Industry
Switchgear manufacturing software and ERP
Switchgear assembly combines engineered-to-order design with documentation obligations that outlive the delivery. Zaptiz handles both: bills of material generated per assembly, component traceability from purchase through build, quality records against the job, and GST-compliant despatch.
LV and MV assemblies
Per-assembly bills of material with your own component catalogue, ratings and configurations.
Component traceability
Purchase, goods receipt, supplier invoice and build kit linked, so you can answer what went into a given panel.
Quality records
Checklists completed per job before despatch and retained with it, not filed on a clipboard.
Documents you control
Design your test certificates, despatch notes and terms in the Template Center, in your own format.
Engineered to order, documented for years
Switchgear work has two characteristics that most manufacturing software handles badly. Each assembly is engineered for the order, so there is no fixed bill of material to plan against. And the obligation does not end at despatch — the record of what was built, what was tested and what components were fitted has to survive long enough to answer a question years later.
Software built for repetitive production optimises the wrong thing, and a spreadsheet gets the estimating done but leaves no durable record of the build.
The assembly is the unit of record
In Zaptiz the work order for an assembly carries its own bill of material, its own purchases and its own quality record. That means the question 'what is in this panel' has a specific answer, tied to the components actually bought and received for it rather than a generic design document.
Because purchases are linked through goods receipt notes and supplier invoices, that answer extends backwards to which supplier provided a component and at what price — which is what you need when a device turns out to be faulty across a batch.
- Bills of material per assembly, generated from drawings or built from a standard template.
- Purchase orders, GRNs and supplier invoices linked to the job that consumed them.
- Quality checklists completed and retained before despatch is allowed.
- Despatch documentation and GST invoice produced from the same lines that were built.
Standard designs without repetitive re-entry
Most switchgear businesses have a set of standard configurations that recur with variations — feeder sizes, incomer ratings, metering options. Rebuilding the component list for each repeat is pure waste.
Panel templates capture the standard once. A new order starts from the template and changes only what differs, so the estimator's time goes into the variation rather than the common core, and the standard stays consistent across jobs and across estimators.
Pricing that survives volatile components
Copper, breakers and semiconductors have all moved sharply in recent years. A quotation priced from a costing sheet last updated two quarters ago is a margin loss waiting to be discovered at invoice time.
Zaptiz prices from live supplier price lists, and those lists are kept current by OCR import — upload the distributor's PDF and hundreds of prices update in one pass. Lines with no price on file are flagged rather than treated as free.
Frequently asked questions
Does Zaptiz handle both LV and MV assembly work?
Yes. The bill of material, routing and documentation model does not care about the voltage class — what changes is your component catalogue, your test regime and the documentation you issue. All three are things you configure rather than things the software fixes.
Can we trace which components went into a specific assembly?
Yes. The build kit is tied to the work order, purchases are linked to the goods receipt and supplier invoice, and the quality checklist is recorded against the job. When a customer asks what was fitted in a panel delivered last year, the record is on file rather than in a folder.
Do you support type-test and routine-test documentation?
Quality checklists are completed per job and retained, and the Template Center lets you design the documents you issue — test certificates, despatch notes, warranty terms — in your own format. Zaptiz stores and produces your documentation; it does not certify compliance on your behalf.
We assemble to a licensor's design. Does that fit?
It fits well. Panel templates capture a standard design once, and each order becomes a variation of it, so you are not rebuilding the same bill of material for every repeat assembly.
How does this help with component price volatility?
Copper and semiconductor prices move, and a quote built on stale costs erodes margin silently. Supplier price lists are imported by OCR from distributor PDFs, and quotations price from those current lists, so what you quote reflects what you will pay.