JobMat, Jobers' next launch: the new version of our ERP, almost ready

At Jobers we have spent more than twenty years building the ERP for many building materials, ceramics and distribution merchants. That ERP works and invoices every day in dozens of companies. And we already have in the oven the biggest step since we started: our next launch, JobMat, the new version of our ERP, 100% web, which is almost ready.

It is not a new screen on top of the classic ERP. It is a different program, built with everything we have learnt over the years. And we started it from the foundations.

First, the foundations: the shared pieces

Before writing a single JobMat screen, we spent a year building the pieces shared by all our applications: JobFinan, JobCRM, JobersDoc, JobIADoc, JobDeca, JobRutas… Each of them already uses these pieces, and JobMat is born with all of them in place:

🔐 One single login

Users, roles and permissions in a single place for every application. Customers add their own people and decide what each one sees.

💡 Suggestion box

A light bulb on every screen. What users write reaches us instantly, and we tell them how we solved it.

📖 A manual in every window

Each screen explains what every field is, what it is for and what it affects. It can also be downloaded as a PDF.

🧪 Test environment

We test every change on a copy of the customer's data, never on the real data.

🩺 Continuous monitoring

We keep an eye on servers, backups, disk space and errors before the customer notices anything.

🛡️ Secure on your premises

It runs in the cloud or on the customer's own server, with protected and signed code.

Whatever improves in one piece reaches every application at once. So JobMat does not start from scratch: it starts with a year of work already proven in production.

Moving to JobMat: no data migration and no sudden switch

Changing ERP is daunting, and rightly so: it holds all of the company’s information. That is why JobMat is designed to make the move as smooth as possible:

🗄️ No data to migrate

JobMat works on the same database as the classic ERP. Customers, items, invoices and the whole history are there from day one.

🤝 Both run side by side

There is no need to choose one or the other. The classic ERP and the new web ERP work at the same time on the same data: whatever is saved in one is seen in the other instantly.

⏳ A transition period

For a few months they run side by side, and everyone moves to JobMat at their own pace. Once the whole team works in the new web ERP, the classic ERP is simply retired.

In other words: there is no switch-over day, no migration weekends and no data to move from one program to another. Moving to the new web ERP is as harmless as starting to use it.

For customers of the classic ERP, the day JobMat comes out will simply be that: starting to use the new web ERP.

What it looks like: the supplier record

An example of what changes. In the classic ERP, a supplier record was just its data. In JobMat, its situation comes before its data: how much we buy from it, how its prices evolve, how much of its stock we hold in the warehouse and how we rate it.

Supplier dashboard in JobMat: purchases this year, monthly trend, share of sales and margin

Dashboard of a sample supplier. The data has been changed.

At a glance you can see whether we buy more or less than last year, which families and products weigh most, what share of our sales comes from its products and at what margin, and where it ranks against the other suppliers.

Purchase price trend, valued stock and supplier quality rating

Below, its price trend by family, its stock valued at cost and its quality rating.

There are two details we especially like:

The price index compares each item with itself, so you can see straight away whether a supplier has raised prices even if what we buy from it changes.
The idle stock warning: items we hold in the warehouse that have not been bought again in a year. It is money standing still that nobody was looking at.

JobFinan, the financial side, already running

The financial side of the family, JobFinan, is already in production at several customers. It is the same way of doing things: the important figure first, and well presented.

JobFinan home page with the company's financial situation

Profit and loss account in JobFinan

Profit and loss trend in JobFinan

What comes next

JobMat is almost ready: suppliers, items, customers, purchasing, warehouse and sales, each screen with its dashboard and its manual. We will announce its launch here very soon.

If you use our ERP and want to know when JobMat will reach you, or you would like to see it, write to us. We will show it to you.