Stop the back-order before it stops your site

One missing item on the order list turns into a phone call from the site, a crane standing still, and a second truck. Koto builds the order list from your BIM model by rule, every time, so nothing gets left off. Preventing back-orders starts with a list that is right.

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The missing line nobody catches until the truck arrives

It is never bad luck. The order list gets built by hand: someone opens the model, counts what they see, and adds the rest from memory. The bracket that goes with that beam. The membrane strip around that opening. Those rules live in one person's head, not on the list. A busy week, a new hire, and one line disappears. Nobody notices until a crew on site opens the crate and the part isn't there. Failure costs in construction run 5 to 15% of revenue, against margins of 2 to 3%. One back-order easily costs €2,000 to €5,000.

The list is built by hand from the model, then finished from memory.
The rule for what to add is not written down anywhere, it lives with one person.
For a modular manufacturer, the miss doesn't wait in a shed. It ships out on the unit, unfinished.

The real cost of one back-order

One back-order is rarely a single, simple cost. The incident stacks up to easily €2,000 to €5,000.

The phone call from site

The crew stands idle while they wait for the missing piece.

The crane

Rented, and it keeps billing by the hour, waiting included.

The extra transport

A full truck sent out for one element.

The reschedule

Deliveries and crews for the rest of the week shift along with it.

How Koto builds a list that does not forget

Configure the rules once

You define, per element type and project type, which extra items belong on the order list: brackets, fixings, membrane, trim. Configure once, then it runs automatically on every project.

Koto reads your model

Every new project runs through the same configured pipeline, whether the model is Vertex BD native, comes from Revit via IFC, or another IFC source.

The rules add what isn't modelled

Fixings, consumables and accessories that never appear as geometry in the 3D model get added by the rule Koto was configured with, not by memory.

One complete list, every time

Export to Excel or CSV in your own column format, or send it straight to Odoo. Same rules, same completeness, project after project.

See it on your own model

Koto runs live at construction companies today. In a demo we take your own model, run it through a pipeline and you watch your own complete order list come out. Real output, not slides. One prevented back-order, easily worth €2,000 to €5,000, pays for months of Koto.

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Works with what you already have

Koto reads the model you already build. No new CAD, no new ERP, no lock-in.

Output in your own column formats. Your data stays yours: switch CAD or ERP, and your Koto pipelines keep working.

Questions about back-orders and Koto

More than the part itself. A crane waiting, a driver sent back for a second load, a crew standing idle until the missing item arrives. One incident easily runs €2,000 to €5,000. Failure costs like this run 5 to 15% of revenue in construction, against margins of 2 to 3%. A handful of avoided back-orders a year covers a lot.

Not everything that belongs on an order list is drawn in the BIM model. Fixings, consumables and standard accessories usually are not. Koto's pipelines apply configured rules on top of the model, so those items get added automatically, based on what is there, not on what someone remembers to add by hand.

A manual check still depends on one person remembering the same rule, the same way, every time. It works until someone is on holiday, a new project type shows up, or it is the fortieth list of the month. Koto's rules do not get tired and do not forget.

You configure the rules once, per project type, together with our team. From there every new project runs through the same pipeline automatically. Koto is live today, running production order lists for customers.