Logistics · kits, inventory and site layout

The right material, on the right floor, before the crew arrives.

Kits with a place in the site storeroom, requisitions that pull the kit to the work front, a PFEP that says when to buy and when to receive, and the site checked on a 5S walk. All on the same project as the schedule and the budget, with no separate module.

Run the numbers with logistics included

Logistics comes with every planOn every plan · one project free, no credit card · on paid plans, you pay per engineering team member, with unlimited projects and field crew: on Canteiro, per month for one person.

Kanban · the kit supermarket and the FRM

Every kit has a place on the shelf. The front pulls it through the requisition.

Each kit is the bill of materials for a work package: material, quantity, cost, supplier and how each item goes up. If a material goes up by tower crane or rack-and-pinion hoist, the whole kit inherits the requirement. Each active kit gets the QR label for its shelf in the site storeroom. Whoever needs it can request the whole kit instead of item by item.

The request is the Material Requisition Form (FRM), on the web or in the phone's Logistics screen, always with the delivery location: tower and floor. The requester signs, the form generates a QR code and whoever can accept it is notified. If the kit requires hoisting, the form requests the trip. Acceptance reserves the stock. When the material leaves the site storeroom, whoever accepts requisitions records the withdrawal, and stock is deducted at that point. If no one records the withdrawal, it is deducted on delivery. Never twice. The QR code is valid once to accept and once to confirm the transport. The requester is notified when the material arrives.

Watch the 3rd-floor kit arrive · 27 sIllustration with demo data

Approving an FRM on the web: who requested it, the delivery location (tower and floor), the QR code, the blurred selfie and the formalization signature, the notice that the kit goes up by hoisting with the trip already scheduled, the requested kit, the history and the stock and PFEP coverage alert, with the Reject and Accept Requisition buttons — The FRM on the web: the approver sees the stock coverage before accepting.

On the kanban: the Requisition Kanban has its own page in Logistics, on the web and on the phone. Each form, for a material or a kit, is a card. The default columns are Awaiting approval, Approved, Withdrawn, Transfer approved and Supplied to the floor. Transfer approved is the form's trip executed in Scheduling; a form with no trip skips that column. Each column can have a deadline in hours, and the card color shows how long it has been there: on time, due soon or overdue. By default, only the last column has no deadline. On the web, dragging the card moves the form to its next step, with the same permission. Each project can change columns and deadlines and publish its configuration as the company default.

On the board: a kit requisition colors in that floor's cell on the Supply Board. Once formalized, the cell shows “Requested”. Once accepted, “Reserved / Picking”. Once delivered, “Supplied”, with the quantity. How many kits each zone needs comes from the board configuration. If no one changes it, it is 1; for a kit that varies by floor plan, it is 1 per unit of that plan in the zone. When the zone needs more than one, delivering fewer shows “Partially supplied”. Delivering more than it needs shows “Excess Release”. The board reads from bottom to top, the way the building goes up, and shows how far the kit stock reaches. At the top of each kit, it says how many kits are in stock.

The Supply Board on the web: the floors of a tower, from the Ground floor to the 18th, in the rows, and one kit in each column (the row with the kit names is cropped out). On the lower floors, many cells carry the ✓ supplied mark, from work packages already completed in the schedule; others are blue, purple, red or hatched in orange with a dashed circle, where the stock in the yard covers the zone. Below, the legend of the nine statuses — The Supply Board on the web: each column is a kit, each row a floor, read from bottom to top.

In the worker app, the request enters the same acceptance queue, without a signature and without the hoisting trip, which stays with engineering. The location already comes from the zone in the day's plan. With no activity scheduled, the worker chooses the location and requests the same way.

The same requisition in the phone's Logistics screen: pending, with the delivery location, the requested kit, the QR code, the blurred selfie and the formalization signature, and the history — The FRM, with the QR code

The Supply Board on the phone: the floors of a tower in the rows and, at the top of each column, the kit, how many are in stock and the material that is the bottleneck. Almost all the cells of the gas kit are hatched in orange with a dashed circle, and the ground floor is green — The Board on the phone

The material request in the worker app: the Request material button and the requests, with the location and status of each one — Request · worker app

PFEP · from the schedule to the gate

The project pulls the material. The PFEP says when to buy and when to receive.

The production pace comes out of the schedule together with the kits: how many zones each work package starts per week. That demand is what pulls logistics. The supply plan says how much of each material, in packaging units (SKUs), needs to be at the point of use each week, and how much yard space that takes up. The receiving plan is the same matrix, shifted back by the supplier's lead time. The lead time counts your project's working days, on the same calendar as the RDO and the schedule. A material with no lead time registered shows up flagged, arriving in its own week of use: that is a missing lead time, not a delivery promise.

Watch the block arrive in the right week · 28 sIllustration with demo data

The PFEP Receiving plan: each material on a row, with the lead time in working days, the supplier where there is one and the total SKUs, and the weeks in the columns, with how many SKUs should arrive in each; the highest-volume weeks in darker green — The receiving plan: each material in the week it needs to arrive, already shifted back by the lead time.

Each PFEP material has four stock bands: critical, low, adequate and excess. The top of the low band is the reorder point. When the available stock crosses that point, whoever handles the PFEP and Purchasing gets the alert. Excess shows up too: it is capital and yard space sitting idle.

The Model Zone Demand in the PFEP: the ten materials with the highest daily consumption, with consumption per zone, daily consumption and the quantity in the field in SKUs, the reorder point, the stock band (Low Stock or Excess) and the Order mark on those that need replenishing. Below, how many materials there are in each of the four bands: critical, low stock, adequate and excess — The Model Zone Demand: each material's reorder point and band, and which ones to order.

And hoisting: each week's demand for vertical trips against the registered capacity of the tower crane and the rack-and-pinion hoist. A week that goes over capacity turns red.

The PFEP Vertical Trip Sizing: the hoisting demand curve, with the weight and number of trips each week, and the peak-week warning against the installed capacity. Below, the Hoisting Mode Simulator compares rack-and-pinion hoist, tower crane and mini crane: capacity, speed, cycle, height, reach, hours per day, utilization and cost per month — Hoisting week by week, the peak week and the hoisting mode simulator.

In the schedule, Work Front Preparation shows, through the kits, whether the work package's material is in stock. Only reserving the kit for that zone confirms the coverage.

Layout management · site, storeroom, carts and 5S

Every material has a place. The 5S walk checks that it's there.

There are six layout standards: typical floor, logistics carts, site, storeroom, supply and processes. Over an image of the floor plan or the location, you mark the areas with rectangles, circles, lines, arrows and polygons, and write the legend. Logistics carts include each cart's safe path, the forklift route, the position of the rack-and-pinion hoist and the loading and unloading points. Supply includes the reference photos for bagged, palletized and bulk materials.

Watch the walk clear the route · 29 sIllustration with demo data

The draft doesn't change the standard in use. Publishing creates a revision with a justification, and the previous one stays in the history. Whoever sees Layout Management is notified of the new revision.

The Residencial Horizonte site layout editor: the draft with the Save draft and Publish revision buttons, the shapes and colors bar and, over the schematic plan, the marked areas — block yard, bagged materials, bulk materials, storeroom, loading and unloading, and the cart route arrow to the rack-and-pinion hoist —, with the legend for each one alongside — The site layout in the editor: the areas over the plan, with the legend. The draft only counts once it is published.

On the 5S walk, each legend item goes through the five questions, from Seiri to Shitsuke. Adherence to the layout is the Seiton score. A month without a walk has no assessment: it doesn't become zero.

The 5S walk on the tablet, on the Cart route item: Seiri, Seiso, Seiketsu and Shitsuke checked and Seiton unchecked, with the note “Cement bags outside the bagged-materials area”. At the top, the score preview: Seiton and adherence of 83.3% and overall of 96.7% — The 5S walk on the tablet: each legend item goes through the five questions, and the unchecked Seiton lowers adherence.

On the dashboard, the 5S trend and each layout's adherence, month by month. In the portfolio, the projects side by side.

The 5S trend for the Canteiro — Fase Alvenaria (site, masonry phase) layout in 2026: one line per S, from July to October, rising month by month; the note explains that only completed walks count and that a month with no assessment stays blank, never zero — The 5S trend, month by month, for the chosen layout. A month without a walk has no assessment.

Inventory management · from the gate to the shelf

In through a single receipt, out through the label or the FRM. There is only one balance.

Everything that arrives goes through a single receipt. With the invoice, the entry carries the invoice number and unit price, and the stock is valued. If the project has a purchase order with an open balance for that material, the entry with an invoice can be applied against the order item, and the order moves to partially received or received. An invoice above the order price alerts whoever tracks purchasing. Without an invoice, it comes in as a physical entry. Both go into the same movement ledger. Incoming loads sit in Delivery Scheduling, with day and time, and loads for the tower crane or rack-and-pinion hoist also with the equipment. The day before, whoever handles receiving gets the list of the next day's deliveries.

The Receiving tab in Inventory: the material CP-II cement 50kg, 20 bags at R$ 36.50 from invoice NF-2026-0001, the unit value required with an invoice and, below, Apply against order with order PC-0042, which still has 100 bags to receive, and the Confirm receipt with invoice button — Receiving with an invoice: the invoice number and unit value and, if there is an order with an open balance, the item it is applied against.

Reading a QR code in Delivery Scheduling on the phone: the camera area with the crosshair, the field to paste or type the code and the Confirm Receipt and Cancel buttons — Delivery Scheduling · QR reading

On the shelf, the QR label goes straight to the stock withdrawal, with the balance in front of you. Withdrawing a kit withdraws each of its materials, and the screen shows the list before you confirm. If the withdrawal asks for more than the balance, only what is available goes out, and the screen warns you: the balance never goes negative. The code on a label that is already stuck on never changes.

Reading the label for Kit — 1. Masonry: what leaves stock with each kit (ceramic block, cement, sand, lime and tie mesh), with each material's balance alongside, the How many kits out field and the Withdraw button — Reading the label: what leaves stock with each kit, with each material's balance, before the withdrawal.

Watch the invoice come in and the kit go out · 28 sIllustration with demo data

The Movements tab in Inventory: the Read label, Download labels and Receipt by Photo buttons and the movement ledger, immutable, with the date, type, material, quantity, origin and zone of each row: the reservations of an FRM approved for the 3rd floor, the reservation, withdrawal and cleared reservation of another FRM, reservations returned by cancellation and entries by invoice — The movement ledger: every reservation, withdrawal and entry, with the origin and the zone.

On the logistics dashboard: the inventory value, the storage area occupied (against the free area, when the available area is registered), the longest forecast delivery lead time against the measured one and the four bands of the PFEP materials.

The project's logistics dashboard: the summary (PFEP items, FRMs, materials with a balance, active layouts, loads to schedule), the storage area used against the free area, the longest forecast lead time against the measured one and the stock by PFEP band — The logistics dashboard: the storage area, the forecast × measured lead time and the PFEP bands.

Consumables and Freight Control compares budgeted with consumed, zone by zone, with the waste on both bases, and budgeted freight with freight paid.

Run the numbers · no separate module

Put what you pay today on the scales, with logistics included.

Kits, requisitions, PFEP, inventory and layouts come on the same plan as planning, budgeting and quality. There is no module sold separately. You pay for the engineering team members who use the system in the office; projects and field crew don't count toward the bill.

Reading the packing list by photo is usage-based, bought separately by volume, and is not included in the free account. Without it, the receiving items are entered by hand.

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