Check what you last paid for an item before the LPO goes out
materialpro keeps the price history of every item you buy, from PPR and uPVC drainage pipe to water heaters, water tanks and booster pumps: what you last paid and your average. Before you award a supplier’s quotation, open the item’s price history beside it and you can see at a glance whether the quote is above what you usually pay. After that, every delivery note and invoice is checked against the LPO.
Three places plumbing and sanitary contractors lose money
- 01Heard on site
“We signed the DN. Then at first fix the plumbers found the elbows short and the tees the wrong PN.”
Check fittings against the LPO as the truck is unloaded
AI reads the delivery note, so the storekeeper only confirms what actually came off the truck. Short lines stay open on the LPO, and wrong items are refused with a reason and a photo.
Saves money|You pay only for fittings that arrived, and nobody retypes a long DN by hand.
- 02Heard on site
“The invoice came in for the full order. We’d only received part of it.”
Match every invoice to the LPO and the DNs before you pay
AI reads the invoice and checks each line, from sanitaryware and mixers to floor drains, against what was delivered and the LPO price. Any line that doesn’t match is flagged, and the whole invoice is held until you settle it with the supplier.
Saves money|Over-billing is stopped before payment, not chased at month end.
- 03Heard on site
“We had WC sets sitting in the other tower’s store. Nobody knew, so we ordered more.”
See every site store’s stock before you raise a new LPO
When the foreman raises a site requisition, it shows what each store holds. Take what you can from stock and raise the LPO only for the rest. Every transfer, issue and return is recorded.
Saves money|You stop buying twice what you already own, and stop phoning round the storekeepers.
Hours and money back, added up over a month
Quotes, LPOs, delivery notes, invoices and stock sit in one place, not in spreadsheets, paper DNs and WhatsApp groups. Here is a sample month.
Plumbing & Sanitary
Questions
Suppliers send DNs and invoices as PDFs or photos. Can the system read them?
Yes. The storekeeper or plumber takes a phone photo or uploads the PDF, and AI reads the items, quantities and prices into the delivery record or the invoice, whether it’s pipe and fittings or water heaters and pumps. You check the lines before anything is saved.
Does it handle VAT on our LPOs and invoices?
Yes. Set your company’s VAT rate once, 5% in the UAE, and it is applied to your documents. In Kuwait and Qatar, where there is no VAT, the rate stays at zero.
We run plumbing and drainage works on several sites from spreadsheets and WhatsApp. Do we have to switch everything at once?
No. Start with one site and one LPO. Add the other site stores when you’re ready; each keeps its own stock, and every transfer between them is recorded.
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