The quote is costed in one spreadsheet, the production plan hangs on a board, and only the foreman knows where each order stands. The system connects sales, planning, the shop floor and the warehouse into one flow.
Manufacturing
Inquiry U-0731
Each of these problems is the same thing: data doesn’t get from one place to the other, so someone carries it by hand.
Connection brokenUsage and hours flow back into costing
Quotes are priced from experience and old spreadsheets. What the job really cost shows up only after delivery, if at all.
Connection brokenDates offered from free machine time
Sales confirms a date, but nobody checked which machines and people are already booked. Rush orders then push everything else back.
Connection brokenOne valid BOM, with version history
Engineering has one, purchasing another, and the shop floor works from a third. A product change doesn’t reach everyone in time.
Connection brokenOrder status visible per operation
To find an order’s status you walk to the shop floor or call the foreman. Scrap and rework are noted on paper and never make it back into costing.
An example flow. We adapt the steps to how your company actually works.
Costing is built from the bill of materials, material prices and labour standards. The same calculation becomes the quote without retyping.
An accepted quote becomes an order with the agreed date. The system shows straight away whether there is capacity for that date.
The order generates work orders with operations, the bill of materials and technical documents. The shop floor gets the current version, not a copy from a drawer.
The system compares required material with stock and proposes purchasing for what is missing. Material is reserved for the order.
Work orders are scheduled across machines, lines and shifts. When a rush job comes in, you see at once which other orders will slip.
Operators report start, finish, quantities and scrap per operation on a shop floor terminal. Order status is visible without walking the floor.
Measurements, non-conformities and rework decisions are recorded against the order. Later you know what was checked, when and by whom.
Finished goods enter the warehouse linked to the customer’s order. The delivery note comes from what was actually produced and shipped.
Every module works with the same data. It plugs into the system instead of living as a separate program.
Multi-level BOMs, labour standards and material prices in one place. Planned versus actual cost for every order.
Machine and labour load by day. A plan that changes when the situation on the floor changes.
Operation-level reporting from terminals on the floor. Time, quantities and scrap enter the system as they happen.
Inspection records, non-conformities and the link between material and finished product. Complaints are answered from data.
Yes, as long as both ways of working are described as they really are. One-off orders and series can follow different flows while sharing the same materials, machines and warehouse.
Shop floor screens are built for the shop floor: few fields, large buttons and only what that operator needs. We agree on the screens with the people who will use them.
It depends on scope, the number of processes and integrations, so we don’t quote off the cuff. After a conversation and process analysis you get a system proposal and an individual quote.
Send us a short description of your process and the problems you want to solve.