The project network
CALS connects the network
A project runs on the information its least connected party has. CALS is built to be joined: suppliers, the warehouse, logistics partners and subcontractors are invited in by email, each sees the part that belongs to their own work, and none of them pays to take part. So the network tends to grow to cover the whole project instead of stopping at the main contractor. Every event a party records for itself, whether a confirmed delivery, a signed receipt or a call-in from a work phase, makes the picture more complete for everyone else.
CALS Site Management
The yard does not jam by accident
Loads, concrete deliveries, lifts and yard work go into one calendar, and every contractor books a time and an unloading point. When a delivery is announced in advance, traffic can be directed for it and the lifting routes stay clear.
On a site yard this is a safety question as much as an efficiency one: congestion is a risk, and a waiting truck is a cost.
CALS Site Management
The instruction travels with the task
Work orders are received, scheduled and signed off digitally, and the state of each task stays current without separate reporting.
The safety instruction belongs to the task and has to be read before the task can be started. It reaches the person doing the work rather than a folder nobody opens.
CALS Site Management
Deviations that are worth recording get recorded
Logging a deviation is quick enough that the small ones go in too. They can be filtered by contractor, so costs land where they belong — and across several projects they say something about who logistics has actually worked well with.
“Hauled and moved materials are photographed into the system when they reach their destination. Nine times out of ten, goods that have gone missing are found because of those pictures — you know where they have been and what the packaging looks like.”
Matias Helenius, Logistics Engineer, Carinafour
CALS Supply Chain Management
Plans become need data
Design data turns into need by space and work phase, so ordering follows the work schedule rather than an estimate of it. Deliveries are routed to the point of use, not only to the site gate.
CALS Supply Chain Management
Order, confirmation and delivery in one view
Orders and availability checks are made digitally with the supplier. Colour coding carries the status, so a missing confirmation or a delivery date that has moved shows while there are still alternatives.
CALS Warehouse Management
Every event knows who, when and which batch
Receipts, transfers and picking are recorded on mobile at the moment they happen, so the balance corrects itself immediately and the site does not call in material that is not there.
When material goes missing or is damaged, the investigation starts from the event chain rather than from guesswork. On projects where responsibility changes hands several times on the way to the wall, that is the difference between a claim and an argument.
CALS Warehouse Management
Warehouse portal, or warehouse management?
The warehouse portal is included in CALS Supply Chain Management and is enough when one intermediate store serves one project and material moves on call-in. CALS Warehouse Management is for many item codes, your own warehouse staff, material moving between projects, or events that need tracing at batch and location level.
The portal tells you the quantity; warehouse management also tells you the shelf. You do not have to decide at the start — both use the same data, so extending is added functionality rather than a new deployment.
One set of data, four kinds of work
The modules do not each keep their own version of the material. They show the same data from the angle that matters in each role.
Material planner — plans turned into need data, an approved product catalogue
Supplier — their own orders and schedules, and only their own
Logistics supervisor — people, spaces and equipment in the calendar
Worker — open tasks, notifications, goods receiving
Nobody has to ask whose information is the right one.
CALS Site Management and CALS Supply Chain Management are independent — take one, or both. CALS Warehouse Management is an extension of CALS Supply Chain Management. Licensing is per project and module, not per user, and the suppliers, warehouse and logistics partners in your project network use it at no cost. It is worth including everyone the information helps.
CALS is a tool, not a logistics service. It works with any logistics partner you choose, including your own organisation, and using it does not require buying a service alongside it.
Let’s start with scoping
The first conversation takes 30 minutes, and already tells you a lot about where your material flow is getting stuck.
