From order to shipment, the whole factory on one record
From bills of materials to capacity, from shop-floor confirmation to actual cost; cloud ERP for metal, machinery, plastics and electrical equipment manufacturers.
A factory’s familiar pains, lasting answers
We move what planning, the shop floor and accounting each keep separately onto one record.
Nobody knows when a job will finish
Due dates live on a whiteboard or in a spreadsheet; when a machine breaks down, the whole plan is rewritten by hand.
Operations are scheduled forwards or backwards against work centre capacity, the plant’s working days and planned downtime; with finite capacity, fully loaded days are skipped. The capacity report shows how loaded each work centre is.
Missing material leaves orders half done
A component turns out to be missing once production starts; purchasing rushes at the last minute.
Requirements planning proposes planned orders and purchase requisitions from demand, stock and open orders. Component availability is checked when an order is released.
Shop-floor data arrives on paper
Quantities produced and material used are written on a form at shift end and keyed in the next day.
Operators scan the work order barcode on an Android shop-floor terminal and enter the confirmation. Material consumption, goods receipt and cost are written at once, to the same record as the office screens.
Subcontracting cost goes missing
Plating, heat treatment and painting are done outside; the subcontracting charge never reaches the product cost.
The subcontracted step is defined in the routing; its purchase order opens automatically, material at the subcontractor is tracked separately, the cost flows to the production order and scrap is reported.
Actual cost is unknown even at month-end
What a product really costs rests on a yearly estimate; quotes are based on guesswork.
Material, work centre activity, subcontracting and production overhead add up on the order; the variance against standard cost is posted at close. At period end, the cost of work in progress is posted to the balance sheet.
From order to cost, on one record
Each step uses the record of the one before; nothing is entered twice.
- 01
Order
Sales orders and stock requirements enter planning.
- 02
Planning
MRP proposes planned orders and purchase requisitions.
- 03
Scheduling
Operations are sequenced by capacity and working days.
- 04
Production and confirmation
Confirmation from the shop-floor terminal; consumption and goods receipt at once.
- 05
Close and cost
Actual cost, variance and work in progress in accounting.
What’s next for manufacturing
These capabilities are not in the product today; they are planned. Our customers’ needs set the order and timing — let’s talk in a demo.
Shift-based capacity
Work centre capacity calculated from the number of shifts and their hours; different shift patterns by department.
Moulds and fixtures
Assigning moulds to operations, shot counters and maintenance alerts based on tool life.
Delivery date promise
Calculating an achievable delivery date from stock and capacity while the order is being entered.
The modules that come together for manufacturing
All run on the same record; when one updates, the others know instantly.
- Production PlanningBills of materials, routings, MRP, scheduling, confirmation and subcontracting
- Procurement & InventoryPurchase requisitions, approved orders, three-way invoice matching
- Warehouse ManagementBarcoded units, storage bins, counting
- Quality ManagementInspection at goods receipt and production confirmation, usage decisions
- Costing & ControllingWork centre activity prices, order cost and variance reporting
- Finance & AccountingEvery goods movement and work in progress in accounting in the same transaction
What manufacturers ask
The most frequent questions before a demo.
Yes. The planning strategy is chosen per material and plant. For make-to-stock materials, demand is combined; for make-to-order materials, each order stays linked to its sales order, and the order screen shows quantities produced, in production and planned.
Operations are scheduled forwards or backwards against work centre capacity, the plant’s working days and planned downtime; with finite capacity, fully loaded days are skipped. Capacity calculated from the number of shifts isn’t available yet; it is on our roadmap.
Operators scan the work order barcode on an Android shop-floor terminal and enter the confirmation; partial and operation-level confirmations are supported. Each confirmation is written to the same record as the office screens.
Yes. The subcontracted step is defined in the routing; when the order is released, a purchase order for the subcontractor opens. Material sent is tracked at the subcontractor, and when the product comes back the subcontracting charge is written to the production order’s cost; scrap is reported for each order.
Yes. At period end, the cost accumulated on open orders is posted to the balance sheet as work in progress; when an order closes, the variance against standard cost is posted in the same transaction.
Yes. For materials under quality control, an inspection record opens with the production confirmation and the quantity produced waits in quality stock. A usage decision releases, blocks or scraps it; the scrap cost is posted to accounting in the same transaction.
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your own data
In a 30-minute demo, we set up your processes on Hadron together.