For cabinet shops
At last everyone knows
where each order stands.
Twelve one-offs, four stations, eight employees — and the next assembly date in three weeks. Gantway shows you at a glance what is running, what is stalling and who is at which station tomorrow.
Gantway digital desk — orders, stations and employees in board mode with utilization display
From measuring to delivery: every order, every station, every employee in one view.
A typical cabinet shop
Complex enough
to lose the overview.
No operation of this size fails for lack of skill — but because the measuring notes, the workshop status and the assembly date never come together in one picture.
Das Problem
What really holds
cabinet shops up.
Measuring done — and then it sits in the van.
The dimensions are in a notebook or as a photo on the phone. Days pass before that turns into a production order with a material list and schedule. During that time nothing starts at the workbench.
Who does what at which station tomorrow?
Eight employees, four stations, twelve orders in different phases. The master craftsman answers the question "who is scheduled for what tomorrow" every evening from memory — instead of from a plan.
Orders pile up in front of the finishing room.
Sanding, oiling, painting: all orders have to go through there. Who gets in first is decided by gut feeling. Bottlenecks only become visible once the piece is already waiting.
Restoration jobs: you only see the margin at the end.
With repair and restoration work, the effort can rarely be estimated cleanly in advance. Hours run against the order, material is consumed — but against what baseline? The surprise only comes at billing.
Delivery date promises without a planning basis.
The customer asks: "When will it be ready?" The master craftsman estimates. Because whether the date is realistic depends on what is currently in the workshop — and that is captured visibly nowhere.
Wie Gantway hilft
Gantway solves
the cabinet shop problems.
Tasks with status badges inside an order
The measuring appointment immediately becomes an order.
After measuring, someone enters dimensions and requirements — Gantway creates the order with status "Measuring received", starts the parts list and puts it into the workshop view. No note gets lost.
To order managementStation utilization with traffic-light colors in Gantway
Workshop board: who does what, where.
The digital desk shows all twelve orders across eight zoom levels — from the day overview down to the individual order. Drag & drop on the tablet, utilization via traffic-light color. The master craftsman sees immediately who still has capacity tomorrow.
To the digital deskStation overload as a conflict marker
Spot conflicts before they get expensive.
The conflict engine automatically checks whether two orders claim the same employee or the same station at the same time. Six conflict types, prioritized by urgency, with a proposed solution — no unwelcome bottleneck.
To the conflict enginePlanned and actual values as KPI tiles in controlling
Restoration costing shift by shift.
Hours run via the time clock directly onto the restoration order. The pre- and post-costing shows you target/actual color-coded — by labor, materials and machine. The surprise at billing is gone.
To pre- and post-costingStaff pool for assigning by drag & drop
Schedule specialists specifically.
Restorer, fine carver, finishing expert: not everyone can do everything. When assigning tasks, Gantway automatically checks whether the necessary qualifications are present — and warns before the wrong employee is scheduled.
To staff & qualificationsOrders in progress with progress bars
Materials aggregated — one wholesaler trip is enough.
No batch order has the same material requirement. Gantway combines the open ordering needs of all active orders. You see one list, order once — and the saw runs without interruption.
To materials & procurementWhat makes cabinet shop planning special
Measuring to assembly
as a continuous chain.
Cabinet shops produce one-offs to measure — every order has its own logic, its own material requirement, its own path through the stations. That makes backwards planning from the assembly date a core competency.
Gantway Gantt — cabinet shop orders like Solid Oak Shelf and Kitchen Müller with staff utilization
Measuring as an order status
Gantway knows the status "Measuring pending" and "Measuring received" as a fixed part of the order workflow. That way every measuring appointment lands in the planning board immediately — and not three days later on a note.
Task dependencies along the stations
Finishing can only begin once sanding is complete. Assembly requires that the fittings have been delivered. Gantway maps these dependencies and automatically locks follow-up steps as long as earlier stages are open.
Plan backwards from the assembly date
The installation date at the customer is fixed. Gantway calculates backwards: when at the latest does it have to be milled, sanded, oiled? And raises the alarm when another order threatens to close this time window.
Buffer for drying and waiting times
Panel glue-ups, staining, oiled surfaces: these phases belong in the workflow as planned tasks with a time buffer. Gantway treats them like regular workshop steps — visible, plannable, no longer in the master craftsman's head.
Was das in Zahlen heißt
Marge, Auslastung, Termine —
an einem Ort.
Restoration and one-off orders are especially hard to cost. Gantway shows after every order where you really stand.
- Actual hours and materials per order
- Target/actual color-coded
- Baseline freezable for renegotiations
Gantway controlling — planned/actual comparison per cabinet shop order with margin in real time
FAQ
Frequently asked questions. Answered briefly.
Which software helps a cabinet shop commit to delivery dates reliably?
In Gantway every task knows its predecessors. When a work step shifts, dependent dates recalculate on their own — and whatever no longer fits, the conflict engine reports immediately, with a suggested solution. You see whether a date holds before you commit to it.
The conflict engine in detail Is production planning worth it for a cabinet shop with 10 employees?
Yes — Gantway is built precisely for businesses between 5 and 50 people: outgrown Excel and shouted instructions, but too small for heavy ERP. You start with orders and capacity and add materials, time tracking and costing when you are ready.
Can employees track their hours right in the workshop?
Yes. The digital time clock runs in the browser — including on a tablet or smartphone at the workbench. Working-time rules are checked in the background, and booked hours land directly on the right order, where they feed into post-costing.
Time tracking in detail What does Gantway cost for a cabinet shop?
Three plans, tiered by active accounts — people you only schedule cost nothing. Test free for 14 days without a credit card; after that pay monthly or annually.
See pricing Where is our data stored — and can we get it back?
Data is stored on servers in Germany, GDPR-compliant with a data processing agreement. Every list can be exported as CSV at any time — your data belongs to you, even if you leave.
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Your cabinet shop,
at last plannable and controllable.
Show us one of your active orders — we show you live how it runs from measuring to assembly in Gantway: stations, dependencies, capacities, costing. Not a sales pitch, but a concrete workshop test.
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