Your cut list gives you the panel, the door and the hinge. It never gives you the glue pellets, the 180 grit, or the catalyst that turn a stack of sheets into a finished kitchen. Arda puts a scannable card on every item you stock, consumable or not, so a scan fires the reorder and the booth is loaded before the doors come off the rack.
Your first 10 cards are free. Works alongside your ERP, no rip and replace.
Trusted by manufacturers including Rossmonster, Austere, and Fat Fender.
A stockout is a reorder that fired too late, or never fired at all. Count-based systems leave that trigger to a person, and people are busy. Arda makes the trigger physical: the card on the bin is the reorder, sized to your supplier's lead time, so replenishment starts the moment stock runs low and the shelf refills before the second bin runs dry. That works the same on a roll of edge banding, a case of acid catalyst, or a pallet of prefinished ply.
Scanning the empty bin is the fastest way to get more, so the reorder fires on its own, every time.
Reorder point and safety stock are set to your real burn rate and lead time, so the second bin always covers the wait.
When a job changes what you burn, you resize the card once. Nobody recalculates a min/max by hand.
The shelf did not fail. The signal did.
Cabinet shops run high-mix, one-off work with almost no system underneath it. The owner is still the purchasing department, ordering between a site visit, a quote and a punch list, and the items that stop a kitchen are the ones no cut list ever reaches.
Everything upstream can be resequenced. If the nest is short a sheet you cut something else, but a kitchen goes through the booth once, so an empty catalyst bottle or a loaded exhaust filter stops the only station that has no workaround. The shortage costs a $90 case and an install date the countertop template is stacked behind.
Catalyst is bought separately from the finish, has its own pot life once mixed, and is the one item on the shelf that is worthless alone. It is also the one nobody thinks of as stock, because it is not on the cut list, not in the quote, and not on any schedule.
Slides and hinges are quoted per job and stocked by habit, so the gap surfaces at install rather than in the shop. Boxes are built, doors are finished, the truck is loaded, and the crew opens the last carton to find four pair of undermount slides for a nine-drawer bank.
Arda puts a scannable card on every item you stock, starting with the ones no cut list ever reaches, so the scan fires the reorder on its own. No tallying, no purchase order to type, no ERP rollout. Scan a card, the material shows up. Cabinet shops are one of the trades covered by Arda's inventory replenishment software.
Consumables are where the pain is loudest, because a cut list gives you the panel and the hinge and never the glue pellets, the 180 grit, the catalyst, or the cone strainers that turn a stack of sheets into a finished kitchen. But the same card works on anything you stock, on-BOM or off. Put a card on it and the shortage disappears.
Every stocked item gets a durable card with a QR code, from a rack of edgeband rolls to a shelf of catalyst to a pallet of prefinished ply. A cabinetmaker or the finisher scans it with any phone, no extra hardware, no login friction.
The scan hits Arda's backend, which places the reorder at the right quantity from the right supplier. No purchase order to type.
Purchasing and the owner watch which cards are pulled, on order, or restocked across the bench, the booth and the panel line, without walking the floor.
Each card encodes a proven loop sized to your real consumption: reorder point, the two-bin system, min/max levels, and safety stock. The math lives on the card, not in someone's head.
Card it today, scan it tomorrow, and see the reorder fire without anyone walking the aisle. Expand across the booth, the edgebander and the slide-and-hinge shelf when it has proven itself.
Count-everything tools fail because they add a task. Arda removes one. That is what holds compliance past week one.
The card is the replenishment signal, on every item you stock. Nobody tallies stock or runs a cycle count to make the numbers real.
The simplest way to do the job is to scan the card, so compliance sticks where badge-in ERP screens lose the floor on day one.
No scanner gun, no new login, no training day. A cabinetmaker scans with the phone already in their pocket, so nothing new stands between them and the reorder.
Reorder point, min/max, and safety stock are baked into the card at the point of use, not buried in a back-office sheet that drifts the moment demand shifts.
One scan when a bin or a pail runs low, and the refill is already moving. Same motion at the bench, the edgebander and the booth.
Orders fire at the right quantity with no stack of manual POs, and every card's status is in one place.
Hands off reordering for good and gets the hours back for quoting and installs, with real consumption data across the whole shelf instead of gut feel.
None of these are cabinet shops, and one of them works wood every day. What they share with a cabinet shop is the operating model: every unit is effectively a custom job, the mix changes week to week, and the owner was the one doing the ordering.
Custom vehicle builder with an in-house wood shop, running maple slab door cabinetry, oak flooring and custom galley casework. Cards went on 100% of supplies inside a year, and holdings on critical components fell from 25+ to 5 while output went up 6×.
Read the Rossmonster case study →Heavy-industry fabricator of custom trucks and metalwork. Weekly stockouts gone, and the floor went from four builds at a time to eight in six months, without a bigger shop or a bigger team.
Read the Assembly Industrial case study →Precision machine shop. Doubled revenue and tripled throughput out of the same building and the same crew, after the reorder loop moved onto cards at the point of use.
Read the Austere case study →Most cabinet shops do not have an ERP. They have Cabinet Vision, Microvellum or Mozaik on the design side and QuickBooks on the money side, and the shelf is on nobody's screen at all. For the items that actually stop a kitchen, here is how the three real options stack up on the floor.
| Arda | ERP / cabinet software | Spreadsheet / memory | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signal to reorder | Scan a card, order fires automatically | Reports what a job consumed. Never places the order. | Someone remembers to look |
| Covers every stocked item | Yes, on-BOM and off, same card | Cut list items only. The glue pot and the booth sit outside it. | Only if updated by hand |
| Shop-floor compliance | High, scanning is the easy path | Low. The finisher does not open Cabinet Vision. | Low, depends on one person |
| Setup time | Start with one item in a day | Weeks of catalog, library and machine setup | Fast, but breaks as it grows |
| Works with your existing ERP | Yes, splices in, no rip and replace | It is the design and engineering system. Most shops have no ERP behind it. | Disconnected from everything |
| Cost to get started | $0 for your first 10 cards | License and training per workstation, none of it aimed at the shelf | Free, until a shortage moves an install date |
Weighing specific tools rather than whole approaches? The Arda Comparison Hub has side-by-side breakdowns against eTurns, Fishbowl, Katana, Cin7, Fastenal, Odoo, Sortly, and more.
No implementation project. Card a single item and the loop is running.
Free plan, no card required to try it. Paid plans add a 7-day trial.
Splices in alongside QuickBooks, NetSuite, Odoo, Xero and more. No rip and replace.
Priced per card, not per seat, so the whole floor can scan from day one.
Rossmonster had cards on 100% of supplies inside a year, with no purchasing hire and no rollout project. Start where it hurts most, on us, and let the shelf reorder itself.
Free plan, unlimited users, no ERP rollout.
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