The order is sold. Now who decides what the floor builds first?
Production planning and control built around how your factory actually schedules work priority, material availability, capacity and delivery dates rather than around a software vendor's idea of a production line.
Most factories plan on a whiteboard and a phone call.
Work orders arrive from sales. Someone decides which ones go first. Someone else checks whether the material is in. A third person finds out on Thursday that a job promised for Friday is short two components.
It works, because experienced people make it work. But it lives in their heads, it can't be queried, and nobody can answer "what is actually running right now" without walking onto the floor to look.
Every factory has a production plan. In most of them it isn't written down anywhere a second person could read it.
WHAT IT DOES From work order to dispatch, in one system
Work order → material planning → purchase → goods receipt → incoming QC → inventory allocation → production scheduling → floor loading → production → production QC → dispatch planning → delivery note → dispatch
01 . PRIORITY Work order priority that everyone can see.
Orders classified by urgency immediate, medium, planned later with a mandatory reason recorded whenever a priority changes. The whiteboard becomes an audit trail.
02 . MATERIAL PLANNING Material planning against real stock.
Requirements calculated from the multi-level bill of materials, checked against what's actually available and what's already reserved for another order.
03 . CAPACITY Capacity and loading plans.
Work allocated across the floor against available capacity, so a delivery date is a calculation rather than a hope.
04 . QUALITY CONTROL Quality control at both ends.
Incoming inspection on raw material with acceptance, rejection and inspector remarks recorded; production QC on finished goods with sampling logic, before anything clears for dispatch.
05 . DISPATCH Dispatch that waits for the right approvals.
Final QC, delivery note, finance verification and admin approval so nothing ships to a customer whose account or paperwork isn't in order.
06 . DASHBOARDS Dashboards per department.
Active orders, priority mix, material shortages, delayed jobs, loading status, QC queue, reserved and diverted stock. Live, not compiled on a Monday.
Not everyone should see everything.
A production planner needs the bill of materials, the quantity and the delivery date. They do not need the customer's name, the selling price or the margin.
Sales needs the customer, the quotation and the order. They do not need the raw material cost, the vendor pricing or the internal BOQ grouping that produced the number.
Most production systems treat access control as an afterthought. We build it as a design constraint: once a quotation becomes a work order, the floor sees the work order number, the product, the quantity, the delivery date and the priority. Nothing else.
Your costing structure is the most commercially sensitive thing in the business. It shouldn't be one click away from every terminal on the shop floor.
When stock made for one customer goes to another
It happens in every factory. Fifty units built for one order, and an urgent customer takes them.
Usually that's a verbal decision and a note in a spreadsheet, and the consequence surfaces weeks later when the original order is short.
The system records the diversion which order, which quantity, who approved it, and why updates the plan automatically, and triggers reproduction so the first customer's order goes back into the schedule the same day rather than being discovered late.
Your accounting system
stays where it is
Invoicing belongs in your finance system, not in a production tool. We synchronise what needs to travel proforma invoices, approved commercial data, tax details, dispatch information and leave the rest alone.
We integrate with SAP, Microsoft Dynamics Business Central, Odoo, DATEV and older systems without supported connectors. Where the configuration originates in a product configurator we've built, the work order arrives with the bill of materials already attached and nothing re-keyed.
Drawings and specifications, attached to the order
CAD files, product drawings, customer reference images, technical PDFs and QC records upload against the work order and documents from sales require production approval before planning starts, so nobody builds from a superseded drawing.
What it costs and how long it takes
Projects start from €25,000. Scope depends on how many of the stages above you need and what has to connect to it a planning and scheduling module is a shorter build than the full chain from lead to dispatch.
Projects start from €25,000
No licence fees, no per-user charges
Source code sits in escrow securely
Frequently asked
No. In most projects the ERP stays exactly where it is and we build the planning layer around it, integrating rather than replacing.
Yes. Where we've built the configurator, the work order arrives with its bill of materials attached nothing re-keyed between the sale and the floor.
Yes, and we recommend it. Role-based visibility is built in: production and QC work from the work order number, product, quantity, delivery date and priority, without access to pricing or customer commercial data.
Yes, including on older equipment. We retrofit existing machines for shop-floor and machine data collection rather than replacing them.
Yes. Most clients start with the piece that hurts most usually scheduling or material planning and extend from there.
Show us how you schedule a week.
Thirty minutes. Walk us through how work gets prioritised on your floor today, including the part where somebody overrides the plan.
We'll tell you honestly what could be systematised and what shouldn't be.
You run the factory. Leave the software to us.