Help Center · Rubber factories
How can we help you run your factory?
Step-by-step guides for rubber mats, sheets, gaskets and moulded parts, with screenshots from a real gym-mat factory set-up.
New to Trakto? Follow these in order
- Your day in Trakto: the entries and the checks4 min
- How Trakto works in a rubber factory3 min
- Create a product with all its variants4 min
- Decide first: record compound, or only mats?4 min
- Purchase entries with freight: the landed rate3 min
- Log production: mats in, materials out3 min
- Estimates for quoting: the cost of every variant today4 min
Getting started
How Trakto fits a moulding factory, shifts, store and team.
- Your day in Trakto: the entries and the checksWhat gets entered each day and by whom, when to order material, and the ten-minute check that drives your decisions.
- How Trakto works in a rubber factoryThe daily loop from purchase to dispatch, and what Draft and Live mean.
- Set up shifts, holidays and your storeProduction dates and times fill themselves in once shifts are set.
- Team, roles and who sees costsGive the purchase team purchase rates, the sales team selling rates, and keep margins private.
Items & recipes
Mat variants, units, compound recipes, scrap and opening stock.
- Create a product with all its variantsOne parent item, attributes like thickness and pattern, a SKU for every variant.
- Units: weight in kg on every matMark the Weight attribute as kg, and when to use alternate units.
- Decide first: record compound, or only mats?Pick your route before you set anything up, then build one flow and spend your time on BOMs.
- Route A: record only mats (phantom compound)Build Compounding → Pressing on the mat once; log only mats and let Trakto deduct every raw material.
- Route B: record compound batches too (compound as SFG)Two flows: the compound's mixing flow, and the mat's press flow that takes it with a loading weight. Every batch tracked.
- One compound, several recipes, each with its batch costPremium, standard and economy mixes for the same compound, and which one a batch used.
- Flash and scrap that lower your costRecord flash per shift and credit its value against every mat.
- Enter the stock you already haveRaw materials through one GRN; finished mats through Opening Stock.
Buying
Purchase entries with freight, stock runway and purchase orders.
- Purchase entries with freight: the landed rateSpread freight over the material so costing uses what it really cost.
- Find your stock: on hand, net, variants, spares and the ledgerRead the stock panel, group 72 variants by thickness, show only spares, and see every movement.
- Order rubber before the mill stopsStock runway from actual use, stock-out date after a PO arrives, and creating POs.
Orders & production
Sales orders, work orders, machine planning and production logs.
- Sales order to work order: why both, and howThe sales order is what the customer wants; a work order is what the factory makes, one item at a time.
- Reading a sales order: made, ready, left to shipWhat the order bars really measure, the pending KPIs, and how to share stock between orders.
- When will this order be ready?Queue work orders on each press and get ready dates from real speed and shifts.
- Shift targets and missed-target reasonsSet targets per shift or by time on each work order step, and review which were missed and why.
- Log production: mats in, materials outTwo ways to log finished mats, rejects and the shift's flash.
- Enter exactly what material was usedPick the formulation and type actual kg per material on Confirm materials.
Dispatch & stock
Weighbridge dispatch, reconciliation and stock value.
Costing & reports
Cost per variant, overheads, month close and profit.
- Estimates for quoting: the cost of every variant todayCost → Costing: recipe × latest landed rates + overheads − scrap credit, per SKU, to quote on current prices.
- Actual cost of every log, day by dayDashboard → Costing: each production log's real materials, overheads and scrap credit per mat.
- What your stock is worth: lots, FIFO and cost per matInventory → item → Costing: raw materials lot by lot at their landed rates, and the actual cost of every mat in stock.
- Overheads: how rent and wages reach every matCost categories, the calculation, units, spreading big bills, consumables, and locking the month.
- Where the money is: revenue vs profitSales & Margin by customer, region and variant, built from real dispatch costs, to decide where to focus.
Still stuck?
Book a set-up call. We'll configure your compound, variants and machines with you.