Is this actually running somewhere?

Not in a manufacturing business, no. The module is built and the platform around it is in production, but you would be the first factory on it. That should be reflected in the commercial terms, and we will raise it before you do.

Do you handle multi-level BOMs and routings?

No. A bill of material points at raw materials, not at another sub-assembly, and there is no routing or work-centre model — machines and shifts attach to the run as a whole. Single-level assembly is well covered; deep multi-stage production is not.

Adjacent — we have the machinery

What did that batch actually cost to make?

Most small manufacturers can tell you what they sold a product for. Far fewer can tell you what it cost — with materials, labour and machine time on the same line — before the accountant closes the month.

We have built a production module: bills of material, raw-material stock, production runs that consume components and produce finished goods with a batch number, machines, shifts, a production planner, and a cost breakdown that compares estimated against actual. It is built and it works. It is not yet live with a manufacturing customer — so treat this as software we can show you and configure, not a reference we can point at.

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Sound familiar?

A week in this business.

If three or more of these are true, the problem is usually not the tools. It is that none of them talk to each other.

The costing lives in a spreadsheet that one person maintains
You find out a job lost money after it shipped
Raw material runs out mid-run because nothing reserved it
Scrap and rework are absorbed silently rather than measured
Quoting a new order means guessing, then hoping

What we’d build

The parts that matter here.

Bills of material with components, quantities and overhead percentage

Raw-material stock as an append-only ledger, so movements are traceable

Production runs that snapshot the BOM at release, so later edits do not rewrite history

Material consumed on allocation and completion, against the run

Finished goods produced with a batch number and a movement trail

Machines with depreciation, and shifts with labour cost, costed into the run

Estimated-versus-actual unit cost with variance, and cost-plus suggested pricing

A production planner across the working calendar

Which route

Configure something proven, or build it?

Most vendors answer this the way that suits them. Here is how it usually goes in this sector — and we will tell you plainly which side you are on.

Open-source ERP

Usually faster and cheaper

A reasonable path if you want a broad ERP around the production module and can work the way it works.

How we do this

Custom build

When the standard parts run out

Our module already covers BOM, runs, batch costing and planning. If that is the shape of your problem, configuring it is faster than implementing a package — and you get the costing detail without a manufacturing licence tier.

How we do this

Questions

Is this actually running somewhere?: Not in a manufacturing business, no. The module is built and the platform around it is in production, but you would be the first factory on it. That should be reflected in the commercial terms, and we will raise it before you do.
Do you handle multi-level BOMs and routings?: No. A bill of material points at raw materials, not at another sub-assembly, and there is no routing or work-centre model — machines and shifts attach to the run as a whole. Single-level assembly is well covered; deep multi-stage production is not.

Other sectors

Optical retail Non-profits & associations Finance & accounting operations Schools & education Retail & e-commerce Logistics & trucking Wholesale & distribution Clinics & diagnostics HR & payroll

Tell us what isn’t working.

Thirty minutes, no deck. We’ll tell you what we would do — and say so plainly if software isn’t the answer.

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