
Marge, Auslastung, Termine —
an einem Ort.
From order intake to delivery — every phase, every station, every deadline. The plan stays stable even with lead times of several weeks.
- 8 zoom levels for detail and week views
- Tasks with finish-to-start dependencies
- Specialists assigned specifically
Gantway Gantt — individual pieces with finishing stations and staff utilization
FAQ
Frequently asked questions. Answered briefly.
Which software fits a manufacturer doing one-offs and small batches?
Gantway plans order-driven: every piece has its own flow of tasks with dependencies, capacity and materials. One-offs and small batches sit on the same planning surface — with utilization and conflicts at a glance.
How do I see whether an order paid off in the end?
With pre- and post-costing: you calculate labor, materials and machine costs per order and line item. As soon as the workshop gets to work, Gantway compares plan and actual — to the hour and the euro, without Excel rework.
Pre- and post-costing in detail Can we record who is trained on the CNC?
Yes. Qualifications live in each employee’s personnel record — planning sees who can do what and who is available when. A missing qualification shows up during planning, not at the machine.
Employees & qualifications in detail What does Gantway cost for a manufacturer?
Three plans based on active accounts; employees who are only scheduled are free. You can test for 14 days, free and without a credit card.
See pricing Is Gantway GDPR-compliant?
Yes. Data is stored on servers in Germany, a data processing agreement is standard. Access is governed by roles with individual permissions, and every change is recorded in an immutable audit log.
Permissions & audit in detailYour question wasn't answered?
Ask us directly — in a 30-minute demo or by message. A person answers, not a canned reply.
Or by email: kontakt@gantway.com
For manufacturers
who take pride in every piece.
If you build one-offs and small batches for demanding customers, you deserve a planning tool that understands the way you work — not one designed for mass production. Gantway is explained in a 15-minute demo.
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