Shipping, crates & finishing

How to coordinate painting and anodizing

Painting and anodizing need a services calendar: what left, who has it, when it is due back, and which project it blocks. Spectr’s services calendar schedules those providers by date, project, and vendor, next to production and shipping timelines.

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Key facts

Finish lead time is often longer than fabrication. It belongs on the same plan.
Spectr’s ship module is where the services calendar lives in the public product story.
“We sent it” without contents is how racks come back short.
A late anodizer should move the ship window in the same system, not in a text thread.

How shops handle this

Create the service task when you know the finish
Do not wait until the rack is on the truck to the coater.
Send a contents list with the load
The vendor should sign the same list you will receive against.
Watch the calendar against install dates
This is last-trade math.
Receive back into containers
Finished goods are not “somewhere in receiving.”

Common questions

Multiple coaters?

That is why the calendar is by provider, not one column called “paint.”

Is this the same as an outside operation in a generic ERP?

Same cousin. Facade shops need it across many projects and site dates, not one routing step.

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