Inventory & materials
Know what is on site, installed, and wasted.
Fortera gives materials a single canonical catalogue and tracks stock as on-hand, installed and wasted, with reorder and dead-stock thresholds and warnings before a delivery overruns storage or lands out of sequence.
In plain terms
Construction inventory management software tracks materials from purchase to installation: what has been received, what is on hand in the store or godown, what has been consumed on the building, and what has been wasted. Because material is often the single largest cost on a project, and 5 to 15% of it is typically wasted, accurate stock and wastage tracking directly protects margin.
What you get
Everything in Fortera's inventory & materials.
Canonical material catalogue
One SKU library that every other module speaks, so procurement, stock and billing all mean the same thing by "cement" or "8mm steel".
On-hand, installed, wasted
Stock tracked in three states, not one, so you see real consumption and wastage against what was purchased.
Reorder and dead-stock alerts
Thresholds that flag a material before it runs out, and dead stock that has sat too long tying up cash.
Storage and sequencing warnings
Alerts before a delivery overruns available storage or arrives out of the sequence the site needs it in.
Goods receipt and match
Every receipt tracked against its purchase order, feeding the three-way match before any bill is paid.
Wastage visibility
Wastage surfaced per material against industry norms (cement around 14%, steel around 7%, sand around 25%), so leaks are seen, not absorbed.
Who it's for
Built for the way you work.
- Builders holding significant material stock across sites and godowns
- Store and site teams recording receipts and consumption
- Owners focused on protecting margin from material wastage
Questions & answers
Inventory & materials, answered.
- Does it track material wastage?
- Yes. Stock is tracked as on-hand, installed and wasted, so consumption and wastage are visible against what was purchased. Wastage is surfaced against industry norms, cement around 14%, steel around 7%, sand around 25%, so leaks show up instead of being absorbed into cost.
- How does inventory connect to procurement and billing?
- Everything shares one canonical material catalogue. A purchase order, a goods receipt, the stock on hand and the vendor bill all refer to the same SKU, which is what makes the three-way match and accurate cost control possible.
- Does it warn about storage and dead stock?
- Yes. Fortera flags a delivery before it overruns available storage or arrives out of sequence, and it surfaces dead stock that has sat too long, so cash is not quietly locked up in the godown.
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