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Manufacturing

Production planning is only as good as your work-in-progress data

Most manufacturing ERP disappointment traces back to the same thing: the plan assumes a picture of the shop floor that stopped being true hours ago.

Overview

Manufacturing software lives or dies on how faithfully it reflects the floor. If recording a stage takes too long, it gets batched up and entered at the end of a shift, and every downstream decision is made on stale data. We design capture to fit the physical process, then build planning, costing and procurement on top of numbers people trust because they recognise them.

Industry Challenges

Where the cost usually sits

The recurring problems we are asked to solve in this sector.

  • Stale work-in-progress data

    Production status entered late, so planning runs on yesterday's picture.

  • Inventory drift

    Recorded stock and physical stock separating over time.

  • Costing after the fact

    True job cost only becoming visible once the month closes.

  • Quality outside the system

    Inspection recorded on paper, disconnected from the batch it relates to.

  • Multi-site coordination

    Branches, outlets and factories operating on separate data.

What We Build

Manufacturing solutions

  • Production planning

    Scheduling against real capacity, materials and work-in-progress.

  • Inventory management

    Stock, batches and movements tracked at the level the process needs.

  • Procurement

    Requisition to purchase order to receipt, connected to demand.

  • Quality assurance

    Digital inspection tied to batches, with defects traceable to source.

  • Costing and margin

    Job costing visible during the job, not after it.

  • Sales and distribution

    Order to dispatch, connected to production and stock.

Example Workflows

How the work flows through the system

  1. Order to production plan

    Confirmed orders scheduled against capacity and material availability.

  2. Issue to work-in-progress

    Material issued and stage completion captured where the work happens.

  3. Inspection to release

    Quality checks recorded against the batch before it can be dispatched.

  4. Dispatch to invoice

    Delivery, documentation and invoicing driven from the same records.

Capabilities

  • Production planning and scheduling
  • Work-in-progress tracking
  • Inventory and batch management
  • Procurement workflows
  • Quality assurance and inspection
  • Job costing
  • Sales and distribution
  • Multi-site operations
  • Operational dashboards

Integrates with

  • Accounting and finance systems
  • Barcode and scanning hardware
  • Shop-floor data capture
  • Logistics providers
  • Customer and supplier portals

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Building for manufacturing?

Tell us what the process looks like today and where it costs you. We will come back with an approach and an honest view of the effort involved.