The Shop Cut List and Remnant Rack

If you cut glass from sheets, your cutting table is where profit leaks. A 30 x 22 offcut leans against the wall until someone throws it out, and the next morning a full sheet gets broken for a 24 x 18 mirror that would have fit on it. Nobody writes down the breakage, and at the end of the year your glass count is off by a pallet.

The Shop Cut List fixes that. Every piece from every open job that's cut in your shop is on one list, grouped by glass type, largest first. It tells the cutter when a remnant on the rack is big enough, and asks for the offcut and the scrap as each piece is cut.

It's built for a tablet at the cutting table, and it refreshes itself while it's open.

How pieces get on the list

Only glass types marked Cut in our shop from sheet stock in your price list go on the cut list. Annealed glass, mirror and acrylic usually are; tempered, laminated and insulated glass is ordered made to size instead. See Setting up your glass price list.

On a job's Glass step, those pieces offer Cut from and a warehouse, with the square feet on hand there. When you Review and confirm, the piece goes on the cut list, its square feet are set aside from your sheet stock, and the job waits on its Shop step.

Sheet stock is counted in square feet

Glass is bought by the sheet but sold by the square foot, so Suprata keeps sheet stock in square feet. Give each glass type you cut its stock sheet size (say 96 x 130), and you get both:

On the cut list, each glass type shows In stock: 260 sq ft (about 3 sheets of 96 x 130). If the pieces still to cut need more than you have, it's flagged so you can order before you run out.
A 96 x 130 sheet is 86.67 sq ft. You don't need to work that out yourself.

Receiving by the sheet. When a delivery of sheet glass is received on its purchase order, each line has a Sheets box. Type the number of sheets that came in (3) and the square feet (260.00) are filled in for you. The Sheets to square feet calculator on the cut list does the same for anything else, such as a stock count. See Purchase orders: from request to receiving.

Working the cut list

Open Flat Glass → Shop Cut List. The tiles at the top show how many pieces are in the shop, the square feet still to cut and how many remnants are on the rack. Search by job number, mark or customer, or pick one glass type.

Each piece shows what the cutter needs and nothing else:

the mark and job number (2318-W3), the customer and where it goes;
the size, big;
the cut spec: edges, holes and notches with their positions, the shape;
chips for a Remake, a Shaped piece, the due date (red when it's late), and Use remnant 30 x 22 · rack B2 when one on the rack fits.

Every piece moves through three steps, tapped as they happen: Cut → Edged → Ready. A piece with no edgework still taps through Edged; it's one tap.

Cut

Tapping Cut asks three quick questions, and they're what keep your stock honest:

Cut from: a remnant that fits (the smallest one first, with the suggested one marked), or A full sheet.
Offcut to keep: the width, height and rack spot of what's left over. Offcuts at least 6" on both sides go on the remnant rack. Anything smaller is scrap, and its square feet are added to the scrap figure for you.
Scrap (sq ft): waste from this cut, written off your sheet stock.

Then Mark as cut.

Ready

Ready means the piece is finished and can go to the job. When the last piece for a job is marked ready, you're asked to confirm, because that moves the job on to scheduling and texts the customer that their glass is in. If the job also has glass on order, it waits for that first.

Tapped the wrong step? Back a step undoes it, as long as the rest of the job is still in the shop.

The job's own Shop step shows the same pieces with the same steps, for the office.

The remnant rack

The Remnant rack panel lists every remnant by glass type, with its size, square feet and rack location. Offcuts kept while cutting land here by themselves. Use Add for one that wasn't recorded at the time.

Using remnants is automatic: when a piece fits on one, the cut list says so, and choosing it when you cut takes it off the rack.

Scrap takes a remnant off the rack and writes its square feet off as waste. Do it when you clear out the rack, so the rack matches what's actually leaning against the wall.

Remnants aren't extra stock. They were cut from sheets you already counted, so their square feet are part of your sheet stock figure, and scrapping one takes it off.

Writing off scrap

Breakage happens outside of a cut, too: a sheet dropped off the cart, a corner chipped in the rack. Log scrap writes off any amount of any glass type you keep in stock, with a note of what happened.

Scrap is recorded as a stock adjustment (used in the shop), so it shows on the stock movement report and your inventory value stays right. Glass that isn't kept in stock has no sheet stock to write off, so its waste is noted in the job's history instead.

Settings worth a look

In Workflows → Flat Glass Settings, on the Workflow tab:

Keep offcuts as remnants when both sides are at least (in): 6" by default. Raise it to 10" or 12" if your rack fills up with strips nobody uses.
The Shop step can be switched off if you never cut glass yourself.

Common mistakes

Skipping the scrap question. "It's only a few square feet" adds up to hundreds a year. If scrap isn't recorded, your stock count says you have glass you don't have, and you find out halfway through a cut.

Cutting a full sheet when a remnant fits. The green Use remnant chip is there for a reason. Check it before you break a new sheet.

Keeping every offcut. A rack full of 7" strips is a rack nobody looks at. Set the minimum to what your shop actually reuses, and scrap the rest when you cut.

Typing sheets into the quantity. "3" in the received quantity means 3 sq ft. Use the Sheets box, which works out the square feet.

Marking a piece ready before it's edged. Ready tells the customer their glass is in. If it isn't, you'll have booked an install for a piece that isn't finished.

Not giving cut glass a sheet size. Without one, the cut list can't count your stock in sheets, and receiving by the sheet doesn't work.